Job summary
MIAA Solutions is advertising the above on behalf of Knowsley Central and South Primary Care Network, who are seeking to recruit a Community Paramedic on a full time basis.
Location: Across all South and Central Knowsley Primary Care Network Practices
Salary:£50,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
Main duties of the job
Paramedics work autonomously within the community using their enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills, to provide first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems relating to minor illness or injury, abdominal pains, chest pains and headaches. They are health professionals who have the capability to make sound judgements in the absence of full information and to manage varying degrees of risk when there are complex, competing or ambiguous information or uncertainty.
About us
Knowsley Provider Alliance (KPA) are a 12 Practice Federation covering the majority of Knowsley.
Our key aim is to work collaboratively together and with Health, Social Care and the Voluntary and Faith sectors in Knowsley, deliver excellent and sustainable Primary Care.
This Federation aims to develop these partnerships further to include a plan to integrate fully with our colleagues, and have better shared understanding, leading to improved services as one example of a measurable outcome.
The approach we aim will help to lessen the divide between services, while allowing each to focus on the patient more acutely.
Our values are to provide quality, safety and excellence in everything we do for the Local Community, Patients and our Employees alike.
KPA are proud to offer its employees a work ethic based upon training and developing existing skills, together with full support and development for both Administrative and Clinical job roles, thus creating the wellbeing and retention of our team. You will also have clearly defined Line Management and full Human Resources support.
Once you join our team, we offer professional Onboarding and Induction. We want you to feel inclusive, with our strong belief to help you integrate and work effectively.
The structure of our KPA further demonstrates its values by offering you a full NHS Pension and Terms of Engagement which are a reflection of the importance to make our team feel valued.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be able to work as part of a team to achieve complex and difficult tasks;
- Conduct dynamic risk assessments when attending to patients and call for support when required;
- Carry out triage assessments of patients and provide the appropriate level of care;
- Look after and maintain your equipment in preparation for operational-readiness prior to each shift;
- Be able to work collaboratively with other members of the emergency services and NHS staff at hospitals, care homes and otherwise;
- Be prepared to carry out mundane and repetitive tasks
- Be selfless in your work and abide by the Ambulance Trust NHS Values at all times;
- Carry out ongoing Continuous Professional Development throughout your career and be able to take onboard constructive criticism.
- You will be required to assess and triage requests from patients for home visits, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN team or community services (ie frailty team);
- Provide advice to patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services.
Be able to competently & confidently:
- perform specialist health checks and reviews
- perform and interpret ECGs; alongside other results as appropriate
- perform investigatory procedures as required
- undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc.
- perform investigatory procedures needed by patients and those requested by GPs and the wider PCN
- prescribe appropriate medications in line with patient need and following consultation
- Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain community services (e.g. monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients living in sheltered housing);
- Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day home visits for the PCN and undertake clinical audits using the EMIS clinical system;
- Communicate at all levels across PCNs and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centred service;
- Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required;
- Collaborate with other members of the PCN including doctors, nurses and other AHPs, accepting referrals and referring to them for specialist care;
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice;
- Prescribe, issue and review medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways. This will be done in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice;
- Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments;
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions;
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs;
- Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly;
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care;
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan;
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
Quality Requirements
- enhance own performance through continuous professional development, keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, and impart own knowledge and skills to PCN colleagues to meet the needs of the service;
- be verified against the paramedic primary care roadmap;
- recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics;
- assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation;
- participate in research and utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required;
- in partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
Administrative requirements
- produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures;
- be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a PCN;
- use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information;
- review and process data using accurate read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.
Supervision
- The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the PCN to provide general advice and support on a day to day basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be able to work as part of a team to achieve complex and difficult tasks;
- Conduct dynamic risk assessments when attending to patients and call for support when required;
- Carry out triage assessments of patients and provide the appropriate level of care;
- Look after and maintain your equipment in preparation for operational-readiness prior to each shift;
- Be able to work collaboratively with other members of the emergency services and NHS staff at hospitals, care homes and otherwise;
- Be prepared to carry out mundane and repetitive tasks
- Be selfless in your work and abide by the Ambulance Trust NHS Values at all times;
- Carry out ongoing Continuous Professional Development throughout your career and be able to take onboard constructive criticism.
- You will be required to assess and triage requests from patients for home visits, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN team or community services (ie frailty team);
- Provide advice to patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services.
Be able to competently & confidently:
- perform specialist health checks and reviews
- perform and interpret ECGs; alongside other results as appropriate
- perform investigatory procedures as required
- undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc.
- perform investigatory procedures needed by patients and those requested by GPs and the wider PCN
- prescribe appropriate medications in line with patient need and following consultation
- Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain community services (e.g. monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients living in sheltered housing);
- Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day home visits for the PCN and undertake clinical audits using the EMIS clinical system;
- Communicate at all levels across PCNs and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centred service;
- Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required;
- Collaborate with other members of the PCN including doctors, nurses and other AHPs, accepting referrals and referring to them for specialist care;
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice;
- Prescribe, issue and review medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways. This will be done in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice;
- Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments;
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions;
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs;
- Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly;
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care;
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan;
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
Quality Requirements
- enhance own performance through continuous professional development, keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, and impart own knowledge and skills to PCN colleagues to meet the needs of the service;
- be verified against the paramedic primary care roadmap;
- recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics;
- assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation;
- participate in research and utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required;
- in partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
Administrative requirements
- produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures;
- be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a PCN;
- use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information;
- review and process data using accurate read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.
Supervision
- The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the PCN to provide general advice and support on a day to day basis.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics
- Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
- able to operate at an advanced level of clinical practice
- Framework for Higher Education Qualification (FHEQ) Level 7 or Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCOF) Level 11
Desirable
- Pre-reg MSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics
- non-medical prescribing qualification
- Full UK driving license
- Evidence of verification against the paramedic primary care roadmap
Experience
Essential
- Experience in managing a designated caseload using theoretical and practical experience, completing assessments, planning, implementing interventions, and evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans
- Working knowledge of Microsoft and GP practice and prescribing data monitoring systems
- Ability to write comprehensive clinical notes, implement and evaluate care plans
Desirable
- Working towards advanced clinical practitioner status
- mentorship or supervisory skills training
- Ability to undertake nails surgery assessments, procedure and post-operative care
- Be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a PCN
- Cognitive behavioural and motivational interviewing approaches / skills
Analysis Skills
Essential
- Ability to evidence a sound understanding of the NHS principles and values
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex/ often incomplete information, preempt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues
Desirable
- Experience of working within a primary care setting
- Evidence of working across organisational boundaries within health and social care
- Independent thinker with good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics
- Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
- able to operate at an advanced level of clinical practice
- Framework for Higher Education Qualification (FHEQ) Level 7 or Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCOF) Level 11
Desirable
- Pre-reg MSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics
- non-medical prescribing qualification
- Full UK driving license
- Evidence of verification against the paramedic primary care roadmap
Experience
Essential
- Experience in managing a designated caseload using theoretical and practical experience, completing assessments, planning, implementing interventions, and evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans
- Working knowledge of Microsoft and GP practice and prescribing data monitoring systems
- Ability to write comprehensive clinical notes, implement and evaluate care plans
Desirable
- Working towards advanced clinical practitioner status
- mentorship or supervisory skills training
- Ability to undertake nails surgery assessments, procedure and post-operative care
- Be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a PCN
- Cognitive behavioural and motivational interviewing approaches / skills
Analysis Skills
Essential
- Ability to evidence a sound understanding of the NHS principles and values
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex/ often incomplete information, preempt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues
Desirable
- Experience of working within a primary care setting
- Evidence of working across organisational boundaries within health and social care
- Independent thinker with good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
