Home First Paramedic- Surrey Downs H&C

NHS; Epsom; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job description

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

The service provides joined up, coordinated care to local citizens with health and social care needs and aims to support them to live as independently as possible by offering rapid multidisciplinary assessment and support at times of crisis. The team offers a crisis response assessment within 2 hours of referral and, to mitigate the risk of a hospital admission, provides service users with a short-term, high intensity package of care in the person's own home as an alternative to hospital admission. We have developed a 3-locality based approach to service delivery, with opportunities to be based within our Dorking, East Elmbridge or Epsom Urgent Community Response services. The teams provide a 7 day/week service from 8am to 8pm.

Main duties of the job

Post holders will be working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team including Nurses, GPs, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Support Workers, Healthcare Assistants and Administrators as well as Adult Social Care and the voluntary sector. The post holder will be working across acute hospital (Emergency Department) and community.

Paramedics have a key role within both supported discharge and prevention of admission to support individuals to optimise their independence and wellbeing.

Job responsibilities

To have clinical responsibility for assessment and treatment planning for adults referred from community as well as active case finding within the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit as required.

The post holder will work autonomously and in collaboration with all members of the Surrey Downs Health and Care team to deliver a safe, comprehensive and effective service including assessment, care planning, implementation of required care and review of care provision.

To work with individual patients, their carers and their families, involving them in decision making about their care and to develop their own health and care plans.

Carry out proactive holistic assessments to create care plans to help reduce risk of future hospital admission.

To assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment / interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.

Demonstrate clinical expertise and act as a professional role model to all colleagues, both internal and external on behalf of SDHC, working as part of an integrated team taking the lead and developing services in line with the needs of the patient.

To ensure that accurate and complete records of care are kept and that your own practice and practice of other team members is compliant with agreed policies, procedures, guidance and legislation in order to deliver effective patient care.

To supervise junior colleagues and assistants.

To assist in the overall development of integrated care pathways within Surrey Downs Health and Care.

To collaborate with colleagues across Surrey Downs Health and Care and within the wider health and social care network to optimise patient journey, care, wellbeing and outcomes.

To participate in flexible working patterns covering extended hours across a seven day service.

Person Specification

Other

• Car driver with access to car for work

Education and Qualification

• HCPC Paramedic Registration
• Advanced clinical practice or working towards

Experience

• Multidisciplinary team working
• Experience in managing the needs of complex patients in relevant care setting, i.e. community or unscheduled care
• Experience in supervising, mentoring and appraising staff
• Experience of undertaking clinical audit & evaluation

Skills/ability/knowledge

• Holistic and effective Assessment skills
• Understand current trends in health and social care
• Ability to work under pressure, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Able to demonstrate evidence based clinical practice

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.

Salary: £42,939 to £50,697 a year Pro Rata Per Annum inc Outer HCAS