Paramedic

Job Summary

• You will provide a specialist paramedic resource as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. Just as important are your listening and team skills, along with your caring and compassionate nature.
• Working across a group of practices, you will work as an autonomous, accountable paramedic providing holistic care whilst assessing, diagnosing and providing treatment to patients; or referring / directing to other services.
• To promote self-care and educate service users to allow them to be empowered to make informed choices about treatment.
• You will work with patients to reach shared decisions about how to support people minimize the impact of their condition(s) on their life, especially for older people and those with multiple co-morbidities.
• You will ensure that, where applicable, responses integrate with community and hospital services.
• You will be passionate about and supported in clinical learning and professional development through a structured programme of education and support.
• Peer-support will be provided from within the multi-disciplinary team, supported by the GP supervisors.
• An enhanced DBS check will be carried out for all successful candidates.
• You will be expected to travel between named practices and meetings across the patch.
• You must have a full driving license with suitable insurance and access to a suitable vehicle.

Key Responsibilities and Clinical Duties

• To support people to live and die well, minimizing the impact of their condition on their life.
• To ensure that patients make informed choices about their care and that shared decisions are made based on an understanding of their context.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care of patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions.
• Patients requiring care and onward referral to secondary care to be discussed with the available GP.
• To see patients within their own home and care home setting and in clinics.
• To develop care plans for patients when required.
• Maintain clinical knowledge and practice to known capabilities and competencies.
• Ensure registration and qualifications with the Health and Care Professionals Council is maintained.
• Prescribe/issue medications with suitable prescribing training and supervision.
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens with appropriate training and supervision.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous and concise electronic records.
• Involve in ongoing education and improvement work.
• To work collaboratively alongside administration staff.
• Provide professional input to named practice teams and network multidisciplinary teams.
• Liaise across providers to ensure accurate and effective medication management.
• Provide direct care to patients with long-term conditions.
• Support the care of complex patients in their own homes.
• Discuss patients with complex needs at local MDT meetings.
• Provide professional telephone and email advice and support to patients and their carers.
• To ensure adequate and appropriate indemnity is in place.

Administration

• Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team.
• Ensure all necessary paperwork and registration documentation is completed and kept up to date.
• Comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act and other relevant legislation.
• Be aware of responsibilities under the Health Act 2008 Code of Practice.
• To provide Home Visits for the PCN practices.
• To provide Care Home support as required.
• To provide emergency support as required.

Training / Educational Development

• Ensure continuing education, training and development is undertaken.
• Keep up to date with relevant medical research and evidence-based medical practice.
• Attend regular multi-disciplinary meetings organised by practices.
• Regularly reflect on own practice to identify learning needs.

Key Relationships

• Patients and their families / Carers
• GP, nurses and other practice staff
• Other healthcare professionals
• Primary Care Network Leads
• Community and Hospital teams

Key Outcomes

• Provide care closer to home.
• Reduce and/or maintain a reasonable level of Non-Elective admissions.
• Integration of community services to help provide seamless service.
• Improve productivity within primary care.
• Increase capacity within primary care.
• Reduce pressures of GP workload.

Other Conditions:

Communication

• Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, and providers.
• Be polite and courteous at all times.
• Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication.

Confidentiality

The post-holder must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients and comply with the Data Protection Act.

Equal Opportunities

K&W Healthcare Ltd. ensures no job applicant or employee receives less than favourable treatment on unjustifiable grounds.

Health and Safety

• Employees must be aware of responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
• Report any potential risks identified.

Data Protection and the Access to Health Records

The post holder will comply with the Data Protection Act and the Access to Health Records Act.

No Smoking Policy

The company has a strict No Smoking Policy.

Personal and Professional Development

• Participate in any training programme implemented by the company.
• Take responsibility for their own development, learning and performance.

Quality

• Alert team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for actions.

Flexibility

The company expects all staff to develop flexible working practices.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £39,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Brent, Greater London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Licence/Certification:

• HCPC registration (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)