Paramedic Practitioner

One Health Lewisham have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Paramedic Practitioner to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.

You will be supporting the GP Home Visiting Service, Clinical Streaming at University Hospital Lewisham Emergency Department, NHS@Home (Virtual Ward) service and HIU (High Intensity Users) service - the list is not exhaustive, and services you are assigned to may change in line with commissioning decisions. You will need to have at least 5 years experience post HCPC registration to be considered. One Health Lewisham are also willing to sponsor your ACP qualification.

Main duties of the job

The Paramedic Practitioner will be responsible for triaging patients, performing investigative procedures when required and sign-posting patients to the appropriate community service. You will bring your clinical assessment skills, ability to diagnose and treat patients, as well as your enthusiasm to the role.

A full list of duties can be found in the job description attached.

To succeed you will:

• Be flexible, respectful and compassionate with the ability to work autonomously or as part of a team;
• Have the desire to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions;
• Be passionate about providing access to care for patients;
• Aspire to improve long term care for house bound patients with chronic conditions;
• Have at least 5 years' experience post HCPC registration, FCP qualified or willing to work towards.

About us

One Health Lewisham (OHL) is the integrated community provider working across SEL, delivering a variety of innovative services for patients supporting practices and PCNs.

We are a forward-thinking innovation partner, striving to develop streamlined and transformative pathways which support the wider integrated care system. We are passionate about our mission to provide the best possible care for our patients, and we work hard to support and develop our team to strive for excellence. We are a fast-growing organisation, providing a range of services which are fully integrated into primary care. We deliver specialist support to some of the most complex patients in the system through our Special Allocation Service contract across all boroughs in South-East London and North East London ICSs.

We also provide a range of services across Lewisham including:

• Urgent Care Centre at Lewisham Hospital;
• NHS Health Checks Programme;
• Home Visiting Service, led by our experienced team of paramedics;
• Enhanced Care Home Service;
• NHS@Home Service (Virtual Ward) - We are leading the way in SEL by embedding technology at the heart of this service;
• and more.

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week (FTE).

Pay: £58,000 per annum.

For more information, take a look at the job description attached.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Job responsibilities

The Paramedic Practitioner will be responsible for triaging patients, performing investigative procedures when required and sign-posting patients to the appropriate community service. You will bring your clinical assessment skills, ability to diagnose and treat patients, as well as your enthusiasm to the role.

Person Specification

General Requirements

• Please refer to job description attached.
• Please refer to job description attached.

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.