Practice Paramedic/Home Visiting in Felixstowe

Main duties of the job include treating both housebound and care home patients across 2 surgeries, leading on various vaccination campaigns, completing referrals where applicable, monitoring long term conditions, and working closely with GPs/debriefing following home visits. The home visiting team consists of paramedics and a community HCA.

About us: Haven Health and Howard House surgeries work collaboratively, enabling doctors and staff to share resources, ensuring the continued delivery of high-quality healthcare. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and encourage applications from all qualified individuals.

Benefits include:

• Defined benefits scheme
• Life insurance
• Family benefits, including adult dependents & children's pensions
• Ill health benefits
• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Fully comprehensive insurance, servicing, tyres & breakdown cover
• Up to £2,000 annual SPC contribution (subject to conditions)

Additional Benefits:

• Health service discounts, including a complimentary Blue Light Card for new starters
• Minimum 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) for full-time employees, with enhancements for long service
• Enhanced maternity & paternity terms
• Salary sacrifice schemes for technology, homewares (Currys, John Lewis, Decathlon), cycling, and gym memberships

Job responsibilities include providing high-quality clinical excellence to the patients of Haven Health and Howard House GP surgeries; diagnosing and prescribing treatments and medication while working within defined procedures and protocols as laid down by the GPs. The role involves working as part of a clinical team, with paramedics, GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, and Healthcare Assistants across both practices, alongside non-clinical team members.

The post holder will be responsible for seeing patients across two practice sites, care homes, and visiting patients in their place of residence, who present with a wide range of minor illness, urgent and same day requests for treatment, and chronic disease management; providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care. The post holder will need to demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, prioritising and triaging the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Ensure all medical notes are written contemporaneously and succinctly.
• Provide assessment, diagnosis, and treatment at first point of contact by attending to patients according to their needs in the patient homes/Care homes.
• Act as an autonomous clinician, with support and guidance from the GPs.
• Proactively identify, diagnose, and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate).
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in emergency situations, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical and drug history.
• Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Telephone triage as appropriate for clinics and home visits and care home ward rounds and provide access to GPs as necessary.
• Evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral, including admission to hospital if required.
• Signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway and refer patients to appropriate care settings, within locally agreed healthcare pathways.
• Maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient interactions and clinical care provided, including adverse events.
• Advise and support members of the public on healthy lifestyles, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• Provide clinical advice to other members of the team where appropriate.
• Possibility to work in the clinic setting as required.
• Any other duties within the scope of the post holder as requested by the management team.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Registered Paramedic, Systmone Trained
• Experience: Ideally with previous experience of working in Primary Care, although this does not preclude those having worked in secondary care.

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.