Paramedic in Colchester

Creffield Medical Group PCN are looking to recruit a Paramedic to join the team on a 12 month fixed term contract (initially).

This is offered on a full or part-time basis for between 30-37 hours per week.

The main responsibilities of the role include

• Deliver a high standard of patient care as a Paramedic Practitioner within the practice, using advanced autonomous clinical skills and a broad, in-depth theoretical knowledge base.
• Manage a clinical caseload, dealing with presenting patient’s needs within a primary care setting, ensuring patient choice and ease of access to services.
• See patients with minor illness complaints
• Support the duty team within the practice.
• Mentor and support staff in developing and maintaining clinical skills.
• Provide a first point of contact within the Practice for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosis and management plan.
• Provide assessment, treatment and diagnosis at point of first contact, by attending to patients in a variety of clinical or non-clinical settings according to patient’s needs.
• Undertake home visits, in accordance with the relevant protocols.
• Make professionally autonomous decisions for which he/she is accountable.
• Refer patients to an alternative care setting or treat & discharge as appropriate.
• Instigate necessary invasive/non-invasive diagnostic tests/investigations and interpret findings/reports.
• Prescribe safely and effectively using ICB formulary and national guidelines and within your personal formulary, once prescribing qualification has been achieved.
• Ensure that professional standards are maintained and within the guidance issued by the Do H (Department of Health), the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) and the College of Paramedics (COP)
• Ensure that there is a robust system in place for maintaining clinical governance.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams within the Practice and across the broader healthcare community, to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care.
• Contribute to the Practice achieving its quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery.
• Participate in the assessment of community health needs and help to develop patient and family-centred strategies to address them.
• Help to develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services.
• Act as the emergency care practitioners for the practice, reviewing emergency protocols and providing updates and training to staff as appropriate.
• About the Candidate

If you are an experienced emergency care practitioner (ECP) / paramedic wanting a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.

You will have the following skills and experience

• Be a registered paramedic, with current HCPC registration and have post-registration experience, ideally with some being in primary care.
• Have completed ENP/ ECP Minor Injuries and Minor Illness course Level 6 and be a ALS/APLS provider.
• 5 years post qualification experience.
• Be able to effectively assess, plan, treat and refer patients.
• Be able to evaluate patient care confidently.
• Have experience of working to protocols and guidelines.
• To exhibit excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Have the ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively.

About Us

Creffield Medical Group was formed in June 2017, it is an amalgamation of Creffield Medical Centre, Layer Road Surgery, Turner Road Surgery and North Hill Medical Group and we have 30,000 patients.

Colchester is an historic, vibrant town with quick road and rail links to London Liverpool Street.

It houses one of Europe’s finest zoos, a Norman Castle, beautifully maintained parks, an active theatre scene and new modern art gallery.

The local grammar schools are amongst the best in the country and the local area is surrounded by beautiful countryside including ‘Constable country’ in nearby Dedham.

Mersea Island, Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea offer excellent oysters, beaches and sailing within a short drive.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.