Paramedic Practitioner in Bexhill-on-Sea

This is an opportunity to join an established friendly team of GPs, Nurses, and Healthcare Assistants. The role will provide a specialist resource as an advanced paramedic practitioner for our patients working with clinicians, nursing team and in collaboration with other members of the practice multidisciplinary teams. We have two sites in Bexhill, one in Sidley and the other in Albert Road, Bexhill Town Centre.

As part of the team you will work within our practice community, as an autonomous, accountable paramedic practitioner providing holistic care whilst assessing, diagnosing and providing treatment to patients using competent and up to date clinical skills. We promote self-care and educate service users to allow them to be empowered to make informed choices about treatment. The successful candidate will need to hold a full driving licence with suitable insurance and access to a suitable vehicle. Mileage is claimed back at the standard BMA Committee Rate currently set at 45 pence per mile.

Main duties of the job:

• Minor illness assessment, diagnosis and treatment with access to seek advice, review and onward referral within clinical teams at Sidley Medical Practice.
• Providing care to patients on domicile visits and to develop skills within triage and telephone consultations.
• Patients requiring care and onward referral to secondary care to be discussed with available GP and this process to be reviewed ongoing with the Partners.
• To develop care plans for patients when required and to be involved with the continuity of care of our patients such as in end of life care, chronic disease management as developed and supervised with the Partners.
• Prescribe/issue medications with suitable prescribing training and supervision and within patient group directives.
• Assess, diagnose, treat, refer or direct to other services; our patients who attend surgery or request domicile visits relating to unscheduled minor conditions, injuries or acute illness.
• Undertake wound management within competencies and resources available & the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood sampling, point of care testing and swab collection.

At Sidley Medical Practice we have a well established team of clinicians providing excellent care to our patients. We want to enhance the team further with the inclusion of a paramedic practitioner to work alongside the GPs. We are part of the Bexhill PCN and as such are developing processes to provide enhanced support to patients in the community and create additional clinical pathways to create increased local options for referral, treatment and support.

Staff at Sidley Medical Practice have a very strong work ethic and always seek to do the best for patients. Our Paramedic practitioner will be an excellent addition to our multiskilled team and allow us the flexibility of providing the right care at the right time by the most appropriate clinician.

There is also the senior management team including the Practice Manager, Operations Manager, HR Manager, Rota and QOF Manager and Assistant Finance Manager.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintain clinical knowledge and practice to known capabilities and competencies.
• Ensure registration and qualifications with the Health and Care Professionals Council is maintained.
• To undertake wound management within competencies and resources available.
• To maintain accurate, contemporaneous and concise electronic records within the practice.
• Involve in ongoing education within the practice and to support and provide training to staff members as identified.
• Participate in annual appraisal with audit as identified and to develop and maintain Continuous Professional Development plans.
• To work collaboratively alongside reception and administration staff and to ensure that service user needs are met.
• To ensure you have adequate and appropriate indemnity in place.

Confidentiality:

In the course of service user contacts, patients entrust us to gather sensitive material in relation to their physical and mental health needs. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

Equality and Diversity:

You will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues to include acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights and interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and current legislation.

Person Specification:

• Paramedic Practitioner - at least 1 year
• HCPC registration
• Be verified against the paramedic primary care roadmap

Experience:

Experience of working in Primary Care and / or a GP Practice.

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.