Paramedic Practitioner in Sunbury-on-Thames

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Paramedic to join our friendly and supportive GP practice team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within primary care, delivering high-quality acute same day care and supporting our dedicated home visiting service as part of a team of three Paramedics. The successful candidate will play a key role in assessing, treating, and managing patients with urgent but non-emergency clinical needs, helping to improve access to care and support continuity for our patient population.

Main duties of the job

• Provide autonomous clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for patients presenting with acute same day problems.
• Undertake home visits for housebound and vulnerable patients as part of the practice visiting team.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, reception staff, pharmacists, and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Manage a varied caseload safely and effectively within scope of practice.
• Support care planning, admission avoidance, and appropriate onward referrals.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records using the practice clinical system.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives within the practice.

About us

Sunbury Health Centre Group Practice is a well-established, forward-thinking training practice providing high-quality care to a growing population of approximately 19,300 patients in a pleasant Surrey location with excellent transport links. We are proud of our friendly, supportive, and genuinely collaborative team culture, where multidisciplinary working is valued and staff wellbeing is prioritised. Our experienced clinical team includes 6 GP Partners, 6 Salaried GPs, GP Registrars, Prescribing ANPs, Paramedics, Clinical Pharmacists & Practice Nurses. We have a team of HCAs & Phlebotomists alongside a highly skilled and approachable management and administrative team. As a training practice rated Good in all areas by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), we are committed to continuous learning, innovation, and delivering excellent patient care. We are consistently high QOF achievers and have developed strong working relationships with the local ICB and GP Federation, enabling us to play an active role in delivering services across the wider healthcare community. We pride ourselves on fostering a positive working environment where clinicians are supported to develop their skills, work autonomously, and contribute meaningfully as part of an integrated primary care team.

Job responsibilities

• Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the practice team.
• Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services.
• Participate in all treatment and preventative healthcare services in the Practice as delegated and agreed by the supervising GP(s).
• Provide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines.
• Consult and refer patients to physicians, medical specialists and other health professionals as indicated.
• Interview patients, take medical histories, perform physical examinations, analyse, diagnose and explain medical problems during home visits.
• Perform specialist health checks and reviews.
• Perform investigatory procedures as required.
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc.
• Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain community services (e.g. monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients living in sheltered housing).
• Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice.
• Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
• Help work on practice QOF domains and some selected chronic disease targets.

Quality Requirements

• Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, and impart own knowledge and skills to colleagues to meet the needs of the service.
• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

Administrative requirements

• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues.
• Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.
• Review and process data using accurate read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.

Supervision

The post holder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the practice to provide general advice and support on a day to day basis.

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
• Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.
• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder's role.
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually).
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights. The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk. Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision. Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team's performance. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Experience: We are looking for a motivated clinician who:

• Is a qualified Paramedic registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Has experience in urgent care, community care, primary care, or emergency medicine.
• Demonstrates excellent communication and clinical decision-making skills.
• Is confident working independently while also valuing teamwork.
• Has a compassionate, patient-centred approach.
• Holds a full UK driving licence.
• Experience working in Primary Care, aware of common chronic and acute illnesses in a GP setting.
• Evidence of working across organizational boundaries within health and social care.
• Independent thinker with good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• BSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics.
• Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration.
• Able to operate at an advanced level of clinical practice.
• Full UK driving license.
• Pre-reg MSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics.

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.