This Paramedic Practitioner post sits at Selsdon Park Medical Practice, a training practice serving 17,500 patients and working as a multidisciplinary team with GPs, pharmacists and nurses. The work centres on minor ailment clinics, acute home visits and monitoring patients with long-term conditions, with referrals to community teams. It suits a registered Paramedic with autonomous experience in a minor injury or illness centre or a mobile service.
What the job involves
- Respond to patients in their own homes, alone or as part of a team
- Assess patients who are at risk of hospital admission
- Run minor ailments clinics within the practice
- Support long-term condition monitoring and care plans
- Carry out patient assessments, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation, using a medical model to prescribe for acute conditions
- Perform point-of-care tests: urine dipstick, blood glucose, blood pressure, 12-lead ECG, FEV1/peak flow, and wound or infection swabs
- Take blood samples for laboratory testing
- Make clinical decisions from assessment, medical history and available resources
- Vaccinate patients
- Refer patients to community teams and the wider multidisciplinary team
- Safety-net patients and update clinical records
- Help shape multidisciplinary pathways across health and social care that keep care in or close to the patient's home
What’s required
Registration & licences
- Current registration as a Paramedic
Experience
- Experience as an autonomous practitioner in a minor injury or illness centre or mobile service
Skills & knowledge
- Able to work autonomously, using own clinical judgment to reach a diagnosis
- Able to manage and prioritise own workload
- Good communication skills
- Able to function effectively as part of a team
Nice to have
- Experience in primary, secondary or community care
- Completed minor ailment or minor injury modules at level 6
- Level 6 Paramedic Practitioner qualification
What’s offered
- Training provided for skills outside current scope of practice
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
