Paramedic Practitioner inPaignton inPaignton PUBLISHED 17 MAY 2024

Clinical

• To provide assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients at first point of contact, predominately in their own homes.

• To accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in emergency situations.
• To apply the necessary skills and techniques to elicit a clear history of events / episode of illness, including the relevant background medical, medications and social histories.

• To evaluate clinical information from history taking and examination to arrive at differential diagnoses, and to initiate an appropriate treatment and /or referral.

• To undertake and interpret diagnostics and take appropriate action to manage patient care. To distinguishing between abnormal and normal findings and to relate these findings to a working diagnosis. To use broad clinical guidelines (NICE etc.), relating them to individual cases and feeding back to colleagues on how these should be interpreted.

• To appropriately signpost patients to other services for their identified healthcare needs.

• To refer patients to appropriate care settings.

• To treat patients as appropriate within scope of practice, and to ask for support when unsure.

• To maintain accurate and systematic documentation of all patient interactions and clinical care provided, including adverse events.

• To advise and support patients on healthy lifestyles, health promotion and disease prevention.

• To provide clinical advice to other members of the team where appropriate.

Communication

• To liaise and interact with multidisciplinary teams across organisational boundaries, including primary care, social services and secondary care providers, according to patient needs and appropriate care pathways.

• To maintain communication with all healthcare professionals and outside agencies to ensure seamless, patient-centred care.

• To ensure effective communication so that the patient receives the appropriate level of care and wherever possible avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

• To take an active role in maintaining expert communication with all patients, carers and relatives, which meets their individual needs.

• To deal with complaints in a calm and courteous manner, ensuring that, wherever possible, complaints are dealt with efficiently and satisfactorily on a local level.

• To communicate effectively in demanding and challenging situations, where there may also be hostility.

Professional

• To input to and extract information from the Practices clinical IT system, EMIS.

• To work collaboratively and collegiately with other members of the healthcare team such as the Community Nursing Team, Community Mental Health Team, care home staff, the acute ambulance and hospital trusts etc.
• To execute mandatory reporting duties, with particular regards to child and adult safeguarding.

• To participate and contribute to clinical meetings.
• To identify clinical and medicolegal risks within personal practice and organisational service provision, and to highlight these to the Partners.
• To work within the requirements of Data Protection legislation as it applies to patient records.
• To engage in self-appraisal and utilise reflective practice to enhance and develop personal practice.

• To maintain Continued Professional Development to a high standard.

• To maintain current professional registration.
• To maintain all mandatory training requirements with the necessary deadlines.

• To act at all times in such a manner as to promote confidence and public trust, and to uphold the reputation of Pembroke Medical Group and the individuals profession.

Organisational

• To operate as an effective member of the Practice team

• To provide information for the evaluation the role and for performance management purposes as requested.

• To assist in clinical audits in-line with the Practices clinical audit plan, and to participate as research as requested.
• To support the development of the Acute Day Team at the Practice.
• To contribute to the analysis of information to inform future development of the service.

• To assist in marketing and promoting the role and organisation within the health community both locally and nationally as required.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The successful candidate will need to agree that a level of flexibility is needed. The role may require other related duties to be carried out upon reasonable request, which are within the employee's skills and capabilities.

Pembroke Medical Group are excited to offer the role of Paramedic Practitioner to an enthusiastic and experienced paramedic, who is passionate about primary care and wanting to join a friendly and dynamic multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in the co-ordination and delivery of acute and unplanned care to our community.

Advanced Paramedic Practitioner / Emergency Care Practitioner

Providing urgent same-day care to patients in their own homes

To assess and manage patients independently, with the support of the GPs on the Acute Day Team

To contribute to the development of the Acute Day Service at the Practice

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like any further information about the Practice or the role, please telephone Yvonne Chadwick our Lead ANP on . Informal visits by appointment are also encouraged.

You will work autonomously and within the competency level of an Advanced Paramedic Practitioner / Emergency Care Practitioner. You will be based within the Practice at Pembroke House working alongside and supported by a team of GPs and AHPs as part of the Acute Day Team, providing urgent same-day care.

The role will involve the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and / or onward referral of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions.
Please note the role will predominately involve assessing and treating patients in their own homes.
In time, there may be the opportunity to progress to providing clinics within the Practice, depending on the individuals skills and experience and our operational requirements.