ACP - Paramedic inNottingham inNottingham PUBLISHED 17 DEC 2023
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Post
PCN Paramedic ACP
Salary Grade
£50,624
Depending on experience
Accountable to
Clinical Director Rushcliffe PCN
Reporting to
GP Practice Clinical Lead
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The post holder will hold an ACP digital badge qualification. They will provide care for patients through advanced clinical assessment, examination, investigation, diagnosis, care planning and treatment, evaluation and follow up of care in a clinic room setting or in a patients own home as a domiciliary home visit.
Post holder will deliver a high standard of patient care with in-depth theoretical knowledge and evidence-based practice, working autonomously, and as required with support and supervision of a GP.
The postholder will deal with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting.
The postholder will work within their clinical competencies, agreed with the GP supervisor.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The post holder will provide first point of contact care for patients presenting with undifferentiated, long-term conditions and undiagnosed problems utilising history taking, physical examinations, problem solving and clinical decision making skills to establish a working diagnosis and management plan in partnership with the patients (and their carers where applicable)
Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports within your scope of competence. Discuss the result and implications of laboratory investigations with patients.
As an independent prescriber, you will utilise local and national clinical guidelines to prescribe medications as appropriate and promote evidence-based practice.
Deliver integrated patient centred care through appropriate working with the wider primary care network multi-disciplinary team and social care networks
Undertake face to face, telephone, video and online consultations for emergency and routine problems, as determined by the practice and the PartnersHealth, including management of patients with long term conditions.
Where required and within skill competence and relevant training, the PCN paramedic ACP can offer specialised clinics, including but not limited to family planning, baby checks, COPD, asthma, diabetes and anti-coagulation. This is not an exhaustive list.
Support the nursing staff and Primary Care Team as required.
Undertake home visits and participate in duty rotas as agreed with the practice management team.
Provide health/disease promotion and prevention advice to patients
Utilise clinical guidelines and promote evidence-based practice, participate in clinical audits, significant event reviews and other research and analysis tasks.
Utilise available diagnostics, plus interpretation, to support diagnosis, treatment, and management plans.
The post holder will ideally be a non-medical prescriber. If not already a non-medical prescriber, you will be supported to complete your non-medical prescribed as part of the ACP pathway.
The postholder will work to the ACP roadmap for continuous and ongoing CPD.
ADMINISTRATION
Ensure continuing education, training and development is undertaken to meet clinical governance guidelines for Continuing Professional Development and a Personal Development Plan.
Maintain and evidence all competencies to retain the digital badge status.
Maintain professional registration with the HCPC as required to maintain the healthcare professional registration.
Undertake a fair share of the overall administration associated with clinical practice in primary care.
Involvement in clinical audit as part of new service implementation, quality improvement, patient reviews, QOF and any other audit work undertaken by the practice and/or PartnersHealth
Show a caring attitude towards patients and show a caring attitude towards patients, have well-developed communication skills to provide treatment plans. And work to a professional code of ethics
Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology, and evidence-based medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals etc.
As an employee of PartnersHealth, working wholly in the nominated GP Practice/s you will take due diligence and care regarding any information collected, recorded, processed, or handled by you during the course of your work and that such information is collected, recorded, processed and handled in compliance with Practice requirements and instructions.
The post holder may be required to travel as part of their duties to other sites in the PCN, and travel expenses will be reimbursed by the employer.
Ensure consultations are documented accurately, clearly and contemporaneously.
Update patient records in accordance with practice policies and procedures.
To ensure observance and adherence to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
To participate in staff meetings, 1-2-1 meetings and the appraisal scheme and undertake training appropriate to the development of the job role and in line with the Practices statutory obligations.
To work to the agreed standards, policies and procedures and protocols of the Practice and be fully conversant with emergency procedures.
The duties of this post are a guide to the range of responsibilities that may be required. These may change from time to time to meet the needs of the service and/or the development needs of the post holder. This job description will be revised regularly to take account of changes within the organisational structure and the practice business plan.
Reviewed: 15.10.24
Ref: G:ManagementPractice RecruitmentPHJOB DESCRIPTIONSparamedic ACP JD
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Paramedic Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a digital badge in advanced clinical practice. You will need to be confident in managing a demanding workload, working at an advanced clinical level and experienced in assessment, diagnosing, planning and treating undifferentiated conditions. You will work autonomously in a clinic setting and be part of the wider practice team. We will support you with ongoing training, supervision, opportunity to extend your skills and practice scope through a safe and supported environment. We are looking for a clinician who wants to develop their career within primary care and join our dynamic.
Main duties of the job
Our service operates between 8am-6.30pm Monday to Friday, with no late shift, nights, weekend or bank holiday requirement. We are looking to recruit a paramedic ACP to work at Musters Medical Practice, West Bridgford. The range of patient presentations in a GP practice is vast, from young patients to older persons, mental health, womens health, long term conditions, non-acute, acute and chronic presentations. Its a varied role, thats different every day. You will be working directly with the GPs, and practice nurses, along with the wider non clinical team, admin and reception staff.
You need to be a registered paramedic, qualified advanced clinical practitioner with digital badge and a non-medical prescriber. This role will require you to be an experienced, clinically sound and an adaptable clinician, recognising your own strengths and limitations, to provide clinical assessments, examination, request investigations, diagnose, plan care and treatments and evaluate the care. This role will give you opportunity to extend and expand your clinical knowledge and working in a primary care setting, with a multi-disciplined team in the practice.
The post holder will work within Musters Medical Practice as part of the practice team but will be employed and part of the wider PartnersHealth GP federation team. PartnersHealth employs pharmacists, ACPs, paramedics, physician associates, nursing associates, social prescribers, mental health practitioners, first contact physiotherapists and care co-ordinators and works closely with the 11 GP practices in Rushcliffe. The PartnersHealth additional roles team, which this post is part of, is a growing organisation, that is known for being a forward thinking organisation, continually learning and developing and ultimately delivering high quality care to the population of Rushcliffe.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Post
PCN Paramedic ACP
Salary Grade
£50,624
Depending on experience
Accountable to
Clinical Director Rushcliffe PCN
Reporting to
GP Practice Clinical Lead
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The post holder will hold an ACP digital badge qualification. They will provide care for patients through advanced clinical assessment, examination, investigation, diagnosis, care planning and treatment, evaluation and follow up of care in a clinic room setting or in a patients own home as a domiciliary home visit.
Post holder will deliver a high standard of patient care with in-depth theoretical knowledge and evidence-based practice, working autonomously, and as required with support and supervision of a GP.
The postholder will deal with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting.
The postholder will work within their clinical competencies, agreed with the GP supervisor.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The post holder will provide first point of contact care for patients presenting with undifferentiated, long-term conditions and undiagnosed problems utilising history taking, physical examinations, problem solving and clinical decision making skills to establish a working diagnosis and management plan in partnership with the patients (and their carers where applicable)
Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports within your scope of competence. Discuss the result and implications of laboratory investigations with patients.
As an independent prescriber, you will utilise local and national clinical guidelines to prescribe medications as appropriate and promote evidence-based practice.
Deliver integrated patient centred care through appropriate working with the wider primary care network multi-disciplinary team and social care networks
Undertake face to face, telephone, video and online consultations for emergency and routine problems, as determined by the practice and the PartnersHealth, including management of patients with long term conditions.
Where required and within skill competence and relevant training, the PCN paramedic ACP can offer specialised clinics, including but not limited to family planning, baby checks, COPD, asthma, diabetes and anti-coagulation. This is not an exhaustive list.
Support the nursing staff and Primary Care Team as required.
Undertake home visits and participate in duty rotas as agreed with the practice management team.
Provide health/disease promotion and prevention advice to patients
Utilise clinical guidelines and promote evidence-based practice, participate in clinical audits, significant event reviews and other research and analysis tasks.
Utilise available diagnostics, plus interpretation, to support diagnosis, treatment, and management plans.
The post holder will ideally be a non-medical prescriber. If not already a non-medical prescriber, you will be supported to complete your non-medical prescribed as part of the ACP pathway.
The postholder will work to the ACP roadmap for continuous and ongoing CPD.
ADMINISTRATION
Ensure continuing education, training and development is undertaken to meet clinical governance guidelines for Continuing Professional Development and a Personal Development Plan.
Maintain and evidence all competencies to retain the digital badge status.
Maintain professional registration with the HCPC as required to maintain the healthcare professional registration.
Undertake a fair share of the overall administration associated with clinical practice in primary care.
Involvement in clinical audit as part of new service implementation, quality improvement, patient reviews, QOF and any other audit work undertaken by the practice and/or PartnersHealth
Show a caring attitude towards patients and show a caring attitude towards patients, have well-developed communication skills to provide treatment plans. And work to a professional code of ethics
Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology, and evidence-based medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals etc.
As an employee of PartnersHealth, working wholly in the nominated GP Practice/s you will take due diligence and care regarding any information collected, recorded, processed, or handled by you during the course of your work and that such information is collected, recorded, processed and handled in compliance with Practice requirements and instructions.
The post holder may be required to travel as part of their duties to other sites in the PCN, and travel expenses will be reimbursed by the employer.
Ensure consultations are documented accurately, clearly and contemporaneously.
Update patient records in accordance with practice policies and procedures.
To ensure observance and adherence to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
To participate in staff meetings, 1-2-1 meetings and the appraisal scheme and undertake training appropriate to the development of the job role and in line with the Practices statutory obligations.
To work to the agreed standards, policies and procedures and protocols of the Practice and be fully conversant with emergency procedures.
The duties of this post are a guide to the range of responsibilities that may be required. These may change from time to time to meet the needs of the service and/or the development needs of the post holder. This job description will be revised regularly to take account of changes within the organisational structure and the practice business plan.
Reviewed: 15.10.24
Ref: G:ManagementPractice RecruitmentPHJOB DESCRIPTIONSparamedic ACP JD
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Paramedic Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a digital badge in advanced clinical practice. You will need to be confident in managing a demanding workload, working at an advanced clinical level and experienced in assessment, diagnosing, planning and treating undifferentiated conditions. You will work autonomously in a clinic setting and be part of the wider practice team. We will support you with ongoing training, supervision, opportunity to extend your skills and practice scope through a safe and supported environment. We are looking for a clinician who wants to develop their career within primary care and join our dynamic.
Main duties of the job
Our service operates between 8am-6.30pm Monday to Friday, with no late shift, nights, weekend or bank holiday requirement. We are looking to recruit a paramedic ACP to work at Musters Medical Practice, West Bridgford. The range of patient presentations in a GP practice is vast, from young patients to older persons, mental health, womens health, long term conditions, non-acute, acute and chronic presentations. Its a varied role, thats different every day. You will be working directly with the GPs, and practice nurses, along with the wider non clinical team, admin and reception staff.
You need to be a registered paramedic, qualified advanced clinical practitioner with digital badge and a non-medical prescriber. This role will require you to be an experienced, clinically sound and an adaptable clinician, recognising your own strengths and limitations, to provide clinical assessments, examination, request investigations, diagnose, plan care and treatments and evaluate the care. This role will give you opportunity to extend and expand your clinical knowledge and working in a primary care setting, with a multi-disciplined team in the practice.
The post holder will work within Musters Medical Practice as part of the practice team but will be employed and part of the wider PartnersHealth GP federation team. PartnersHealth employs pharmacists, ACPs, paramedics, physician associates, nursing associates, social prescribers, mental health practitioners, first contact physiotherapists and care co-ordinators and works closely with the 11 GP practices in Rushcliffe. The PartnersHealth additional roles team, which this post is part of, is a growing organisation, that is known for being a forward thinking organisation, continually learning and developing and ultimately delivering high quality care to the population of Rushcliffe.
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