PCN ParamedicinWoodbridgeinWoodbridgePUBLISHED WED 18 SEP 2024
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Deben Health Group is seeking a dedicated PCN Paramedic to join their established team in Woodbridge. This role, available on either a full or part-time basis, involves traveling across four practices within the Deben Health Group PCN. Responsibilities include assessing and triaging patients, performing ECGs, collecting pathological specimens, and promoting self-management by signposting patients to social prescribing services and community resources. The successful candidate will also support anticipatory care plans, lead community services, and provide vital medical support to care-home populations.
The PCN Paramedic will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, enhancing patient care by offering an alternative model to urgent GP home visits and participating in clinical audits. Effective communication and proactive engagement with colleagues are essential, as well as a commitment to delivering high-quality healthcare services across the network.
The PCN Paramedic will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, enhancing patient care by offering an alternative model to urgent GP home visits and participating in clinical audits. Effective communication and proactive engagement with colleagues are essential, as well as a commitment to delivering high-quality healthcare services across the network.
Deben Health Group has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking & enthusiastic PCN prescribing nurse practitioner/ paramedic, on a full or part time basis. This new role would join an established PCN team of patient coordinators, mental health, pharmacy hub & first contact physiotherapists. You will be required to travel across the sites within the Deben Health Group PCN which is made up of 4 practices.
- Assess & triage patients, including same day triage.
- Advise patients on general health and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCNs social prescribing service, and where appropriate, other community or voluntary services.
- Perform and interpret ECGs.
- Perform investigatory procedures, specialist health checks and QOF investigations as required within their scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance.
- Undertake the collection of pathological specimens.
- Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans & lead certain community services.
- Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the network & clinical audits.
- Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required.
- Support the PCN care-home population by providing medical services (ward rounds, urgent care visits where necessary).
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