Paramedic

**About the Role**:
GP Healthcare Alliance, a local federation of GP practices in south east Essex, is working in partnership with the local primary care networks to support the delivery of the NHS England, Direct Enhanced Service (DES) contract. We are looking to recruit a paramedic to cover the Southend West Central Primary Care Network, which is made up of the following practices:

- Prince Avenue Surgery
- The Valkyrie Surgery
- Southend Medical Centre
- Dr Bekas Medical Centre
- Scott Park Surgery

This is a full-time post working 37.5 hours per week. All flexible offers and working arrangements will be considered.

The main duties of the role include:

- providing a high-quality, cost-effective service to the patients of the primary care network (PCN); undertaking clinical assessment, diagnosing and evaluation of care while within working defined procedures and protocols set by the clinical nurse manager/clinical director.
- responsiblity for seeing patients who present with a wide range of minor illnesses, urgent and same-day requests for treatment and chronic disease management, providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care. These consultations may take place in practice sites, and by visiting patients in their place of residence.
- demonstration of safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills. There will be the need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.
- For further information about this role, please see the attached job description._

The appropriate individual will:

- be a qualified paramedic with experience in an acute response/emergency setting.
- have current GPhC registration
- be confident to triage, take comprehensive history, examine, diagnose and treat or refer, for a range of minor injuries, illnesses or infections, as required.

Working knowledge of SystmOne would be advantageous, as would experience of ordering and interpreting tests on ICE.

**About Us**:
GP Healthcare Alliance is a company, originally formed as a GP federation, made up of 18 practices who work together to provide healthcare for our practices and patients, in Castle Point, Rochford and Rayleigh, Essex. All practice members remain independent contractors, but work collaboratively to improve healthcare services within our area.

We provide a range of primary care and community services to our local residents, various ‘at scale services’ for practices, as well as professional staff training. We meet nationwide challenges with local knowledge and expertise, tailoring our services to reflect the needs of the communities in which we work.

We will develop new services, where we believe we can improve the patient experience and deliver efficiency savings to the NHS. We work with local NHS clinicians in the delivery of the services, thereby supporting the retention of strength and depth within the local NHS clinical teams.

GP Healthcare Alliance headlines:

- Over 8 years delivering NHS contracts at scale across Essex;
- Serving close to 300,000 patients across 5 primary care networks;
- Delivering weekend wound care services;
- We delivered “hot hubs” during the Coronavirus pandemic's first wave, and continue to deliver Covid vaccinations and booster campaigns;
- Our online training academy is due to be launched;
- We care Our charity work includes collaborating with the Rotary Clubs to collect food bank donations as well as collecting used bras for breast cancer research and compiling Christmas gift boxes for the homeless;
- At an inspection of our head offices this year, we were rated “outstanding” by the CQC for being such a “well led” organisation

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