Paramedic Ecp

**Job Summary**:
The Advanced Care Practitioner will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, telephone consultations and home visits.

The postholder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence.

The Advanced Care Practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients, accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.

The postholder will use skills, knowledge, and competencies as a qualified Advanced Care Practitioner / Paramedic in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging patients as appropriate.

The paramedic role in practice will reflect the role, training and development and skills as outlined in the First Contact Practitioners and Advanced Practitioners in Primary Care: (Paramedic) A Roadmap to Practice

**Job responsibilities**:
**Clinical Practice**
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high-quality care.
- Carries out clinical paramedic practice at an advanced level using expert clinical skills, critical judgements & knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care.

Delivery of care in line with NSF, NICE guidelines, and evidence-based care
- Triage and treat patients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to other members of the primary and secondary health care teams as appropriate.

Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and carers/relatives are involved.
- Reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
- Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.

Request diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols e.g., x-ray, blood tests, scans, etc.
- Assess, diagnose and treat patients in practice premises or their own home who require medical attention and/or refer to appropriate agency.
- Refers patients to other members of the multi-disciplinary practice teams, secondary care organisations and other organisations as necessary.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £38,833.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift

COVID-19 considerations:
Standard GP SOP procedures followed for the delivery of Primary Care Services

**Experience**:

- Paramedic: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Professional Registration (required)

Work Location: One location