Senior Paramedic

Job Title**:Senior Paramedic**

Location: Various regions

Hours: 40 hours (four fixed day shifts per week - to be agreed)

**Salary**: £51,428 - £56,888

Responsible for: Clinical Staff

Accountable to: Clinical Services Manager
- **Person Specification **_

**Essential**
- HCPC registered paramedic
- Mentoring qualification (desirable)
- Experience and Knowledge
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
- Report writing skills.
- Facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Ability to work within a multi-professional team and to develop team working.
- Ability to analyse highly complex clinical issues/problems, identify necessary action, and make recommendations and follow these through.
- IT skills (databases and Microsoft Office).

**Skills and Abilities**
- Demonstrate high levels of emotional intelligence.
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Experience of dealing with difficult and challenging situations.
- Ability to listen and document feedback concisely and without bias.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.

**Personal Attributes**
- Able to work under pressure and cope with change and conflicting priorities.
- Willingness to travel across regions.
- Model professional behaviours.
- Engaging and positive personality.

**Key Working Relationships**:

- Patients, relatives, and carers.
- The general public.
- ACP and CAS managers
- HR team members
- Governance team members
- Learning and development team members
- On a daily basis, liaise with clinical and non-clinical staff across the organisation, providing and receiving information.
- Customers including hospital trusts and ambulance trusts
- External agencies in relation to patient experience and safeguarding, such as:

- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
- Independent Complaints Advocacy Services
- Other NHS and independent patient experience teams
- Local Authorities
- Social Services
- Police and ambulance services
- Other safeguarding teams

**Main Purpose of the Role**:
The role is responsible for the clinical mentoring of staff within the emergency and urgent care setting. Where required, you will assist with the induction and mentorship of new staff and students ensuring that they are aware of all necessary procedures, policies, and information to carry out their role effectively.

The post holder will mentor designated staff and students as required, taking appropriate action in line with the Business’s policy and procedure if performance falls below the expected standard. You will use your knowledge and skills when working with or mentoring students and new staff to ensure they are competent in undertaking clinical procedures and utilising appropriate equipment.

When not working in a clinical mentoring capacity, the post holder will undertake the full range of paramedic duties in line with the Business’s needs.

**Clinical Key Tasks**
- Undertake the full range of paramedic duties.
- Assess, treat, manage, or refer, and where appropriate, convey patients according to the nature and severity of their condition to the appropriate care pathway.
- Carry out paramedic duties commensurate with national clinical practice guidelines and business specific PGDs and guidelines.
- Responsible as an autonomous practitioner for using local care pathways associated with local initiatives where clinically safe to do so.
- Modify and adapt working practices to meet the clinical needs of the patient in an emergency and urgent care setting.
- As appropriate, treat and refer or treat and discharge patients who access the health service but who do not need hospital admission where clinically safe to do so.
- Participate in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of emergency and urgent care involving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations.
- Make reasoned decisions regarding initiating, modifying, or ceasing treatment or procedures and ensuring accurate documentation of decisions. Be accountable and responsible for clinical decisions made during their duty and seek senior clinical advice where appropriate.
- Ensure compliance with medicines management. Ensure drugs are stored securely and where appropriate stocked according to both national legal frameworks and local policy.
- Make appropriate use of equipment which you are trained on which may include various types of vehicles, diagnostic, invasive, and therapeutic equipment.

**Mentoring Key Tasks**
- Assist with the induction and mentorship of new staff and students ensuring that they are aware of all necessary procedures, policies, and information to carry out their role effectively.
- Mentor designated staff and students as required, taking appropriate action in line with the Business’s policy and procedure if performance falls below the expected standard.
- Use personal knowledge and skills when working with or mentoring students and new staff to ensure they are competent in undertaking clinical procedures and