Pcn Paramedic

Forest Heath PCN have an exciting, new opportunity for a Visiting **Paramedic (Emergency Care Practitioner) Band 7** to join our team to assist in re-shaping Primary Care across our community.

Forest Heath PCN is the largest PCN in West Suffolk and has a busy and dynamic team where we want individuals to develop, and ideally focus on health areas where you have a real interest supporting the local community.

Forest Heath PCN has been formed between Brandon Medical Practice, Forest Surgery, The Surgery - Lakenheath, The Market Cross Surgery, Oakfield Surgery, Orchard House Surgery, The Reynard Surgery and Rookery Medical Centre serving our combined 74,000 patients in Newmarket, Mildenhall, Brandon and the surrounding villages.

**Full Job Description**

**JOB TITLE: Visiting Paramedic/EMERGENCY CARE PRACTITIONER**

**REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS (Clinically)**

**THE PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)**

**HOURS: Ideally full time (negotiable)**

**Agenda For Change Band 7 pay scale**

**Job summary**:
The post-holder will be responsible for the autonomous clinical assessment and treatment of patients, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. The role will involve the assessment, diagnosis, treatment or referral of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. The post-holder will work within the Emergency Care Practitioner’s level of competency. The ECP may be required to respond to referrals and requests from various sources, including:

- Patients
- Care homes
- General Practitioners
- 111
- Out of Hours services

**Clinical responsibilities**:

- To provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment as first point of contact by attending to patients according to patients’ needs, either in the Practice or in **patient’s homes**:

- To provide safe and effective clinical practice within own competence boundaries, and acknowledge limitations
- To support and continue the development of an on the day emergency patient service in the Practice
- **The role involves visits, ward rounds, triage and assessment of Nursing/Care home patients, as well as housebound patients**:

- To accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in emergency situations, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical and drug history
- To evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking, and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral
- To undertake and interpret diagnostics and take appropriate action to manage patient care, whilst distinguishing between abnormal and normal findings in order to relate them to a possible diagnosis. To use broad clinical guidelines (NICE etc.) relating them to individual cases, providing assistance and feedback to the organisation and others on how these should be interpreted
- To signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway.
- To refer patients to appropriate care settings, within locally agreed healthcare pathways
- To discharge or treat, as appropriate and within the scope of practice
- To maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient interactions and clinical care provided, including adverse events.
- To advise and support members of the public on healthy lifestyles, health promotion and disease prevention.
- To provide clinical advice to other members of the team where appropriate

**Other responsibilities within the organisation**:

- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
- A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
- Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate

**Confidentiality**:

- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and t