Primary Care Network Paramedic Specialist

4 weeks ago


Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom Riverside Medical Centre Full time
Job Summary

As a Primary Care Network Paramedic, you will work autonomously within the community, utilizing your enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills to provide first-point contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems. You will be a health professional capable of making sound judgments in the absence of full information and managing varying degrees of risk when faced with complex, competing, or ambiguous information or uncertainty.

Main Duties of the Job

1. Work as part of a multidisciplinary team within the Primary Care Network.
2. Assess and triage patients, including same-day triage, and provide definitive treatment as appropriate, including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE guidelines, and local care pathways, or making necessary referrals to other members of the Primary Care team.
3. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to prescribing services and other community or voluntary services.
4. Perform specialist health checks and reviews within your scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance.
5. Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain community services, including monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk in elderly patients living in sheltered housing.
6. Provide an alternative model to urgent and same-day home visits for the Primary Care Network and undertake clinical audits.

About Us

Riverside Medical Centre is part of the Bridgedale Primary Care Network, serving a community of around 30,000 people. We are committed to delivering excellent patient care and supporting our patients' and staff's health and wellbeing. As a Primary Care Network, we are working hard to deliver on the national NHS England network contract, focusing on areas such as anticipatory care, cardiovascular disease prevention and diagnosis, and early diagnosis of cancer.

Key Responsibilities

Work as part of a multidisciplinary team within the Primary Care Network.
Assess and triage patients, including same-day triage, and provide definitive treatment as appropriate.
Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate.
Perform specialist health checks and reviews within your scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance.
Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain community services.
Provide an alternative model to urgent and same-day home visits for the Primary Care Network and undertake clinical audits.
Communicate effectively with patients, colleagues, and other stakeholders, ensuring effective, patient-centred service delivery.

Person Specification

Experience in managing a designated caseload, completing assessments, planning, implementing interventions, and evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans.
Working knowledge of Microsoft and GP practice and prescribing data monitoring systems.
Ability to write comprehensive clinical notes, implement, and evaluate care plans.
Awareness of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues, particularly within a Primary Care Network.
Ability to evidence a sound understanding of the NHS principles and values.
Ability to analyze and interpret complex, often incomplete information, preempt, and evaluate issues, and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues.
Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
Ability to negotiate effectively and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders based on openness, honesty, trust, and confidence.
Strong and inspirational leadership skills.
Ability to coordinate and prioritize workloads, multitask, and be self-disciplined and highly motivated.

Qualifications

BSc in a training program approved by the College of Paramedics.
Educated to degree/diploma level in Paramedicine or equivalent experience.
Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration.
Has completed two-year Consolidation of Learning period as a newly qualified paramedic and has a further three years' experience as an AFC Band 6 (or equivalent) paramedic.
Working towards developing masters-level or equivalent capability in paramedic areas of practice and within six months of commencement of the role, have completed and been signed off formally within clinical pillar competencies of the paramedic FCP/AP roadmap to practice.

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