Rapid Response Paramedic

We are seeking an experienced Paramedic to join our Rapid Response Team as a Rapid Response Paramedic - Community Independence Service. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing high-quality patient care and support to individuals in the community.

• Provide community-based responsive input to patients with undifferentiated, varied, and complex needs.
• Ensure holistic assessment and community care pathway planning to directly prevent unnecessary acute hospital admission.
• Work autonomously while drawing assistance from other senior colleagues in primary and secondary care.
• Provide interventions and make clinical decisions that support patient choice and wishes.
• Work within the service operation hours Monday to Sunday on an 8 am - 8 pm or 10 am -10 pm shift pattern across the tri-borough sites.

• Appropriate professional registration (e.g., NMC, Adult Nursing/HCPC Paramedic).
• Experience of teaching and mentoring students.
• Experience of working in a MDT.
• Medication management: experience in subcutaneous, IV, IM lines, with administration of medicines in a diverse range of patients.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience working at Band 5 level.
• Experience of managing acute episodes of care, cellulitis, urinary tract infection (UTI), falls, functional, mobility, cognitive impairment.
• Experience of venepuncture.
• Experience of working in an acute setting with high acuity patients (e.g., London Ambulance Service, A&E, Intensive Therapy Unit).
• Experience in delivering short-term episodes of care (i.e., from 3 - 7 days).
• Experience of prioritizing and managing own workload with minimal supervision.
• Evidence of own Clinical Supervision/Reflective Practice.
• Experience of safe patient handling.

• Contributing to a quality improvement project.
• Community and rapid response experience.
• Experience in advance care planning and End of Life care, identifying and managing clinical situations working within Coordinate My Care requirements.
• Experience of leading audit or project.
• Experience of using Patient Record System (e.g., Systm1, Rio).

• Across a range of patient conditions, including common elderly complaints (e.g., frailty, falls, COPD, Hypertension, heart failure, UTI - acute on chronic illness).
• Knowledge, understanding, and awareness of memory impairment, cognition, and the effects on health and well-being.
• Knowledge and ability to use NEWS2/SBAR.
• Knowledge and ability to identify sensory impairment, the impact it has on activities of daily living and the health and well-being of their patients.
• Ability to know when to discharge and who to refer on to.
• Knowledge on how and why to raise safeguarding concerns.
• Knowledge of incident reporting and reviews.
• Ability to respond appropriately to a complex scenario, using a combination of intuition, assertiveness, and clinical reasoning to achieve the best patient outcome.
• Ability to manage complaints in a sensitive and appropriate manner, on the phone and in person, providing excellent customer service.

• Self-awareness - knows own strengths and weaknesses. Empowers others to achieve goals, adopts a 'can do' approach.
• Contributes towards improving quality in own work area and encourages others to do so.
• Self-Management - demonstrates personal resilience, recognizes the anxieties of others, and helps them manage appropriately.
• Deals with criticism constructively and recognizes how issues relate to the 'greater good of patient care.'
• Personal Integrity - Has a strong commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness, and high standards.
• Promotes partnership and collaboration and demonstrates respect to manager and team colleagues.
• Has the ability to harness the views and contributions of others.
• High-level communication skills, confident and open style of communication; routinely tests for understanding of own message.