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Job Descrption

Key Working Relationships:
• Patients, relatives, and carers.
• The general public.
• LMS, ACP, and CAS managers
• HR team members
• Governance team members
• On a daily basis, liaise with clinical and non-clinical staff across the organisation, providing and receiving information.
• Customers including PCNs, 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

Key Duties and Responsibilities.
• Assess patients, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN team.
• Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services.
• Be able to:
• Perform specialist... health checks and reviews.
• Perform and interpret ECGs, alongside other results as appropriate.
• Perform investigatory procedures as required.
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc.
• Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain community services (e.g., monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk).
• Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day visits for the PCN and undertake clinical audits.
• Communicate across all levels at the PCN and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centred services.
• Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required.
• Collaborate with other members of the PCN including doctors, nurses, and other AHPs, accepting referrals and referring them for specialist care.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice.
• Work with patients to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimes, side-effects, and interactions.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatments and/or interventions and care for patients presenting with a differentiated diagnosis.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective and plan clinical care accordingly.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent, or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.

Quality Requirements
• Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, and impart own knowledge and skills to colleagues to meet the needs of the service.
• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC.
• Assess the effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking, and formal evaluation.
• Participate in research and utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of healthcare responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

Administrative Requirements
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.
• Be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues.
• Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementing, and monitoring of care, presenting, and communicating information.
• Review and process data using accurate read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.

Supervision
• The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision to provide general advice and support on a day-to-day basis.

General Requirements:

1. Communication and Working Regulations

The post holder must treat all colleagues in a manner that conveys respect for the abilities of each other and a willingness to work as a team.

2. Policies and Procedures

All duties and responsibilities must be undertaken in compliance with the business’s policies and procedures. The post holder must familiarise the ways in which to raise a concern to the business, e.g., Freedom to Speak Up and Whistleblowing.

3. Health and Safety

The post holder must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon themselves under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, subsequent legislation, and business policies, to maintain safe working practices and safe working environments for themselves, colleagues, and service users.

4. No Smoking

All business premises are considered as smoke free zones.

5. Confidentiality

Everyone working for or on behalf of the business is bound by a legal duty of confidentiality (Common Law Duty of Confidentiality). The post holder must not disclose either during or after the termination of their contract, any information of a confidential nature relating to the business, its staff, its patients, or third parties, which may have been obtained in the course of their employment.

6. Equal Opportunities

The business believes that the equality of opportunity and diversity is vital to the success and an essential prerequisite to the achievement of its goals in delivering seamless, high quality, safe healthcare for all, which is appropriate and responsive to meeting the diverse needs of individuals. In working to achieve our goals, it is important that staff and users are treated equitably, with dignity and respect, and are involved and considered in every aspect of practice and changes affecting their employment or health care within the business.

7. Infection Prevention and Control

The post holder will ensure they follow the business’s infection prevention and control (IPC) policies and procedures to protect patients, staff, and visitors from healthcare associated infections. They will ensure that they use personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with policy and procedure. All staff must challenge non-compliance with IPC policies immediately and feedback through appropriate line managers if required.

8. Safeguarding Children and Adults

The business takes its responsibilities to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults seriously. The business expects all staff to identify their own responsibilities appropriate to their role within statute and guidance. This will include accessing safeguarding training and may include seeking advice, support, and supervision from the service’s safeguarding team. Where staff are unclear of their responsibilities, they must seek guidance from their manager.

Person Specification

Qualifications

HCPC registered paramedic with a minimum of two years post registration experience.

Able to operate at an advanced level of clinical practice.

Full UK driving licence.

Evidence of verification against the paramedic primary care roadmap.

Experience and Knowledge

Working knowledge of Microsoft.

Ability to write comprehensive clinical notes.

Experience of working within a primary care setting.

Evidence of working across organisational boundaries within health and social care.

Analysis

Ability to analyse and interpret complex and often incomplete information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues.

Independent thinker with good judgement, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Communication

Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.

Be a clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing, and presentation skills, capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.

Be able to influence and persuade others articulating a balanced view and be able to constructively question information.

Be able to negotiate effectively.

Build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders which are based on openness, honesty, trust, and confidence.

Evidence of inspiring and motivating teams.

Personal Attributes

Ability to co-ordinate and prioritise workloads.

Ability to multitask.

Be self-disciplined and motivated.

High degree of personal credibility, emotional intelligence, patience, and flexibility.

Ability to cope with unpredictable situations.

Confident in facilitating and challenging others.

Demonstrates a flexible approach in order to ensure patient care is delivered.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From £46,495.00 per year

Benefits:
• Company pension

Schedule:
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime

Experience:
• Post NQP as HCPC Paramedic No other qualifications accepted: 2 years (required)

Licence/Certification:
• Full UK driving licence? (required)
• UK HCPC Registration (no international applicants) (required)

Work authorisation:
• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Community Paramedic

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