Working across both locations: Battersea Fields Practice, 3 Austin Road, London, SW11 5JP and Sleaford Street Health Centre, 33 Sleaford Street, London, SW8 5FD.
Job summary:
The post holder will work independently, as well as alongside our multi-disciplinary medical team, managing routine and urgent appointments as well as telephone triage (including assessment of urgency of illness/injury) and home visits. The post holder will be seeing patients with long term medical conditions including same-day urgent home visits as well as routine visits to housebound patients with long term conditions for pro-active care to prevent avoidable emergency admissions.
Clinical responsibilities:
The following are the core responsibilities of the Paramedic. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide diagnosis, support and definitive treatment
- Prescribe medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways within the scope of your knowledge and qualifications
- Make referrals to other members of the primary care team and to external organisations where necessary
- Perform specialist health checks and reviews in line with local and national guidance
- Use advanced clinical decision making skills to provide evidence based care
- Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate
- Provide home visits when required
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within the organisation
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical records in line with Practice policies
- Contribute to Practice audits, quality improvement and service development
Other responsibilities within the organisation:
· Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg 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 SNOMED 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 outlines 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 the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health and safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health and Safety policy, to include:
· Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
· Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
· Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
· Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
· Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
· Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
· Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
· Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continues education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
· Participation in annual external and/or internal performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
· Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice and will:
· Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
· Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
· Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions oon ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance.
· Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs.
· Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
· Communicate effectively with other team members.
· Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
· Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
· Apply practice policies, standards and guidance.
· Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
· Participate in audit where appropriate.
· Cover duties of partner GPs in their absence.
· Represent the practice and partners professionally with the aim of raising the profile of the practice in a positive manner.
Person Specification – Paramedic
Experience and qualifications:
ESSENTIAL
Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
Experience managing minor illness and patients with undifferentiated presentations
DESIRABLE (SKILLS)
Independent prescribing qualification (or working towards)
Knowledge and skills:
Excellent communication skills
Good numeracy and literacy skills
Knowledge of Docman and EMIS web
Ability to organise and prioritise workload efficiently
Ability to exercise sound judgement when faced with conflicting pressures
Ability to analyse data and information, drawing out implications for the individual patient/impact on care plan
Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in audit/Quality Improvement projects
Qualities and Attributes:
An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense
Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own workload priorities
Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
Professional, articulate and helpful manner
Able to work under pressure
Able to work in a changing environment
Able to use own initiative
Other:
Punctual and well presented
Flexibility of working hours/ able to work at the desired times
Commitment to personal develop and take part in available training
Commitment to the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues
Pay: £50,000.00-£55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
Application question(s):
- Do you have experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice?
- Do you have experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
- Do you have Experience managing minor illness and patients with undifferentiated presentations.
- Have you completed an approved degree in paramedic science or a degree apprenticeship and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Work Location: In person
