Job Summary
As a Primary Care Paramedic, you will play a crucial role in supporting our clinicians and reducing GP workload by providing high-quality care to patients. You will be responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and managing a range of health conditions, working both independently and collaboratively within the practice, on home visits in the community and within the residential and nursing homes in our catchment area. Our paramedic would be fully supported by the clinical team of GPs and nurses to provide clinical care in clinics and on home visits and during care home ward rounds. Our paramedic would have direct access, when needed, to a GP.
Main Duties of the Job
* Conduct patient assessments: assessing, managing, treating, referring and/or signposting patients with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions relating to minor illness or minor injury.
* Using advanced clinical skills to provide education to service users, promoting self-care and empowering them to make informed choices about their treatment.
* Work alongside GPs and other healthcare professionals to deliver integrated care.
* Manage acute and chronic conditions, ensuring timely and effective interventions.
* Participate in health promotion and disease prevention activities.
* Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient records.
About Us
* Bottisham Medical Practice is a semi-rural practice just North of Cambridge within the Cambridge City PCN.
* Patient population ~ 5900 patients.
* We provide medical services to our local care homes.
* We do not staff the extended hours or out of hours services.
* Opening hours: Monday Friday, 8:30am - 6pm. No weekends.
* Our team is our greatest asset - a friendly team with a warm caring ethos where patient continuity is valued. 3 of our 7 GPs were former trainees at the practice. We have a practice manager, operations manager and workflow team. The workflow team ensure a low admin load for the clinical team due to their excellent coding and care navigation.
* We close for half a day a month for a team pizza lunch and training.
* Access to a centrally funded visiting team (JET and UWAC) to share our home visits.
* We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Primary Care Paramedic to join our multidisciplinary team to assist us in our delivery of medical services to our community.
Date Posted: 27 March 2025
Pay Scheme: Other
Salary: £42,000 to £48,000 a year Pro rata, dependant on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Part-time
Reference Number: A1233-25-0001
Job Locations: Tunbridge Lane, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB25 9DU
Job Description
JOB TITLE: General Practice Paramedic
REPORTS TO: PRACTICE MANAGER (ADMIN) & PARTNERS (CLINICAL)
HOURS: 25 hrs per week
Scope and Purpose of the Role
A Paramedic is authorised to undertake treatments and procedures for which they are trained, and which are within the College of Paramedic Guidelines in line with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards framework. The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the practice to provide general advice and support on a day-to-day basis.
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
* Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the practice team.
* Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services and to self-care.
* Be able to perform specialist health checks and reviews, perform and interpret ECGs, perform investigatory procedures as required, undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc., and perform a domiciliary (home/nursing or care home) visit.
* Support the delivery of anticipatory care and end of life care plans.
* Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day home visits for the practice and undertake clinical audits.
* Communicate at all levels across the practice and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centred service.
* Prescribe, issue and review medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways.
* Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
Professional Development
Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development.
General
Staff must behave in a professional and discreet manner at all times. Patient and professional confidentiality is of prime importance. Any breach of confidentiality can result in immediate suspension/dismissal.
Special Requirements and Required Competences of the Post
Ability to use own judgment, resourcefulness and be able to work under pressure without direct supervision. Excellent communication skills and patience. Reliable and flexible. Ability to work within a team and communicate with people at all levels.
The duties in this job description are not exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically with the post holder, to ensure that they relate to the job as then being performed or to incorporate whatever changes are being proposed to meet both organisational requirements and the needs of the post holder.
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