Rural Warwickshire North Primary Care Network (PCN) would like to recruit a forward thinking and enthusiastic Paramedic to support the practices in expanding services available to our patients.
We offer services ranging from Social Prescribing, Physiotherapists, Care Coordinators and Clinical Pharmacists to make a range of services more accessible to our patients.
This is a very exciting opportunity to get involved in making a real difference within primary care and supporting our patients.
The role will support practices and patients in receiving the right care the first time around.
This role will focus on but will not be limited to:
1. Supporting the PCN to look after the patient population.
2. Working closely with GPs and other primary care professionals within the PCN.
3. With support focusing on the delivery of a PCN model to reflect local priorities, health inequalities and population health management.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of a PCN Paramedic are to:
1. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within RWNPCN.
2. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the organisations social prescribing service and, where appropriate, other community or voluntary services.
3. Perform specialist health checks and reviews within their scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance.
4. Perform investigatory procedures as required and undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs and other samples within their scope of practice and within line of local and national guidance.
5. Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain services (e.g., monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients).
6. Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the practice.
7. Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the MDT, attending and contributing to meetings as required.
8. Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration with the organisation.
9. Communicate effectively with patients and where appropriate family members and their carers, where applicable, complex and sensitive information regarding their health needs, results, findings and treatment choices.
About us
We are a Primary Care Network ( PCN ) of six practices working together with a range of local providers, including primary care, community services, social care, and the voluntary sector, to offer more personalized, coordinated health and social care to their local populations.
The aims of a network are to:
1. Protect, improve, and extend local General Practice through greater organisational scale to provide convenient high quality, comprehensive and integrated services.
2. Enhance the skills and flexibility of the General Practice workforce to meet population and service needs with programmes of continuing professional development.
3. Work and collaborate with others to innovate in service provision, building on new technologies and recognising lifestyle choices of service users in the way in which they wish to access care.
Qualifications
* Degree in Paramedic Science or equivalent.
* Have completed or currently engaged on MSc level Advanced Clinical Practice education.
* Professional registration with HCPC and no current issues under investigation.
* Driving Licence.
* CoP Dip. Primary & Urgent Care Exam.
* Minor illness in Adults and Children.
* Advanced Life Support.
* Advanced Paediatric Life Support.
* Palliative Care.
Knowledge
* Can demonstrate a broad base of competencies and skills.
* Knowledge of NICE guidelines.
* Understanding of legal and ethical issues/responsibilities relating to clinical practice.
* Understanding of the Serious Incident Framework.
* Knowledge of own professional accountability and autonomous practice.
* Knowledge of the implementation of Care Quality.
* Evidence of working across organisational boundaries within health and social care.
* Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
* Build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders which are based on openness, honesty, trust and confidence.
Experience
* Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics.
* Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
* Be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a GP surgery.
* Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation 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.
* Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
* Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
* Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
* Keep up to date with current evidence-based practice.
* 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 health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
* Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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