About the Role
The Colne Practice in Rickmansworth has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and enthusiastic paramedic to join our team on a part-time basis, for 3 days per week.
As a paramedic, you will be an integral part of our multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively to develop and implement effective patient management plans.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
1. Demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge.
2. Assess, plan, treat and refer patients, carrying out consultations in the surgery or the community as an autonomous practitioner.
3. Use own clinical judgement to diagnose and treat patients either face to face consultation, clinical telephone triage and other mediums.
4. Make appropriate referrals to primary, secondary and social services care, following practice. Follow pathways and protocols.
5. Deliver quality clinical care in a timely manner to patients.
6. Prescribe medicines as indicated, and appropriate, to address patient need, according to medicines management policy, NMC standards or referring to registered GP as necessary.
7. Recognise and initiate where appropriate relevant diagnostic investigations, using skills in this area to take the correct course of action.
About the Candidate
If you are an experienced paramedic wanting a new challenge, we would love to hear from you. You will have the following skills and experience:
Essential:
1. Be a registered paramedic, with current HCPC registration and have post-registration experience.
2. Minimum of two years (or equivalent) post qualification experience.
3. Triage and patient examination skills.
4. Knowledge of acute and long-term conditions.
5. Must be prepared to undertake home visits to patients or care homes.
6. Prescribing qualification.
Desirable:
1. Worked within a primary care setting (GP practice).
2. Experience of Emis Web clinical system.
About Us
The Colne Practice is a friendly GP practice with a list size of approximately 10,500 patients. Our team comprises 7 GP partners, 2 practice nurses, 1 HCA, 2 clinical pharmacists and reception and admin teams. We have on site staff parking.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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