You’ll be based at our Aylesbury Ambulance Station supporting the Frontline NHS South Central Ambulance Service. Your responsibilities include the care, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and transportation of patients in both emergency and non-emergency scenarios, serving a wide spectrum of patient groups and environments. Additionally, you play a crucial role in mentoring Newly Qualified Paramedics (NQP) and other ambulance clinicians, guiding their professional development and clinical expertise.
Duties & Responsibilities
* Maintaining a professional HCPC registration and adhering to the standards of practice as set by the HCPC.
* Informing the Medicare clinical team immediately if subjected to any regulatory hearing, caution, restriction to practice or suspension.
* Attending urgent and emergency calls as directed by an NHS Ambulance Service.
* Working as part of a double-crewed emergency ambulance as the clinical lead.
* Supervising NQPs in the first stage of their NQP programme (NQP1).
* Providing robust and fair feedback to any NQP as required.
* Liaising with the Medicare clinical team if it is believed that an NQP or other ambulance clinicians under your supervision require additional support.
* Physically manoeuvring and lifting patients using the provided manual handling aids.
* Undertaking a manual handling dynamic risk assessment, where necessary, and requesting additional support before attempting any manoeuvre.
* When required, assisting patients in their homes, both prior to and after transportation, ensuring they have their basic needs catered for and their homes are safe. This includes highlighting and reporting areas of risk in line with the Medicare risk assessment procedures and Safeguarding policy.
* Completing all relevant operational documentation (VDI check sheets, etc).
* Adhering to Medicare policies and procedures.
* Ensuring all Medicare vehicles are thoroughly checked prior to the start of a shift, including the required equipment and roadworthiness checks.
* Ensuring all Medicare vehicles and equipment are kept clean and within relevant infection, prevention and control policies and procedures.
* Reporting any vehicle defects immediately to the Medicare management team.
* Attending any relevant/required training sessions provided by Medicare.
* Maintaining contractual key performance indicators that are within your control (journey times, pick-up times, etc).
* Identifying and reporting any equipment failures or faults at the point of identification.
* Ensuring the safe and effective disposal of all clinical waste materials.
* Risk assessing the incident scene for safety and any additional resource requirements, identifying the critically ill patient and developing a management plan to meet the presenting needs.
* Responding under emergency (or non-emergency) conditions ensuring the safety of others and driving with due regard to patient comfort, Road Traffic Regulations, your competence and with courtesy to other road users.
* Providing advice and guidance to other clinicians.
Clinical Responsibilities
* Maintaining an appropriate level of care for patients relevant to their condition within the authorised level of competence.
* Conducting a systematic examination of the patient using assessment skills and knowledge of the effects of acute/chronic illness and trauma to develop a working diagnosis.
* Timely recognition where more senior clinical intervention is required and/or conveyance to a specialist centre is indicated.
* Interacting and reassuring distressed, emotional or mentally ill persons in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act.
* Undertaking clinically appropriate assessments and interventions within the Paramedic clinical scope of practice.
* Administering medicines authorised by the company and/or Schedule 17 and 19 Human Medicine Regulations 2021.
* Transporting patient(s) and others to and from hospitals and other treatment centres in a safe and comfortable manner, reassessing the patient’s condition and responding appropriately to their needs en route.
* Recognising when to seek additional clinical support and/or training.
* Making use of appropriate clinical decision tools where relevant.
Documentation and Record Keeping
* Maintaining a high standard of clinical documentation.
* Accurately recording all elements of a clinical assessment and relevant clinical interventions to assist in the continuation of patient care.
* Ensuring the Medicare-specific vehicle forms are completed prior to the start of a shift.
* Submitting accurate and detailed incident forms to Medicare (and any NHS Trust as required).
* Maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.
* Ensuring the safe storage of all clinical documentation in respect of the Medicare control of confidential information policy as outlined within the Data Protection Act and the Caldicott Principles.
Communication
* Communicating sensitive medical information to patients and relatives in a reassuring manner whilst maintaining professionalism, empathy and confidentiality.
* Liaising with other staff and communicating patient information in a professional, confidential manner.
* Maintaining effective communication with patients, healthcare professionals, Medicare Managers and Associate Medicare Professionals.
* Maintaining effective communication with any NHS Ambulance Service control room as required.
* Ensuring any relevant individual(s) is made aware of any operational or clinical issues when appropriate.
Additional Requirements
* Providing requested information to Medicare under the company’s obligations under the NHS safer recruitment requirements.
* Providing an enhanced disclosure barring service (DBS) with a barred list information certificate.
* Competing the Medicare health assessment prior to the commencement of operational shifts.
* Maintaining compliance with all required mandatory training set by Medicare.
* Providing evidence of the vaccinations required to undertake frontline emergency work.
* Engaging with the Medicare clinician team with routine clinical supervision and appraisals.
* Maintaining an acceptable professional development portfolio as per the HCPC requirements.
* Taking responsibility for self-development and progression.
Qualifications
The following qualifications are essential for a Paramedic:
* Higher Education Diploma, FdSc or BSc(Hons) equivalent higher education qualification.
* HCPC registration.
* Full UK driving licence with no more than 3 penalty points.
* Emergency Driving qualification.
* Recent enhanced DBS with barred list information for adults and children.
The following qualifications are desired:
* Recent experience undertaking frontline emergency work.
* Advanced clinical qualifications.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
The following skills, knowledge and abilities are essential for a Paramedic:
* Experience in dealing with various patient conditions.
* Evidence of a satisfactory level of manual handling training.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Self-motivated team player.
* Demonstrate a high level of accountability and responsibility.
* Flexibility to work varying shift patterns as dictated by the service demand of the contracts.
* Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision.
* Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Experience in mentoring NQPs or other clinical grades is desirable.
Personal Characteristics
The following personal characteristics are essential for a Paramedic:
* Approachable, adaptable and caring personality.
* Appreciation of the different needs of individuals with varying degrees of mobility.
* Punctuality.
* Quality and patient-focused.
* Self-motivated and able to use initiative.
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