• Job Description

  Req#: E0049-Para-SW-1123?language=en&page=1437&sort=publicationDateDe

  Job summary

  One Wight Health are advertising this vacancy on behalf of South Wight Medical Practice.

  This role will be directly employed by South Wight Medical Practice.

  Contract: Full time, Permanent

  Salary: from £44,000 - £47,000 per annum depending on experience

  Benefits:

  Competitive salary

  Continuing education and training opportunities.

  Opportunities for career advancement.

  Supportive and collaborative work environment.

  As a Paramedic in South Wight Medical Practice, you will play a crucial role in providing essential medical care to patients in a primary care setting. You will work closely with our medical team with a holistic approach ensuring that patients receive timely and effective care. You will be responsible for triaging, assessing, and treating patients both in the Practice, on the telephone, and in patient homes.

  Main duties of the job

  You will be required to co-ordinate the on the day demand by assessing and triaging practice patients. Where appropriate, you will provide definitive treatment, or make necessary referrals to other members of the practice team.

  You will advise and support the Practice in providing education and management to patients on long-term conditions.

  About us

  South Wight Medical Practice is the only dispensing GP Practice on the Isle of Wight. Our rural Practice is based over 3 sites, and we care for a population of 6000 patients. We make up one third of the South PCN.

  Date posted

  17 October 2023

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £44,000 to £47,000 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  E0049-Para-SW-1123

  Job locations

  Blackgang Road

  Ventnor

  Isle Of Wight

  PO38 2BN

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Summary

  This role will involve working as an autonomous, accountable Paramedic, in the provision of a holistic approach for patients including assessment, diagnosis and treatment to deliver quality patient services.

  The post holder will coordinate telephone triage, taking clinical responsibility for all patients who have requested an urgent appointment. They will assess, diagnose, treat, refer, or signpost patients presenting with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions relating to minor illness or minor injury.

  The post holder will be required to perform any other clinical and clinical administrative duties where appropriately trained and determined safe to do so by the organisation. This may include assisting with medical reports, safeguarding, audit and clinic support.

  Primary Duties

  • Signpost patients to other community or voluntary services where appropriate
  • Perform specialist health checks and reviews
  • Perform investigatory procedures as required
  • Provide home visits to Practice patients, including care home ward rounds
  • Support the delivery of anticipatory care and end of life care plans
  • Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multidisciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required and accepting referrals and referring to specialist services where appropriate.
  • Prescribe, issue and review medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways. This will be done in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.

  N.B relevant if possesses prescribing qualification only.

  • Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment and or interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs within the clinical and domiciliary setting.
  • Implement and participate in vaccination programmes as appropriate.

  Quality Requirements

  The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

  • Enhance their own performance through continuous professional development, keeping up to date with current evidence-based practice.
  • Recognise and work within their own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics.
  • Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking, and formal evaluation.
  • Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of their own work and the work of the team. Implementing improvements where required.
  • In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of healthcare responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

  Administrative requirements

  • Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
  • Work in accordance with internal administrative systems relating to but not limited to the management of clinical data.

  Personal/Professional Development

  The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

  Participation in an annual individual 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.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Summary

  This role will involve working as an autonomous, accountable Paramedic, in the provision of a holistic approach for patients including assessment, diagnosis and treatment to deliver quality patient services.

  The post holder will coordinate telephone triage, taking clinical responsibility for all patients who have requested an urgent appointment. They will assess, diagnose, treat, refer, or signpost patients presenting with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions relating to minor illness or minor injury.

  The post holder will be required to perform any other clinical and clinical administrative duties where appropriately trained and determined safe to do so by the organisation. This may include assisting with medical reports, safeguarding, audit and clinic support.

  Primary Duties

  • Signpost patients to other community or voluntary services where appropriate
  • Perform specialist health checks and reviews
  • Perform investigatory procedures as required
  • Provide home visits to Practice patients, including care home ward rounds
  • Support the delivery of anticipatory care and end of life care plans
  • Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multidisciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required and accepting referrals and referring to specialist services where appropriate.
  • Prescribe, issue and review medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways. This will be done in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.

  N.B relevant if possesses prescribing qualification only.

  • Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment and or interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs within the clinical and domiciliary setting.
  • Implement and participate in vaccination programmes as appropriate.

  Quality Requirements

  The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

  • Enhance their own performance through continuous professional development, keeping up to date with current evidence-based practice.
  • Recognise and work within their own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics.
  • Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking, and formal evaluation.
  • Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of their own work and the work of the team. Implementing improvements where required.
  • In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of healthcare responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

  Administrative requirements

  • Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
  • Work in accordance with internal administrative systems relating to but not limited to the management of clinical data.

  Personal/Professional Development

  The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

  Participation in an annual individual 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.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • BSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics.
  • Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration.
  • Able to operate at an advanced level of clinical practice.
  • Framework for Higher Education Qualification (FHEQ) Level 7 or Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCOF) Level 11.

  Desirable

  • Pre-reg MSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics.
  • Non-medical prescribing qualification.

  Additional essential criteria

  Essential

  • Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal development.
  • Aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a PCN.
  • Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.
  • Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands.
  • Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes.
  • Full UK driving license.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • BSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics.
  • Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration.
  • Able to operate at an advanced level of clinical practice.
  • Framework for Higher Education Qualification (FHEQ) Level 7 or Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCOF) Level 11.

  Desirable

  • Pre-reg MSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics.
  • Non-medical prescribing qualification.

  Additional essential criteria

  Essential

  • Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal development.
  • Aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a PCN.
  • Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.
  • Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands.
  • Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes.
  • Full UK driving license.

  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.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  One Wight Health Ltd

  Address

  Blackgang Road

  Ventnor

  Isle Of Wight

  PO38 2BN

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://onewighthealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  One Wight Health Ltd

  Address

  Blackgang Road

  Ventnor

  Isle Of Wight

  PO38 2BN

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://onewighthealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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