Emergency Care Practitioner / Paramedic

The De Parys Group has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and enthusiastic emergency care practitioner/paramedic join our practice. There will be a requirement to work at any of our 5 sites as required. This role is offered on a full-time basis for 37.5 hours per week.  

• Deliver a high standard of patient care within the practice, using advanced autonomous clinical skills and a broad, in-depth theoretical knowledge base.
• Provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first point of contact by attending to patients in a variety of non-clinical settings according to the patient’s needs
• Work as part of the practice team providing care in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings (including residential care, patients’ homes and other settings as necessary)
• Support a model of ‘on the day’ care within practices.
• Work across local care interfaces in order to deliver an integrated service intended to reduce waiting times for patients accessing urgent care, reduce unnecessary A & E attendances and reduce the demand for hospital admissions by accessing the right care at the point of need.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment / interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis
• Telephone consultations: Control and manage these calls effectively by using skilled questioning, active listening, negotiation skills, probing and facilitative skills and complex communication skills to negotiate and provide support for patients who may be distressed and demanding, in a calm and professional way.
• Review patients to assess appropriate clinical pathway. This can be either face-to-face or using telephone consultations. To signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/ interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
• Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate)
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions (especially COPD, Asthma, Diabetes) integrating both drug and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan
• Prescribe as an independent non-medical prescriber and / or administer medications using Patient Group Directives (PGDs) according to agreed protocols. Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence- based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
• Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication, side effects and interactions.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• 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,
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply the principles of self-care.
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning, cervical cytology or sexual health consultation.
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
• Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Provide clinical advice to other members of the team where appropriate including attendance at MDT meetings, planning meetings and case conferences as required.
• Work with practice management to ensure that sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill-mix are available to meet current and future service delivery.

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