Paramedic

Green Vale Health PCN has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and enthusiastic Paramedic to join Flitwick Surgery.  This role is offered on a full-time basis, for 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday with 210 hours, plus bank holidays, annual leave allocation.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Respond to referrals and provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first point of contact by attending to patients, according to patients’ needs either in the practice or patient homes;
• Support, and continue the development of, a same day patient service in the practice;
• Accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in both emergency situations and telephone triage, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical and drug history;
• Evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking, and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral;
• Review the effectiveness of the treatment provided, making changes where necessary to improve patient outcomes;
• Maintain accurate clinical records in an efficient manner.

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: 

• Be a registered paramedic, with current HCPC registration and have post-registration experience, ideally with some being in primary care;
• Being an Independent Prescriber would be advantageous
• Be able to effectively assess, plan, treat and refer patients.
• Be able to evaluate patient care confidently.
• Have experience of working to protocols and guidelines.
• Exhibit excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Have the ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively.
• Have an understanding of the need to work within the parameters of one's own training and capability, according to the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Have experience of autonomous practice working and multi-professional team working.
• Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children.

Green Vale Health Primary Care Network is a newly formed PCN in Central Bedfordshire. Our mission is to improve health and care and to meet everyday health and care needs for people by connecting primary care systems and using creative thinking to develop, improve and support great local services.

Our PCN is split over two sites, Flitwick Surgery and Marston Forest Healthcare in modern facilities. We have a combined list size of approx. 25,000 patients with some 243 care home beds. We are not one of the larger PCN’s, but this smaller patient number allows us to provide first class healthcare and the ability to target diverse healthcare needs.

The sites are only a short distance apart (5 miles) but service the main population areas of Flitwick, Marston Moretaine and Cranfield as well as several surrounding villages in a rural setting, with Bedford, Milton Keynes and Luton only a few miles away.

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.