Paramedic Practitioner

Job summary

Registered Paramedic with a current registration working at an Advanced Practitioner level.

• Primary Care Experience

The successful candidate will provide highly specialised care within a Primary Care setting, to those patients with chronic and acute conditions using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based.

The Practitioner will function as part of a General Practice Team and will demonstrate competence in advanced assessment, management and treatment.

Provide expert advice and to ensure the needs of the patient are met by leading, challenging and changing practice within the community.

Work collaboratively with other health care professionals in primary and secondary care to ensure a high quality easily accessible service.

• To pro-actively support and maintain patients
• To work with the duty doctor and paramedic team to review and triage patients

Main duties of the job

• Desire to provide the best care possible
• Ability to efficiently prioritise and allocate care
• Evidence of excellent communication and listening skills
• Able to participate in on job training in relation to a range of aspects of providing physical, emotional and social care for patients using a coaching approach.
• Ability to work unsupervised on a day to day basis and to manage/ prioritise a delegated caseload independently
• Manage patient list seeing on the day acute patients
• Working as part as the duty on the day emergency team
• Able to work under pressure and to demanding timescales, organising own workload to meet changing priorities
• Able to work on own initiative and as an effective and responsible member of the team
• Able to adapt to change
• Accuracy and attention to detail, with a methodical approach
• Maintain confidentiality at all times

About us

Theale Medical Centre prides itself on its pleasant and relaxed atmosphere where the doctors, nurses, reception and administration staff work as a team and try to make a visit to the surgery as comfortable as possible for patients. We try to do our best for each and every patient providing good clinical practice and up to date treatment.

There has been a doctors surgery in Theale for over 75 years. In this time it has grown from a single doctor practice to its present size of around 11,100 patients, looked after by a team of dedicated and friendly staff.