Paramedic

Job summary

In partnership with Canvey Island Primary Care Network, GP Healthcare Alliance (a federation of GP practices in Castle Point and Rochford) is hosting an innovative service to recruit a dedicated practice-based paramedic to the network. This is a full-time post, working 37.5 hours per week. The successful candidate will work across all six surgeries within our primary care network (PCN): Oaklands Surgery, Third Avenue Doctors' Surgery, The Island Surgery, The Surgery - Hawkesbury Road, The Community Practice and Canvey Village Surgery.

We envisage that the successful candidate will adopt a highly proactive and collaborative approach in helping to develop this role further and in exploring their own development needs.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high-quality, cost-effective service to the patients of the PCN: undertaking clinical assessment, diagnosing and evaluation of care while within working defined procedures and protocols set by the clinical nurse manager/clinical director.
• To be responsible for seeing patients, in practice sites and in their place of residence, who present with a wide range of minor illnesses, urgent and same day requests for treatment and chronic disease management, providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care.
• To demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills. There will be the need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.

All candidates should be qualified and registered paramedics, with experience in an acute response/emergency setting. They should be confident to triage, take comprehensive history, examine, diagnose, treat and refer for a range of minor injuries, illnesses and infections as required. Working knowledge of SystmOne would be advantageous, as would experience of ordering and interpreting tests on ICE.

About us

Canvey PCN is a network made up of 6 surgeries who have 42,000 registered patients. Our vision is to work in partnership with our colleagues and patients to provide the best primary care services in the community.

Our team includes a variety of different professionals who can offer peer support and shared learning.This role will work as part of this large team that includes:

• Advanced nurse practitioners / advanced clinical practitioners
• Paramedics
• Care coordinators
• Social prescribers
• Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
• Nurse practitioners and healthcare assistants

We encourage our team members to share ideas and to offer suggestions for how our services can be delivered to improve our patient care across our local population.

All of our PCN staff are employed by GP Healthcare Alliance (GPHA). GPHA values staff and can offer:

• NHS pension;
• A supportive and friendly working environment;
• Flexible working hours;
• We offer 38 days' holiday pro rata, including bank holidays;
• Peer support;
• Support with training and development;
• Reimbursement for parking and travel expenses for attending meetings/off site sessions.

We would welcome enquires on an informal basis by contacting Neil Magee, clinical team leader: neil.magee1@nhs.net or head of PCN development: lucy.porterfield@nhs.net.