Paramedic Practitioner
| Posting date: | 27 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 July 2024 |
| Location: | Lewisham, SE12 9PN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | U0036-24-0008 |
Summary
Job Advert One Health Lewisham have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Paramedic Practitioner to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will be available to work either a Saturday or Sunday as part of their working week. You will be supporting the GP Home Visiting Service, NHS@Home (Virtual Ward) service and Clinical Streaming at University Hospital Lewisham Emergency Department. This list is not exhaustive and you may be asked to support other services within the organisation. You will need to have at least 4 years experience post qualification to be considered. Job role: The Paramedic Practitioner will be responsible for triaging patients, performing investigative procedures when required and sign-posting patients to the appropriate community service. You will bring your clinical assessment skills, ability to diagnose and treat patients, as well as your enthusiasm to the role. A full list of duties can be found in the job description attached. To succeed you will: Be flexible, respectful and compassionate with the ability to work autonomously or as part of a team; Have the desire to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions; Be passionate about providing access to care for patients; Aspire to improve long term care for house bound patients with chronic conditions; Have at least 4 years' experience post qualification FCP qualified or willing to work towards About us: One Health Lewisham (OHL) is the integrated community provider working across SEL, delivering a variety of innovative services for patients supporting practices and PCNs. We are a forward-thinking innovation partner, striving to develop streamlined and transformative pathways which support the wider integrated care system. We are passionate about our mission to provide the best possible care for our patients, and we work hard to support and develop our team to strive for excellence. We are a fast-growing organisation, providing a range of services which are fully integrated into primary care. We deliver specialist support to some of the most complex patients in the system through our Special Allocation Service contract across all boroughs in South-East London and North East London ICSs. We also provide a range of services across Lewisham including: Urgent Care Centre at Lewisham Hospital; NHS Health Checks Programme; Home Visiting Service, led by our experienced team of paramedics; Enhanced Care Home Service; NHS@Home Service (Virtual Ward and Remote Monitoring) - We are leading the way in SEL by embedding technology at the heart of this service; and more. Hours or work: 37.5 hours per week. The successful candidate will be available to work either a Saturday or Sunday as part of their working week. Pay: £53,000 pa + £1775 weekend work allowance pa. For more information, take a look at the job description attached. We look forward to receiving your application.