ARRS Paramedic
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 17 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £18.00 i £19.00 yr awr |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £18.00 - £19.00 an hour |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Redditch, B97 4AJ |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | A2939-25-ARRSP |
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Job Purpose/Main responsibilities of role: The Paramedic will be employed under the ARRS scheme and will provide professional and clinical care to ensure the safe, effective, and compliant delivery of services to all patients. The postholder will work autonomously within the practice and community using enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills, providing first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems. This includes minor illness or injury, abdominal pain, chest pain, and headaches. They are health professionals who have the capability to make sound judgements in the absence of full information and to manage varying degrees of risk when there are complex, competing or ambiguous information or uncertainty. The Paramedic will work within the MDT in the practice, delivering high-quality, evidence-based care. Key Working Relationships Summary Clinical Lead: The Paramedic will work alongside the Clinical Lead, upholding clinical compliance, performing audits, and providing guidance. Service Coordinator / Practice Manager: For operational matters such as rota planning, absence, and appraisals. Multidisciplinary Team: Including GPs, nurses, and AHPs, working collaboratively to support patient care. Clinical Responsibilities & Key Skills Assess and triage patients, including same-day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the team. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services. Be able to: o Perform specialist health checks and reviews o Perform and interpret ECGs alongside other results as appropriate o Perform investigatory procedures as required o Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc. o Perform investigatory procedures needed by patients and those requested by GPs Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans. Provide an alternative model to urgent and same-day home visits for the practice and undertake clinical audits. Communicate at all levels and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centred service. Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required. Collaborate with other members of the team, including doctors, nurses, and other AHPs, accepting referrals and referring to them for specialist care. Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice. Prescribe, issue, and review medications as appropriate, following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways, in accordance with evidence-based practice and within scope of practice. Work with patients to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments. Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication, medication regimens, side-effects, and interactions. Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis and patients with complex needs. Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective and plan clinical care accordingly. Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent, or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care. Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan. Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care. Quality Requirements Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, and impart knowledge and skills to colleagues to meet the needs of the service. Be verified against the paramedic primary care roadmap. Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics. Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking, and formal evaluation. Participate in research and utilise the audit cycle to evaluate the quality of work, implementing improvements where required. Collaborate with other clinical teams on improving the quality of health care, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate. Administrative Requirements Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultations, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures. Be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation, and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information. Review and process data using accurate read codes to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes Supervision The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the practice to provide general advice and support on a day-to-day basis.