Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Practice Paramedic Practitioner to join our friendly growing team at Alvaston Medical Centre. We are a busy fast paced proactive surgery offering outstanding care to our patients.

• Are you looking for your nextchallenge?
• Can you work autonomously and part of a team?

We are a friendly and supportive teamwho work collaboratively in a forward-thinking practice. We have regular team meetings and are open and transparent, we encourage team building events and offer excellent progression opportunities.

This role is flexible over a working week, working hours and days can be discussed atinterview stage.

If you are interested please feel free to contact us for a visit to see Alvaston atwork.

Main duties of the job

Managing the on-the-day demand for acute issues.

We actively support in-house development and career progression. We haveregular clinical meetings to discuss cases, role development and provideclinical teaching. We have in-house experience in mentoring through EnhancedClinical Skills, Prescribing and ACP Masters qualifications

Main duties of the job

Assess patients presenting with acute illness or for review of chronic disease conditions.

Undertake home visits for acute illness or chronic disease management.

Assess, diagnosis, plan, implement and evaluate interventions / treatments for patients with complex needs and follow up as appropriate.

Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.

Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services.

Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc.

Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans as this process develops ( monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients living in sheltered housing).

Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit.

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.

About us

We have 3 Proactive Partners here at Alvaston and a strong clinical team which includes salaried GP's, Physician Associates, ANP's, Practice Nurses and HCA's and as a dispensing practice we have a team of Clinical Pharmacists on have an external team supporting us also, consisting of a Physiotherapists, Midwife, Social Prescribers, Care- coordinators and Mental health nurses. We are also a teaching practice and have registrars and students on site throughout the year.

We are actively expanding our building and team to our growing population and have a strong PPG who engage and support us in gaining patient feedback, thus helping us to identify opportunities to improve our services on offer.

We are easily accessible from the M1, A50 and A52 and a number of our team are based in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will be supported through indirect supervision to beresponsible for assessing, and diagnosing with progression to interpreting investigations, and treatingpatients within Primary Care within a developing scope of competence.

They will monitor and assistwith improving standards of care utilising clinical expertise and experiences. They will teach andsupport colleagues where appropriate, providing professional clinical leadership. Whereappropriate they will lead and / or participate in initiatives to improve standards of patient care.

The post-holder is service driven, and will be developing themselvesaround the Department of Health Guidance across the four domains of Advanced Practice, thosebeing :

1. Expert Practice

2. Practice and service development, Research and Evaluation

3. Education and Training

4. Professional Leadership and Consultancy

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

skills

Essential

Desirable