Job Description
Job summary
Salary £50K to 57K depending on FCP qualification and experience
ACP trained with digital badge£60K
Sutton Primary Care Networks (PCNs) is looking to employ a Paramedic under the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) to work within our local Acute Home Visiting Service (AHVS), the role will provide continuity of care for housebound patients within Sutton. They will be accountable to the Primary Care Networks and the referring GP practices, working across PCNs to support the multi disciplinary teams and relevant services required. These individuals may also work across more than one PCN in some cases where flexibility allows and for the purposes of cross cover and to ensure general practice resilience in Sutton. You'll be joining a great team in a great place, where your commitment will be genuinely valued, your skills respected, and your ambition rewarded.
Main duties of the job
- To assess, plan, and deliver care in line with the patient's individual needs. This may include providing timely clinical interventions and resuscitation to prevent deterioration.
- To work within the community as an autonomous and accountable Paramedic Practitioner, in the provision of a holistic approach for individuals including assessment, diagnosis and treatment, to deliver quality patient services.
- Undertake home visits on behalf of the GP practice or PCN as directed and in accordance with relevant clinical guidelines. To work closely with the team of doctors and allied health care professionals to help manage their patients suffering acute/chronic diseases.
- Be prepared to assess, diagnose, treat, refer, signpost or educate patients who attend surgery with an undifferentiated or undiagnosed condition relating to minor illness or injury.
- Use advanced clinical skills to provide education to service users, promoting self-care and empower them to make informed choices about their treatment.
- Be involved in reducing unnecessary conveyance and hospital admissions, and engage effectively with patients, carers, families and other health and social care agencies when managing often complex situations.
- The post holder should have their own vehicle available for home visits with expenses remunerated in line with contractual terms.