Paramedic

Job summary

As a Primary Care Paramedic, you will play a crucial role in supporting our clinicians and reducing GP workload, by providing high-quality care to patients. You will be responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and managing a range of health conditions, working both independently and collaboratively within the practice, on home visits in the community and within the residential and nursing homes in our catchment area. Our paramedic would be fully supported by the clinical team of GPs and nurses to provide to provide clinical care in clinics and on home visits and during care home ward rounds. Our paramedic would have direct access, when needed, to a GP.

Main duties of the job

• Conduct patient assessments: assessing, managing, treating, referring and/or signposting patients with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions relating to minor illness or minor injury.
• Using advanced clinical skills to provide education to service users, promoting self-care and empowering them to make informed choices about their treatment.
• Work alongside GPs and other healthcare professionals to deliver integrated care.
• Manage acute and chronic conditions, ensuring timely and effective interventions.
• Participate in health promotion and disease prevention activities.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient records.

About us

• Bottisham Medical Practice is a semi-rural practice just North of Cambridge within the Cambridge City PCN.
• Patient population ~ 5900 patients.
• We provide medical services to our local care homes.
• We do not staff the extended hours or out of hours services.
• Opening hours: Monday Friday, 8:30am – 6pm. No weekends.
• Our team is our greatest asset – a friendly team with a warm caring ethos where patient continuity is valued. 3 of our 7 GPs were former trainees at the practice. We have a practice manager, operations manager and workflow team. The workflow team ensure a low admin load for the clinical team due to their excellent coding and care navigation.
• We close for half a day a month for a team pizza lunch and training.
• Access to a centrally funded visiting team(JET and UWAC) to share our home visits.
• We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Primary Care Paramedic to join our multidisciplinary team to assist us in our delivery of medical services to our community.

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