Paramedic

Home Visits

Undertake

home visits as your primary activity, attending patients who have been triaged

and allocated to you by a GP, assessing and treating them in their place of

residence across a wide range of urgent, same-day and chronic-disease-related needs. Act

as an autonomous clinician in the home setting, using sound clinical judgement

and escalating to a GP where a case falls outside your scope of practice. Prioritise

and sequence home visits sensibly across the day, taking account of clinical

urgency and geography across the four practices.

Care Home

Support

Support

care home ward rounds, working alongside GPs and care home staff to review and

manage the needs of care home residents. Identify

and proactively manage patients at risk of deterioration or hospital admission,

in line with locally agreed pathways.

Minor

Illness Clinics

Run

minor illness clinics, providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first

point of contact for patients presenting with minor and same-day illness. Diagnose

and manage acute and chronic conditions, combining drug and non-drug treatment

approaches into a coherent management plan.

You will

provide high-quality, patient-centred clinical care across the practices of the

Eye locality Eye, Debenham, Mendlesham and Fressingfield as one of a team

of four paramedics working together across these sites.

Your work will

be centred primarily on home visits, alongside supporting care home ward

rounds, running minor illness clinics, and taking on other clinical work as

needed. The purpose of the role is to extend the reach and capacity of general

practice: assessing, diagnosing and treating patients who would otherwise add

to GP workload, and freeing GP time for the patients who need it most.

You will work

within defined clinical protocols and scope of practice, with support and

guidance from GPs, but you will be expected to function as a confident,

autonomous clinician in your day-to-day decision-making, particularly in the

home visiting setting.

All patients

requiring a home visit are triaged and clinically assessed by a GP before

allocation to you, so you will always be visiting with a clear clinical picture

and rationale already established, and with a GP available to you throughout

the day for advice or escalation.

You will need

to demonstrate safe, sound clinical decision-making and strong assessment and

diagnostic skills, and to prioritise and assess patient need appropriately,

including making referrals for further investigation or care where necessary.

Home Visits

Undertake

home visits as your primary activity, attending patients who have been triaged

and allocated to you by a GP, assessing and treating them in their place of

residence across a wide range of urgent, same-day and chronic-disease-related

needs.

Act

as an autonomous clinician in the home setting, using sound clinical judgement

and escalating to a GP where a case falls outside your scope of practice.

Prioritise

and sequence home visits sensibly across the day, taking account of clinical

urgency and geography across the four practices.

Care Home

Support

Support

care home ward rounds, working alongside GPs and care home staff to review and

manage the needs of care home residents.

Identify

and proactively manage patients at risk of deterioration or hospital admission,

in line with locally agreed pathways.

Minor

Illness Clinics

Run

minor illness clinics, providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first

point of contact for patients presenting with minor and same-day illness.

Diagnose

and manage acute and chronic conditions, combining drug and non-drug treatment

approaches into a coherent management plan.

Wider

Clinical Duties

Take

on ad hoc clinical work across the four practices as needed, in agreement with

your line manager and the GPs you support.

Recognise,

assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.

Undertake

telephone triage as appropriate to support clinics, home visits and access to

GPs.

Evaluate

clinical information from examination and history-taking, and initiate

appropriate treatment, referral, or hospital admission where required.

Signpost

patients to other services within locally agreed healthcare pathways.

Maintain

accurate, systematic documentation of all patient contacts and clinical care

provided, including adverse events.

Advise

and support patients on healthy lifestyles, health promotion and disease

prevention.

Provide

clinical advice to other members of the team where appropriate.

Support

GPs with other clinical duties as required, for example assisting with ECGs or

other nursing tasks where a nurse is not available.

underpinning the role

Build

and maintain good working relationships across all four practices and with the

wider community team and aligned care homes.

Plan

and organise your workload in coordination with the wider paramedic team, and

support colleagues, patients and carers.

Contribute

to how the team organises and coordinates its work across the four practices

and be open to taking on wider coordination responsibilities within the team as

it develops.

Enrol

in, undertake and qualify from the FCP/Advanced Practice roadmap to practice.

Attend

meetings relevant to your role, as agreed with your line manager.

Undertake

any other duties commensurate with your grade, as agreed with your line

manager.

Professional

Input

to and extract information from clinical IT systems.

Work

collaboratively with other members of the healthcare team, including care home

staff, the ambulance service and secondary care.

Help

maintain the wellbeing of patients and staff in accordance with practice and

Suffolk Primary Care policies.

Undertake

clinical audits in line with the organisation's clinical audit plan and

participate in equipment testing and research as required.

Contribute

to the analysis of information to inform future development of the service.

Participate

and contribute to clinical meetings.

Identify

risks to service provision and raise them with the Clinical Lead.

Work

within the requirements of data protection legislation as it applies to patient

records.

Adhere

to the HCPC Code of Professional Conduct and practise at all times within your

scope of professional practice.

Maintain

current professional registration and indemnity.

Suffolk Primary Care (SPC) is a forward-thinking partnership of GP surgeries across Suffolk. Our collaborative approach enables doctors and staff to share resources, ensuring the continued delivery of high-quality healthcare.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities and encourage applications from all qualified individuals.

Benefits of Working with SPC

NHS Pension Scheme

Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Additional Benefits

At SPC, we invest in our staffs professional growth and well-being, fostering a positive work environment that benefits both our team and the communities we serve.

Qualifications

Experience