Paramedic: Intermediate Care

This is a 9 month fixed term position to cover maternity leave.

Are you passionate about promoting independence within our community? Newton Abbot locality are searching for a dynamic and highly skilled practitioner as a paramedic working in the Newton Abbot area. We are seeking an enthusiastic paramedic with community experience to work within our locality.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, have the ability to manage and prioritise their own caseload, whilst working as a member of the integrated healthcare team. The applicant needs to be flexible and able to meet the challenges of working in a busy community setting. This role will support Intermediate Care and at times the Community Nursing team in the management of patients with acute and long-term conditions; preventing unplanned admissions to hospital.

First responder to urgent, emergency and routine referrals into team. Working alongside therapy and nursing staff and as sole practitioner.

Be responsible for the assessment, care, treatment of patients as an operational practitioner, working in a variety of locations such as patients’ homes, care homes.

Provide effective clinical leadership, development and mentorship to operational personnel to support the delivery of a high quality patient centred service.

Assist in the development of an integrated approached to the delivery of care involving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations, particularly within the primary care field.

Provides clinical supervision to other staff and students

May undertake research, lead clinical audits in own area of Intermediate care.

You will be joining a friendly, welcoming and truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home and support patients in their own homes. Our Health and Wellbeing Team is an integrated professional team which includes Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers and the voluntary sector. The team are proactive and have a forward-thinking core that promote a positive and a ‘can do’ attitude. The successful candidate will be dynamic and key in managing patients to remain in their own home.

Our team is based at Sherborne House and provides a community service to the residents in the Newton Abbot locality. The multi- disciplinary community team have a hard-working, flexible and can-do approach. The team are a supportive and friendly, adapting to the ever changing demands on the service. The team offers great opportunity for clinical development (CPD), with regular in-house team training and support of attendance of external professional development courses.

Why work with us

The Government has formally announced that it intends to introduce regulations that will require most healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated (1st and 2nd dose) against COVID-19 by 1st April 2022. To achieve this the successful applicant must have had their 1stCOVID-19 vaccination by 3rd February 2022. Therefore, full COVID-19 vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an individual is medically exempt. We will ask for proof of vaccination or exemption during the recruitment process.

Clinical Assessment skills:

• To undertake holistic, comprehensive assessments, including both risk assessment on behalf of the team and medical assessments involving a thorough examination of a patient’s medical, social and emotional state, using analysis and interpretation in order to determine the most appropriate plan of intervention.
• To provide on-going analysis & assessment of the medical needs of patients and carers in the community and, when planning a programme of care, to consider the delegation to suitably qualified staff in order to facilitate the level of care agreed.
• Responsible as an autonomous practitioner for complex decision making using local care pathways and working as part of an MDT to reduce conveyance and subsequent ED admission.
• To carry out care that is evidence-based and use judgement and analysis to compare treatment options.
• Subcutaneous/intramuscular therapy and diabetic injections
• Wound assessments and management
• Blood glucose monitoring
• Health promotion
• Undertaking basic cardiac and respiratory assessments
• Pulse oximetry and interpretation
• Recording and interpretation of ECGs
• Recognising and managing emergency situations e.g. treatment of anaphylaxis and cardiac/respiratory arrest
• Undertake and interpret acute observations using an appropriate tool e.g. NEWS, ABCDE. Ability to recognise and act on deteriorating patients.
• Hold or are prepared to undertake the Non-Medical Prescriber course.

For more information please refer to attached Job Description