We are looking for a qualified paramedic to join the Southampton Central Primary Care Network to provide a high standard of complex, enhanced care for patients from the initial history taking and clinical assessment through to the diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care.

Our paramedics will carry out face to face telephone triage and home visits. The role will involve a consultation with patients who present on the day and via booked appointments.

Main duties of the job

Caring for people with complex care needs using their existing knowledge and expertise, enhanced clinical assessments, diagnostics, interventions, and equipment.

Working as part of a wider health and care team whilst being able to work alone when seeing people in their own homes in the community.

Engaging and involving patients, families, and carers in co-production of strategies to manage their own health and wellbeing.

Communicate effectively in challenging environments and situations with patients, their families/carers, and the multi-disciplinary team.

Participate fully in the clinician's duty rota including the provision of home visits when appropriate.

Telephone triage as appropriate for clinics and home visits and provide access to GPs as necessary.

Accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in emergency situations, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical and drug history.

Lead and manage unpredictable and unplanned clinical situations.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Appropriate professional qualification (nursing or allied health professional) that allows registration with the NMC or HCPC.
• Professional UK registration e.g. NMC/HCPC.
• Degree level award.
• Independent non-medical prescribing or pharmacology level 7 profession relevant qualification.
• Level 7 clinical history taking and physical examination.
• Level 7 diagnostics and decision making.
• Computer literate in both data entry and communication via IT.

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent mentorship qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Detailed knowledge of current clinical and professional issues relevant to this field.
• Evidence of developing ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks and work across multi-disciplinary boundaries.
• Evidence of participation in development of clinical practice, starting to be supported by advanced theoretical practice knowledge and skills.
• Decision making that is working towards advanced level, to inform clinical reasoning approaches when managing complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• High level planning, leadership, and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
• Ability to develop positive relationship with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Engagement in evaluation, audit, or research activity.
• Confidence in the application and analysis of data.
• Demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.
• Specialist clinical skills appropriate to the relevant speciality.
• Demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.
• Specialist clinical skills appropriate to the relevant speciality.
• Organisational and self-management skills including those relating to own workload and those of others in an unpredictable environment.
• Good communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive, or confidential information in an appropriate manner to liaise effectively to understand and disseminate multifaceted information.
• Understanding of effective clinical governance including implications, quality, and audit.

Desirable

• Understanding of Health and Environment policies and legislation including clinical, human resources, equality and diversity, governance.
• Evidence of working with institutes of higher education including lecturing.
• The ability to work at problems from a unique or different angle.
• Customer service experience i.e., dealing with complaints, to manage any barriers to information.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Self-motivated with the ability to work towards developing a high degree of autonomy to deliver a range of complex priorities in a timely fashion for the benefit of the population we serve.
• To have the ability to apply emotional intelligence/self-awareness to situations whilst maintaining professionalism to affect change.
• A role model for all staff aspiring to achieve advanced clinical level working.
• Emerging engagement in forging sustainable productive relationships at all levels within the local, regional, and national health and care economy.
• Committed to partnership working with patient and carers at all levels to ensure their views are incorporated into service delivery.
• Flexibility to work across the Trust geographical localities where required.

Employer details

Employer name

Solent NHS Trust

Address

Royal South Hants Hospital

Brintons Terrace

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 0YG

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