Paramedic in General Practice

Catherine House Surgery is seeking to recruit a Paramedic.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our small and friendly team to develop and evolve this new role to support our clinicians; dealing with minor ailments and home visits etc.

• Assessing and deciding treatment plan for minor illnesses e.g. respiratory tract infection, ENT symptoms, UTIs.
• Providing a triage service actively managing, treating patients within own scope of practice, or referring patients according to practice and local guidelines.
• Providing support for practical procedures e.g. ECGs
• Requesting pathology services as necessary includingprocessing and interpreting results as required
• Maintaining accurate clinical records on Systm One
• Supporting the team in managing clinical emergencies.

Catherine House Surgery is situated in the town of Totnes. We care for approx. 5,000 patients from Totnes and the surrounding area.

We are part of the South Dartmoor and Totnes PCN.

We have five GPs, one registrar, and usually two foundationyear 2 Doctors, two nurses, and one HCA. We are a teaching practice accommodating year5 medical students and physician associate students.

We aim to provide friendly, personalised, effective and high-quality General Practice Services, committed to the health needs for our patients.

• Assessing and deciding treatment plan for minor illnesses e.g. respiratory tract infection, ENT symptoms, UTIs.
• Providing a triage service actively managing, treating patients within own scope of practice, or referring patients according to practice and local guidelines.
• Providing support for practical procedures e.g. ECGs
• Requesting pathology services as necessary includingprocessing and interpreting results as required
• Maintaining accurate clinical records on Systm One
• Supporting the team in managing clinical emergencies.

• Experience of assessing and treating minor illness/injury
• Experience of working autonomously in a GP practice or minor injury unit

• Registered Paramedic with current registration with HCPC
• Minor illness/injury qualification or equivalent experience as a first contact practitioner.
• Completion of ACP qualification and non-medical prescriber

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Depending on experience

Band 6 or 7 depending on qualifications and/or experience