Paramedic or FCP Paramedic

The FCP Roadmap is an essential part of the role, but you will be helped and supported along the way.

We will provide structured supervision, mentoring, protected learning and access to our established practice education programme for the Medical Students, GP Registrars and the rest of the Practice team.

Our aim is to help you develop confidently into a highly skilled and autonomous member of our clinical team, while ensuring that experienced clinical support is always close at hand.

You'll be able to prioritises work-life balance, well-being and professional development, in a friendly, well-run and innovative environment?

You will be required to travel between our sites (4 miles apart) and for home visits within our catchment area. On occasion you may be required to work collaboratively with our neighbouring practices to aid with cover for home visits.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Urgently respond to referrals and provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first point of contact by attending to patients, according to patients’ needs either in the practice or patient homes;
• Support, and continue the development of, an on-the-day emergency patient service in the practice;
• Accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in both emergency situations and telephone triage, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical and drug history;
• Evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking, and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral;
• Review the effectiveness of the treatment provided, making changes where necessary to improve patient outcomes;
• Maintain accurate clinical records in an efficient manner;

If you are a Paramedic or FCP Paramedic wanting a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.  

Why Join Us? 

• Work-life balance & supportive culture
• Well-structured clinical sessions to ensure fair patient contact
• Team well-being is a priority, with a culture of support, and collaboration
• Training practice - we support GP registrars and medical students
• Regular clinical and educational meetings fostering continuous learning and development
• Embracing digital innovation - streamlined document workflow management and digital tools to reduce administrative burden
• High QOF achievement and dispensing practice benefits
• Rural setting with a good balance of deprivation and affluence, providing a rewarding and varied clinical caseload.
•  A fantastic multidisciplinary team: work alongside GPs, nurse practitioners, paramedics, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and a paramedic home-visiting service
• A well-run and supportive practice management team ensuring smooth operations
• A collaborative, friendly and professional team environment that values everyone's contributions.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.