# Paramedic Practitioner

**Company**: Selsdon Park Medical Practice
**Location**: South Croydon, Surrey
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic Paramedic practitioner to join our team for minor ailment clinics, acute home visits, and patient long-term condition management. The successful candidate will work alongside GPs and other Health Care Professionals, carrying out patient assessments, supporting care plans, referring to community teams, updating records, safety netting, vaccinating, and managing patients in their right environment.

**Main duties of the job**

- Respond to patients in their own home alone or as part of a team

- Assess patients who are at risk of admission to hospital

- Support long-term condition monitoring

- Provide minor ailments clinics within the practice

- Perform relevant tests, including:

+ Urine dipstick testing and sampling   + Blood glucose testing   + Blood pressure measurement   + 12 lead ECG   + FEV1 / Peak-flow   + Wound / infection swab test   + Blood sampling for lab

- Make appropriate clinical decisions based on assessment, medical history, and suitable resources available.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary depending on experience

- Opportunity to work in a progressive and supportive environment

- Professional development and learning opportunities

**Requirements**

- Current registered Paramedic with experience as an autonomous practitioner within a minor injury/illness centre or mobile service

- Ability to work autonomously, using own clinical judgment to form a diagnosis

- Good communication skills and ability to function effectively as part of a team

## Skills

### Required
- Paramedic
- Autonomous practitioner
- Minor injury/illness centre
- Mobile service
- Clinical decision making
- Patient assessment
- Care planning
- Referral to community teams
- Record keeping
- Safety netting
- Vaccination

### Nice to have
- Experience within Primary, Secondary Care or Community
- Completed Minor Ailment / Minor Injury modules at level 6 Paramedic Practitioner level 6

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