# First Contact Paramedic (FCP) **Company**: Holmhurst Medical Centre **Location**: Redhill **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: part-time **Salary**: Depending on experience **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A1379-26-0003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_eca500fb-f80 ## Description We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Paramedic to join our friendly and supportive GP practice team to deliver high-quality acute same day care and support with home visits at least one day a week. The successful candidate will play a key role in assessing, treating, and managing patients with urgent but non-emergency clinical needs, helping to improve access to care and support continuity for our patient population. **Main duties of the job** - Provide autonomous clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for patients presenting with acute same day problems. - Undertake home visits for housebound and vulnerable patients. - Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, reception staff, pharmacists, and the wider multidisciplinary team. - Manage a varied caseload safely and effectively within scope of practice. - Support care planning, admission avoidance, and appropriate onward referrals. - Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records using the practice clinical system. - Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives within the practice. **Job responsibilities** - Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness - Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols - Providing counselling and health education - Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate - Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards - Collecting data for audit purposes **Person Specification** - Qualifications: + Essential: Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Paramedic registration, First Contact Paramedic qualification, able to operate at an advanced level of clinical practice, full UK driving license, two years minimum experience as a Paramedic. + Desirable: Non-medical prescribing qualification, experience using SystmOne. - Experience: + Essential: Is a qualified First Contact Paramedic Level 6 registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), has experience in urgent care, community care, primary care, or emergency medicine, demonstrates excellent communication and clinical decision-making skills, is confident working independently while also valuing teamwork, has a compassionate, patient-centred approach, holds a full UK driving licence. + Desirable: Experience working in Primary Care, aware of common chronic and acute illnesses in a GP setting, evidence of working across organizational boundaries within health and social care, independent thinker with good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills, clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills. **Additional information** - 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. - Applicants must have current UK professional registration. ## Skills ### Required - Paramedic - First Contact Paramedic - Clinical assessment - Diagnosis - Treatment - Care planning - Communication skills ### Nice to have - Non-medical prescribing qualification - SystmOne - Primary Care experience --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A1379-26-0003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)