Job summary
- Main area
- Surrey Downs Health & Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8am-8pm shifts across 7 days a week)
- Job ref
- 343-SDH&C-7270987
- Employer
- Surrey Downs Health and Care
- Employer type
- Public (Non NHS)
- Site
- Epsom General hospital
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 Pro Rata Per Annum inc Outer HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Surrey Downs Health and Care
Home First Paramedic- Surrey Downs H&C
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Surrey Downs Health & Care
The service provides joined up, coordinated care to local citizens with health and social care needs and aims to support them to live as independently as possible by offering rapid multidisciplinary assessment and support at times of crisis. The team offers a crisis response assessment within 2 hours of referral and, to mitigate the risk of a hospital admission, provides service users with a short-term, high intensity package of care in the person’s own home as an alternative to hospital admission. We have developed a 3-locality based approach to service delivery, with opportunities to be based within our Dorking, East Elmbridge or Epsom Urgent Community Response services. The teams provide a 7 day/week service from 8am to 8pm.
Main duties of the job
Post holders will be working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team including Nurses, GPs, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Support Workers, Healthcare Assistants and Administrators as well as Adult Social Care and the voluntary sector. The post holder will be working across acute hospital (Emergency Department) and community.
Paramedics have a key role within both supported discharge and prevention of admission to support individuals to optimise their independence and wellbeing.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
- The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
- CSH Surrey
- Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Surrey Council County
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To have clinical responsibility for assessment and treatment planning for adults referred from community as well as active case finding within the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit as required.
The post holder will work autonomously and in collaboration with all members of the Surrey Downs Health and Care team to deliver a safe, comprehensive and effective service including assessment, care planning, implementation of required care and review of care provision.
To work with individual patients, their carer’s and their families, involving them in decision making about their care and to develop their own health and care plans.
Carry out proactive holistic assessments to create care plans to help reduce risk of future hospital admission.
To assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment / interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
Demonstrate clinical expertise and act as a professional role model to all colleagues, both internal and external on behalf of SDHC, working as part of an integrated team taking the lead and developing services in line with the needs of the patient
To ensure that accurate and complete records of care are kept and that your own practice and practice of other team members is compliant with agreed policies, procedures, guidance and legislation in order to deliver effective patient care
To supervise junior colleagues and assistants.
To assist in the overall development of integrated care pathways within Surrey Downs Health and Care.
To collaborate with colleagues across Surrey Downs Health and Care and within the wider health and social care network to optimise patient journey, care, wellbeing and outcomes.
To participate in flexible working patterns covering extended hours across a seven day service.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
- Car driver with access to car for work
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- HCPC Paramedic Registration
- Relevant post-grad studies
Desirable criteria
- Advanced clinical practice or working towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Experience in managing the needs of complex patients in relevant care setting, i.e. community or unscheduled care
Desirable criteria
- Experience in supervising, mentoring and appraising staff
- Experience of undertaking clinical audit & evaluation
Skills/ability/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Holistic and effective Assessment skills
- Understand current trends in health and social care
- Ability to work under pressure, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Able to demonstrate evidence based clinical practice
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Allen-Block
- Job title
- Senior Paramedic
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01372735126
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