Job overview

Join the Integrated Community Response Service and play a vital role in providing out of hospital care and enabling people to receive acute care at home rather than in hospital.  This is a new post within the service, and we are seeking a dynamic paramedic with a genuine interest in working within a community multi-disciplinary team.  An element of the job will be to work with the clinical leadership team to fully develop the paramedic role within the team. 

The Integrated Community Response Service (ICRS) provides care for adults in Hounslow via our Urgent Community Response, Hospital at Home and Complex Discharge (Home First) pathways.  There will be an opportunity to work across all these pathways and to build relationships with referrers including London Ambulance Service and primary care paramedics. Clinically the successful postholder will be supported by experienced clinicians including GPs, nurses and other allied health professionals.  They will also be supported to gain appropriate clinical supervision and development.

The postholder will be required to contribute to the service staff roster from 8am to 8pm; seven days per week on a shift basis (more details can be found in the recruitment pack)

Main duties of the job

Provide high-quality care to patients in the community who are experiencing an acute deterioration in their health, which could otherwise lead to a hospital admission. Urgent Community Response paramedics assess, manage, and treat patients in their own homes or care settings, aiming to review patients within two hours of referral. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, they play a crucial role in ensuring patients receive timely support, enabling them to recover safely at home and reducing the strain on emergency services. 

Alongside direct clinical activity the postholder will also have the opportunity to lead service development projects, coach and train internal and external staff and develop and promote the role of the urgent community response paramedic in Hounslow.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and   Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m. 

The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.