Vacancies at Hedena Health

An exciting opportunity has become available at Hedena Health to join the acute hub team in a fast growing and innovative practice as a Paramedic or Advanced Practitioner. 

We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated Paramedics to join our well-established, friendly and supportive team. We aim for the highest standards of care for our patients and work in a diverse multi-disciplinary team consisting of GPs, GP trainees, Practice Nurses, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Social Prescribers, Community Health and Wellbeing Workers and a Mental Health Nurse. Equally important is our innovative approach to patient care, and our ethos of team working and personal/career development. 

If you’re new to Primary Care or currently working in primary care we’re keen to support your personal development through the HEE Advanced Practice Roadmap. If you’re a qualified Advanced Practitioner we’ll continue to support you with annual study leave, CPD sessions and regular team training. We value the right attitude, personality and your ability to demonstrate commitment, intelligence and forward thinking. Subject to funding and eligibility we’re keen to support staff to become non medical prescribers. If this is you, then we’d love to meet you!

Main duties of the job

The core focus of this role will be working within the Practice’s Acute team based at Bury Knowle Health Centre in Headington. The Acute team focus’ on treating patients across the lifespan with acute illnesses ideally on the day and often acting as a first point of contact for patients to the practice. 

Alongside the Acute Hub, there’s the opportunity to work within our developing integrated neighborhood team supporting patients in the community and providing acute and chronic treatment at home to help prevent hospital admission.

You’ll need to provide and maintain a high standard of care to patients and support the Practice with other tasks as needed. This will include assessment, diagnosis, treatment and referral of patients depending on their needs. 

In the course of their work, the Practitioner will:

• Maintain contemporaneous clinical records for all patient assessments ensuring timely documentation 
• Deliver evidence-based and patient-focused care, ensuring the patient’s care, dignity, confidentiality and wishes are always respected, working autonomously within their scope of practice and seeking support when needed.
• Ensure the safety of themselves, colleagues and patients by staying vigilant about infection prevention and control, following practice policies. 

About us

We are in an ideal location in Oxford next to the beautiful Bury Knowle Park. We have a focus on staff wellbeing through initiatives such as an annual Away Day, staff outings and a Hedena running club. Fresh fruit deliveries and homemade cakes and goodies are a staple in our staff room and morning coffee is in our sunny Quad!

As well as being a well-established training practice, we regularly support Student Nurses in clinical practice and have helped to train Nursing Associates in the surgery. From Summer 2024 we’ll also be supporting undergraduate student Paramedics as a placement provider. 

We work collaboratively with other services in Oxfordshire to develop improved ways of providing excellent care for our patients. We have been successful in managing public health initiatives to improve the lives of the communities we serve and in promoting collaboration with neighboring practices to ensure the best for our patients.

Benefits

• Parking on site
• 6 weeks annual leave
• Your birthday off as an additional day's leave
• Study leave
• CPD sessions
• Team training

Person Specification

Essential

• Full registration as a Paramedic with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Nurse with the NMC
• Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal development
• Experience managing a diverse and constantly changing caseload, prioritising and recognising unwell patient effectively
• Experience working Microsoft windows and Microsoft office applications
• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Able to listen, empathise with people and provide person-centred support in a non-judgmental way
• Able to get along with people from all backgrounds, respecting lifestyles and diversity
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Able to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating them to reach their potential
• Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide range of people
• Able to identify risk and assess/ manage risk when working with individuals
• Understanding of when it is necessary to refer people back to other health professionals/ agencies
• Able to prioritise and finish work tasks
• Able to develop effective working relationships with colleagues within and outside the practice
• Personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
• Ability to analyse and interprets complex/ often incomplete information, preemptand evaluate issues, and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues
• Able to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team and to one's own initiative
• Able to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
   

Desirable

• Non-medical prescribing qualification
• Working towards an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent
• Completion of level 6/7 higher education modules in patient assessment/ management of minor illnesses
• Completion of additional primary/ urgent care courses such as the College of Paramedics Diploma in Primary and Urgent Care or Royal College of Surgeons Diploma in Urgent Medical Care
• Knowledge, skills and experience
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience working with Primary Care clinical record systems (e.g EMIS)
• Experience of working within a primary care setting

Qualifications/Education

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