Clinical Supervisor - Paramedic

Are you a Paramedic seeking a new opportunity? We have a Community Paramedic position available within the Rapid Response team, based at South Petherton Community Hospital!

Our service covers the urban and rural areas of Somerset. Shifts include 8,6pm, 10,8pm or 1,11pm, 7-days a week, including Bank Holidays. We offer flexible working solutions where possible to ensure a work-life balance and part-time hours will be considered.

You'll need to be a car driver with your own vehicle to visit patients. We offer a generous mileage allowance to cover the use of your car for NHS business, which includes both mileage and depreciation.

If you're a Paramedic looking for a rewarding challenge to advance your career, join our friendly, and highly skilled team of nurses, paramedics, therapists and pharmacy technicians.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will act as an autonomous practitioner, within their boundaries of clinical practice with the freedom to make clinical decisions based wholly on their experience, knowledge, and analytical skills.

They will require excellent communication skills and can work in a multidisciplinary environment under pressure. As a Clinical Supervisor, you will oversee each shift, providing shift management and clinical support to a team of Nurses, Paramedics, Therapist's, Senior Healthcare Support Workers, Assistant Practitioners and students, and along with the Therapists, will have team responsibility for the caseload management of the patients.

Rapid Response is a service which aims to meet patients' urgent care needs at home by providing urgent clinical, therapy or support interventions to keep a patient in their place of residence, which is key in improving patient outcomes, preventing avoidable hospital admissions and delivering NHS strategic priorities.

The service is part of the Urgent Community Response agenda and will respond to a referral to meet the UCR national guidelines. Part of the UCR agenda is to respond to non-injured patients who have fallen within two hours of referral.

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!