Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Paramedic - Acute Visiting Service

Primary Care Careers; Tendring; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in the UK is looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Paramedic to enhance their acute visiting service. The successful candidate will provide high-quality clinical assessments for patients in the community while supporting vulnerable individuals and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. A non-medical prescriber qualification is required, along with advanced clinical assessment skills and the ability to work in stressful scenarios. Join a friendly team dedicated to patient care in Tendring, England.

Qualifications

• Must be a non-medical prescriber capable of managing a wide range of acute presentations.
• Experience in performing in stressful and complex situations.
• Ability to take on an expanded role in primary care.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high-quality visiting service for patients requiring same-day clinical assessment.
• Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Support frail and vulnerable patients.
• Deliver timely autonomous clinical decision making.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment skills

Sound clinical reasoning

Flexibility

Education

Professional registration with relevant professional body: NMC, HCPC

Post-graduate qualification in specific speciality

Non-medical prescriber

Job description

Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Paramedic - Acute Visiting Service

St James Surgery in Clacton is looking to recruit an advanced clinical practitioner/paramedic to join our multi-disciplinary team, strengthening our acute visiting service.

The post holder must be a non-medical prescriber and capable of managing a wide range of acute presentations seen in primary care. Youwill have developed the skills and knowledge to allow you to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a high quality visiting service for patients requiring same day clinical assessment within the community
• Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions
• Support frail and vulnerable patients
• Deliver timely autonomous clinical decision making

About us

We are a large, friendly, hardworking surgery with our main surgery located in Clacton and a branch in St Osyth. We are anEMIS Web practice with a patient list size of 15,200 patients.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional registration with relevant professional body: NMC, HCPC
• Post-graduate qualification in specific speciality, or equivalent experience
• Non-medical prescriber

Experience

• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• Ability to perform in stressful and complex situations
• Sound clinical reasoning and decision making
• Flexibility

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.