ECP/Nurse - Integrated Neighbourhood Team

Primary Care Careers; Leigh on Sea; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Leigh on Sea is seeking an ECP/Nurse for the Integrated Neighbourhood Team. This full-time role involves advanced clinical practice, patient assessment, and care management. The ideal candidate will hold registration as a paramedic, have experience in primary care, and demonstrate strong communication and decision-making skills. This position focuses on delivering holistic care and supporting patients transitioning from hospital to home, contributing to community health initiatives.

Qualifications

• Registered paramedic with current HCPC registration and post-registration experience.
• Proficient in assessing, planning, treating and referring patients.
• Ability to evaluate patient care confidently.

Responsibilities

• Undertake advanced practice using expert knowledge and clinical skills.
• Assess patients with various conditions and develop treatment plans.
• Advocate for patients, ensuring their needs are met.

Skills

Assessment and planning

Patient-centered care delivery

Communication skills

Autonomous practice

Knowledge of primary care conditions

Education

Registered paramedic with HCPC registration

Job description

ECP/Nurse - Integrated Neighbourhood Team

The SS9 North and South has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and enthusiastic emergency care practitioner (ECP) / Nurse to join our INT team. You will be based across all practices with the SS9 North and South PCN's. This role is offered on a full-time basis for 37.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care.
• Assess patients with a range of conditions; take history, examine, assess risk, formulate differential diagnoses and develop, implement and evaluate treatment and management plans.
• Plan, assess and provide patient-centred treatment plans in collaboration with patients, families and carers.
• Advocate for patients and families, ensuring needs, wishes and rights are safeguarded.
• Refer patients to appropriate services and organisations, ensuring timely escalation of concerns.
• Provide follow-ups and welfare checks to assess progress and ensure safety.
• Request appropriate investigations, including pathological investigations and diagnostic imaging, according to procedures.
• Empower patients through clear explanation of assessment findings, treatment plans, investigations and options.
• Advise patients on general health, health promotion, illness prevention and self-care strategies.
• Work within licence restrictions, professional scope and boundaries of competence; acknowledge and escalate limitations when necessary.
• Attend relevant meetings and represent PACT professionally, sharing outcome data and accessing resources that support patients and reduce admission risk.
• Manage clinical caseload and provide operational oversight of workflow and activity levels relevant to the service.
• Be able to use digital and information technology systems to plan, record and audit care.

About us

The Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) operates across both SS9 North and SS9 South Primary Care Networks (PCNs), providing essential support to patients who are housebound or transitioning from hospital care back into the community. The teams primary aim is to deliver person-centred care in a timely and coordinated manner, helping individuals remain safely at home, optimise their independence, and reduce the likelihood of unnecessary hospital re-admissions.

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about thisrole, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Be a registered paramedic, with current HCPC registration and have post-registration experience, ideally with some being in primary care;

Experience

• Be able to effectively assess, plan, treat and refer patients;
• Be able to evaluate patient care confidently;
• Have experience of working to protocols and guidelines;
• To exhibit excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills;
• Have the ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively;
• Understanding of the need to work within the parameters of one's own training and capability, according to the Health and Care Professions Council;
• Experience of autonomous practice working and multi-professional team working;
• Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care.

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.