Emergency Care Practitioner/Advanced Clinical Practitioner

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

Mount Farm Surgery is seeking an experienced emergency care practitioner or advanced clinical practitioner to join our teaching GP practice in Suffolk. This part-time role requires a minimum of 2 days per week and offers scope to develop the role with the right candidate.

You will manage face-to-face acute on-the-day patients, including telephone triage, home visits, prescribing, and medication reviews. The ideal candidate is a registered paramedic with HCPC registration, has post-registration

Qualifications

• Be a registered paramedic with HCPC registration and post-registration experience.
• Experience working independently as an ECP or ACP.
• Able and willing to undertake home visits and care home visits.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and good communication.

Responsibilities

• Telephone triage of acute patients.
• Home visits to patients and care homes.
• Prescribing and undertaking medication reviews.
• Provide patients with information and guidance on health promotion strategies.

Skills

Paramedic with HCPC

ECP/ACP experience

Home visits

Interpersonal skills

Own transport

After-hours availability

Education

Master’s degree

Job description

About the Role

Mount Farm Surgery are seeking an experienced emergency care practitioner or advanced clinical practitioner to join our innovative and professional teaching practice in Suffolk. This position is offered on a part‑time basis for a minimum of 2 days a week, but this is negotiable for the right candidate. Working with our existing ECP and the wider practice team, the successful post-holder will manage face to face our acute 'on the day' patients.

Duties will include;

• Telephone triage.
• Home visiting.
• Prescribing and undertaking medication reviews.
• Provide patients with information and guidance on health promotion strategies.

There is scope to develop this role according to the interests of the successful candidate.

Early application is advised as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if sufficient suitable applications are received.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, flexible team player who has the following skills and experience;

Essential:

• Be a registered paramedic, with current HCPC registration and have post-registration experience, ideally with some being in primary care.
• Experience working independently as an ECP or ACP.
• Able and willing to undertake visits to patients’ homes and to care homes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Own transport.
• Ability to work outside working hours when necessary.

Desirable:

• Educated to Master’s degree level.
• Independent prescribing qualification.
• Teaching qualification.

About Us

Mount Farm Surgery is a modern, efficient, and well-equipped GP surgery in the Moreton Hall area of Bury St. Edmunds.

First established in Looms Lane in Bury St. Edmunds, we moved to the Moreton Hall Estate approximately thirty years ago, which was built on the original Moreton Hall farmland at the top of Mount Road (hence the name ‘Mount Farm’). The practice currently has just over 16,000 registered patients.

Proactive and holistic care: We endeavour to offer proactive care to ensure the best of health for our patients. Often health issues are related to other aspects of a patient’s lifestyle, and we believe in helping patients improve their overall health and well‑being, wherever possible taking the opportunity to prevent illness and not just treat it. We routinely check up on patients with long‑term conditions to ensure we are providing effective care. We also run a series of clinics and patient workshops that provide valuable help and support to those dealing with long‑term conditions such as asthma and diabetes.

A GP training practice:

Some of our GPs have the additional skills, experience, and qualifications to support qualified registrars through their vocational training to become a GP. This also ensures that our own services are in line with the latest medical knowledge and practices.

Suffolk GP Federation:

We are members of the Suffolk GP Federation, a not‑for‑profit federation of 61 independent GP practices covering 540,000 patients. The federation promotes collaboration to improve services for patients, share best practice, and address issues that cannot easily be resolved by individual practices.

Bury St Edmunds Primary Care Network (PCN):

In July 2019 a local primary care network (PCN) was formed between Angel Hill Surgery, Guildhall & Barrow Surgery, Mount Farm Surgery, Swan Surgery and Victoria Surgery serving our combined 65,000 patients in Bury St Edmunds and the surrounding villages. We have a Clinical Director who leads us in having a real impact on the shape of primary care in our local area. Part of this is through better collaboration as we are able to employ more specialist clinical staff that a single practice could not do.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.