Nurse/Paramedic Practitioner/ Physiotherapist

Integrated Care System; Colchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Colchester is seeking an experienced Nurse/Paramedic Practitioner/Physiotherapist for the Urgent Treatment service. This role involves managing urgent care presentations with clinical autonomy, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, and empowering patients to manage their care. The ideal candidate will have competencies in assessment and treatment with a focus on holistic patient care. Generous benefits include training opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Unsocial hours payments

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Registered nurse recorded on NMC register or Registered Paramedic on HCPC register.
• Professional knowledge and skills acquired through degree and specialist training.
• Proven experience within the relevant care group.

Responsibilities

• Manage assessment, diagnosis and treatment for urgent care presentations.
• Support patients with advice and direction to community resources.
• Maintain clinical records in line with current guidelines.

Skills

Good communication skills

Advanced therapeutic interventions knowledge

Specialist skills relevant to care group

Education

Registered nurse or Registered Paramedic

Degree supplemented by specialist training

Evidence of ongoing CPD

Job description

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Nurse/Paramedic Practitioner/ Physiotherapist

The closing date is 24 August 2025

We are looking for an experienced Nurse Practitioner/ Paramedic Practitioner/ Physiotherapist to work within ESNEFT's Urgent Treatment service in Colchester, providing a holistic approach to the care of individuals. The UTC is open 7 days a week with practitioners expected to work across all days.

We are looking for an experienced nurse or allied health professional who is proficient in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of minor injury, minor illness and urgent presentations as appropriate, working within the scope of professional practice and agreed guidelines and protocols.

You will work with colleagues across health, social care, mental health and the voluntary sector to ensure holistic and joined up delivery of care.

You will empower patients to make decisions about their own care and encourage them to exercise their rights and choices, signposting them to relevant community and voluntary services and supporting patient's carers and members of the integrated team with management of urgent presentations.

Main duties of the job

To utilise clinical expertise, function as an experienced clinician managing the assessment, diagnosis and treatment for patients with a range of urgent care presentations.

To have clinical autonomy regarding the clinical diagnosis and future clinical management of presenting patients through clinical assessment and the requesting and interpretation of the results of specific medical investigations

Support patients with advice, information, persuasion and direction to community resources to encourage self-management and ongoing independence

Provide support, training and advice to patients, parents and carers

To have the ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively

To maintain appropriate clinical records in line with current practice guidelines

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered nurse recorded on NMC register or Registered Paramedic recorded on HCPC register
• Professional knowledge and skills underpinned by theory and experience, acquired through degree supplemented by specialist training, experience in specialist field
• Evidence of ongoing CPD

Knowledge and Skills

• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Excellent knowledge of a range of advanced therapeutic interventions relevant to the care group including the relative benefits of each and the comparative outcomes.
• Specialist skills relevant to care group

Experience

• Proven experience within the relevant care group.
• Advanced competencies relevant to care group
• Experience of managing complex and/or highly specialist cases
• Supervising the delivery of care to patients presenting with a range of urgent care conditions
• Experience of managing and supervising the work of others

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.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust