Nurse/Paramedic Practitioner/ Physiotherapist

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Tendring; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join their Urgent Treatment service in Clacton. The role involves managing assessments and treatments for urgent care presentations while empowering patients. The organization offers a supportive environment with training opportunities, flexible working, and a generous benefits package including a pension and NHS discounts.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Proven track record at the practitioner level.
• Proficient in managing urgent care presentations.
• Ability to maintain clinical records according to guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage assessment, diagnosis and treatment of urgent care patients.
• Empower patients to make decisions about their care.
• Work collaboratively with health and social care professionals.

Skills

Assessment and diagnosis of minor injury

Patient empowerment and support

Effective communication

Education

Registered Nurse/Paramedic qualification

Job description

We are looking for an highly experienced Nurse Practitioner/ Paramedic Practitioner/ Physiotherapist to work within ESNEFT's Urgent Treatment service in Clacton, 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 a nurse or allied health professional who has a proven track record at this level, 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. This post will cover the UTC at Clacton and Minor Injuries Unit at Harwich

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

You will utilise your vast experience and clinical expertise to function as an clinician managing the assessment, diagnosis and treatment for patients with a range of urgent care presentations.

You will 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

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

You will maintain appropriate clinical records in line with current practice guidelines

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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