Nurse/Paramedic Practitioner/ Physiotherapist

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Tendring; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization seeks experienced Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, or Physiotherapists for their Urgent Treatment service in Clacton. The role emphasizes holistic patient care, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of minor injuries and illnesses in a collaborative team environment. Comprehensive support, training, and development opportunities are offered alongside a generous benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Experience as a Nurse Practitioner, Paramedic, or Physiotherapist.
• Proficient in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of urgent presentations.
• Ability to work autonomously and in collaboration with other health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide urgent care and manage a range of patient presentations.
• Support patients with advice and self-management resources.
• Maintain clinical records and adhere to practice guidelines.

Skills

Assessment

Diagnosis

Treatment of minor injuries

Holistic care

Empowerment of patients

Education

Nursing qualification or equivalent

Job description

We are looking for an 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 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. 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.

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

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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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Elizabeth Addison Job title: UTC Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07866 048137