Out of Hours NP / Paramedic Practitioner /AHP

NHS; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity with the NHS as an Out of Hours NP, Paramedic Practitioner, or AHP for dedicated professionals. Join a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team, providing patient-centred care and using advanced clinical skills in a clinical environment. This role promotes collaborative working and offers the chance to develop further expertise in minor illness management.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Competitive rates of pay

Out of hours enhancements

Reward and recognition system

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (NMC) or paramedic practitioner (HCPC) required.
• Experience in minor injury, emergency department or urgent care settings needed.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver autonomous care in clinical assessment and management of minor injuries and illnesses.
• Conduct telephone consultations and face-to-face assessments.
• Ensure standardisation of practice and delivery of safe care.

Skills

clinical assessment

decision-making

communication

teamwork

Education

Degree level Registered Nurse or paramedic practitioner

Non-Medical Prescriber

Recognised accredited qualification in autonomous practice

Teaching qualification

Tools

ECDL

IT literacy

Job description

Out of Hours NP / Paramedic Practitioner /AHP

Are you a Registered Nurse, Paramedic, or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with a passion for providing patient-centred care? We are seeking dedicated professionals to join our dynamic team in delivering autonomous care in the clinical assessment, examination, and management of minor illness presentations. You will utilise telephone consultations and face-to-face contact to treat patients, developing advanced clinical skills in minor illness working alongside GPs and a multi-professional workforce. This role requires excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills, highly developed communication abilities, and a commitment to working flexibly within a dynamic environment. You will ensure the standardisation of practice, delivering safe and effective care to all within the service.

As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide hands-on and face-to-face consultations to assess, diagnose, signpost, and treat patients in a timely fashion. Our team prides itself on excellent teamwork and support of one another while treating a diverse range of conditions. If you are committed to providing high-quality patient care and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join our team and make a difference in the lives of our patients.

Main duties of the job

You are responsible for the delivery ofautonomous care in the clinical assessment, examination, and management ofminor injury and illness presentations, continually advancing the boundaries ofpractice of the service.

You will be a RN, Paramedic, orAHP with the skills to autonomously assess and treat patients within ourClinical Urgent Care bases using telephone consultations and face-to-facecontact. You will have excellent clinical assessment anddecision-making skills, along with a passion for providing patient-centred careand highly developed communication skills.

You will be joining an MDT who pridethemselves on their excellent team working and support of one another whilsttreating a diverse range of conditions. This will give you the opportunity todevelop advanced clinical skills in both minor injury and illness, with the mentorshipof our GPs and a multi-professional workforce.

Be committed to working flexibly within adynamic environment, responding positively to new demands and changes. Ensurethe standardisation of practice, delivering safe and effective care to allwithin the service.

These patients may have complex needs andpotentially numerous co-morbidities, including frailty. This post is a clinicalrole where hands-on and face-to-face consultations will be undertaken toclinically assess, diagnose, signpost, and treat in a timely fashion, workingin a multi-professional team.

About us

Community Based Care Health Federation Ltd are based on TeamValley serving Primary Care in Gateshead and the wider Northeast footprint. Asa not-for-profit provider we reinvest any surplus to improve services for ourpatients in Gateshead and support our GP's and Primary Care Networks to deliverthe highest quality services.

As a provider of high quality clinical and non-clinicalservices we are a respected and proud company that puts patients at the heartof what we do, whilst valuing and supporting our staff to grow and develop. Wehave company values developed by our staff that underpin our work and the waywe work together, and we have a staff culture club to ensure the voice of ourstaff is heard at Board level and throughout the senior management team.

Many of our roles are available with the NHS pension schemeand transferable service is recognised from previous NHS employment asappropriate. We offer competitive rates of pay and out of hours enhancementsand have a fully integrated reward and recognition system. We have just beenawarded our Silver "Better Health at Work Award" where we havedemonstrated our commitment to supporting our workforce to keep well at work.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for more informationon main duties, qualifications and skills required for this role, within CBCHealth Federation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree level Registered Nurse (NMC) or paramedic practitioner (HCPC)
• Non-Medical Prescriber
• Educated to Degree level
• Recognised accredited qualification & competency in autonomous practice, Nurse practitioner
• Accredited qualification in advanced clinical assessment and examination and equivalent minor injury/illness degree/masters level programmes
• Teaching qualification

Experience

• Broad senior level clinical experience relevant to the post e.g. minor injury, walk in centre or emergency department
• Accredited history taking course
• ECDL or evidence of IT literacy
• Significant experience of working in a Band 6/7 role within emergency/urgent care settings, working as senior practitioner
• Experience of communicating delicate, complex and sensitive information at senior level
• Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal and communication skills to all stakeholders
• Evidence of ongoing CPD and professional development
• A thorough understanding of the principles of clinical governance and NHS policy issues
• Motivational and can do attitude
• Ability to cope with and diffuse difficult and stressful situations
• Evidence of an ability to prioritise workload for themselves and their team
• Experience of managing/leading staff.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter/agency working.
• Experience of liaising with statutory and non-statutory services and agencies.
• Experience of evaluating the training needs of staff and implementing appropriate training programmes.
• Experience of leading service developments and working in a busy complex environment
• Advanced level specialist skills, undertaking comprehensive assessment, making, and receiving referrals, requesting, and acting upon diagnostic tests, independent prescribing.
• Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning including the ability to reflect upon own performance and partake and lead in clinical supervision
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• 12 months + non-medical prescribing experience
• Knowledge of long-term condition management
• Specialist knowledge in respiratory, cardiac, diabetic, long term conditions and acute on the day presentations
• Experience of leading an MDT in the NHS
• Proven knowledge of the principles of risk management, the integrated governance framework and compliance with risk and quality safety standards
• Experience in change management
• Experience in leading audits and/or research
• Enhanced IT skills databases, excel, word, outlook and internet
• Excellent presentation skills with practical experience of paeds/under 16s

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.

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearenhancements for unsocial hours