Specialist Practitioner (Urgent Care CAS) Paramedic

North East Ambulance Service; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional ambulance service in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking for a Specialist Practitioner in Urgent Care. This role involves assessing patients remotely and planning appropriate care in a multi-disciplinary environment. Candidates should be HCPC registered paramedics or NMC registered nurses with advanced clinical training. The position offers a salary between £40,057-£45,839 per annum, with options for full-time, part-time, or bank posts. Join us to make a difference in patient care across the North East.

Qualifications

• Experience in urgent or pre-hospital care setting.
• Demonstrable portfolio of significant relevant and recent CPD.
• Experience in remote clinical assessment.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients and plan care through telephone or video consultation.
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team supporting remote clinical assessments.
• Undertake continuous professional development.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Clinical reasoning

Advanced clinical skills

Education

HCPC Registered Paramedic or NMC registered Nurse

BSc in an appropriate subject

PG Diploma in Advanced Clinical Practice

Job description

Job overview

Specialist Practitioner – Urgent Care (Nurse/Paramedic)

Department: Integrated Urgent Clinical Assessment Service (IUC CAS) within emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
Salary: Band 7 £40,057-£45,839 per annum + unsocial enhancements
Are you an Advanced/Enhanced Practitioner with the skills to undertake remote assessment?
Are you looking for a less physically demanding role?
Do you want to make a difference to improve patient care on a region-wide basis?
Do you want to work within a supportive team?

We have the role for you; come and join our Clinical Assessment Service.

Main duties of the job

As Specialist Practitioner – Urgent Care you will be joining our highly skilled multi-disciplinary team, responsible for undertaking remote clinical assessments for our patients accessing our fully integrated 111/999 service.
You will be responsible for assessing patients, planning care, and referring onwards via either a telephone or video-consultation process.
This is a unique role that requires a unique set of skills and experience.
Experience of working in an urgent care and or an emergency care setting, along with some experience of telephone triage and history taking, would be advantageous.
We can offer substantive full time/ part time or bank posts.

The team comprises Drs, Pharmacists, and Advanced/Specialist Practitioners, with a wider team of Senior Clinical Advisors, Health Advisors and more; all supporting each other to ensure the best quality of care for the region’s patients and service users.
Operating 24 hrs. a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with flexible shift patterns. we offer working from one of our three sites at Newburn Riverside, Newcastle, Russell House, Hebburn or Winter House, Wynyard, Co Durham.
This is an exciting opportunity with the real chance to make a difference to the patients of the North East directing how they can access urgent care to get the right treatment in the right place at the right time.
Please join us and be part of the journey.
If you have any questions regarding the role, please do not hesitate to contact: [e-mail]

Working for your organisation

We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.

Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!

Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.

We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.

We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.

Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of "safe, effective and responsive care for all".

We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.

From 01/04/25 If your role needs a DBS you'll be subject to salary deduction totaling £49.50, spread over first and second pay.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached to this advert, where you will find full details of the role and its responsibilities.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Barbara Wells
Email: [e-mail]

Person specification

Education, Qualifications and Training

• • HCPC Registered Paramedic or NMC registered Nurse
• • Holds a BSc in an appropriate subject (or equivalent level 6 education*). As determined by the senior clinical leadership team.
• • PG Diploma (level 7) Advanced Clinical Practice or close equivalent* *As determined by the senior clinical leadership team

Desirable qualifications

• • Non-medical Prescribing qualification and registration
• • Holds the Diploma in Primary and Urgent Care College of Paramedics (Dip PUC) or Diploma in Urgent Medical Care faculty of pre-hospital care, Royal College of Surgeon’s Edinburgh (DipUMC)
• • Teaching and/or mentoring qualification.

Key skills, knowledge and aptitude

• • Ability to apply advanced clinical assessment, clinical reasoning
• • Ability to deliver advanced clinical skills and interventions

Experience

• • Significant autonomous (post preceptorship/NQP) experience in the urgent or pre-hospital care setting.
• • Demonstrable portfolio of significant relevant and recent CPD.
• • Experience of working in other clinical settings and as a solo responder
• • Experience of working in EOC/call centre/remote clinical assessment.