Urgent Care Practitioner/Paramedic

Primary Care Careers; Flitwick; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare practice in Flitwick, UK, seeks an experienced urgent care practitioner for a part-time position, working four days weekly. The role involves assessing and providing care for minor illnesses, with opportunities to manage chronic diseases and women's health. Ideal candidates will be registered with NMC/HCPC and possess primary care experience. Benefits include onsite parking and NHS pension.

Benefits

Onsite parking

NHS pension

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC or HCPC.
• Experience in primary care settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care for minor illness via telephone or face-to-face assessment.
• Manage chronic diseases and/or women's health including sexual health and HRT.

Skills

Current registration: NMC/HCPC

Experience of working within primary care

Job description

Flitwick Surgery are looking for an experienced and dedicated urgent care practitioner to join our team on a part-time basis for four days a week. The post-holder will work alongside our GPs and multi-disciplinary team, via telephone or face-to-face assessment, to provide patient care for minor illness. There is scope to extend your interests with the management of chronic diseases and/or women's health to include sexual health and HRT.

The post holder will need to act within their professional boundaries, providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care.

Please note, if we have a high level of interest for this position we may close the applications early.

Main duties of the job

To be considered for this position, you will have the following:

• Current registration: NMC/HCPC
• Experience of working within primary care

We welcome applications from minor illness nurses, ANPs and paramedics.

About us

Flitwick Surgery is a GP practice with a list size of 14,500 and is run from a purpose-built medical centre with onsite parking for staff. We are a semi-rural dispensing doctor partnership with easy access for commuters from a wide area (on a direct train line to London, 25 minutes from Milton Keynes or 15-20 minutes from the M1 or A6).

We are a patient focused surgery with a multi-disciplinary supportive team including 4 GP partners, 5 salaried GPs, a nursing team including a minor illness nurse, practice nurses and HCAs. We also have a strong practice pharmacy team with clinical pharmacists and a pharmacy technician. Alongside this we are part of a PCN and supported by PCN pharmacists, FCP physios, a paramedic and a health & wellbeing Coach. We are also actively engaged in national research projects.

Benefits include onsite parking and NHS pension.

Job responsibilities

Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please see theattached job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current registration: NMC/HCPC

Experience

• Experience of working within primary care

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.