Urgent Treament Team Clinician

NHS; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Milton Keynes is seeking an Urgent Treatment Room Clinician to join their team, focusing on minor illness care. Ideal candidates will have experience as paramedics, pharmacists, or nurses, with a preference for those who have completed a prescribing course. This position offers a salary of £24 - £30 per hour and flexible working hours. The team is committed to providing high-quality medical and preventative healthcare in a friendly environment.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discounts

Free wellbeing resources

Qualifications

• Experience in minor illness as a paramedic, pharmacist, or nurse.
• Completion of a prescribing course is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Provide on the day care to patients via the Acute Hub.
• Participate in treatment and preventative healthcare services.
• Document all aspects of patient care and complete paperwork.

Skills

Minor Illness

Patient Care

Prescribing Knowledge

Job description

We are looking for an Urgent Treatment Room Clinician to join our busy team.

With a focus on minor illness, this vacancy would be suitable for a Minor Illness Nurse, Paramedic or with relevant experience. The completion of a prescribing course would also be ideal.

We regularly review applications, and reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role.

Hours, Salary and Benefits

• £24 - £30 per hour, depending on role and experience
• A minimum 25 days annual leave (pro-ratad), plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days with length of service
• NHS Discounts with a massive number of retailers (with a Bluelight card)
• Wellbeing resources available free to all staff

Shift Pattern 37.5 hours per weekConversations around flexible working and compressed hours are encouraged.

• Monday: 8am 4pm
• Tuesday: 8am 4pm
• Thursday: 12pm 8pm
• Friday: 8am 4pm

Main duties of the job

Working out of our Shenley Church End site in our Acute Hub you will be providing on the day care to our patients.

The team is comprised of Minor Illness Nurses, Prescribing Pharmacists and Paramedics, with a supervising GP on site to support the team throughout the day.

If you are part way through your prescribing or minor illness course we would still like to hear from you.

About us

Our ethos is to treat patients as we would expect our family members to be treated. We are proud of our caring and supportive team approach and it is important that the successful applicant fits well within our team.

We pride ourselves on being a modern, forward thinking general practice whilst retaining traditional values.

As Watling Street Practice, our three sites are within Stony Stratford, Great Holm and Shenley Church End. We are part of the Watling Street Primary Care Network and have a community team including nurses, social prescribers and social work assistant supporting our patient populations.

We strive to provide high quality, readily accessible medical and preventative health care within a well organised, efficient, up-to-date, friendly and caring environment.

Job responsibilities

Main Duties & Responsibilities (may include)

• Provide urgent, on the day care to our patients via the Acute Hub
• Participate in all treatment and preventative healthcare services in the practice as delegated and agreed by the supervising GP(s)
• Provide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines
• Consult and refer patients to physicians, medical specialists and other health professionals as indicated
• Interview patients, take medical histories, perform physical examinations, analyse, diagnose and explain medical problems during surgery consultations and home visits
• Recommend and explain appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment
• Perform specialised diagnostic physical exams and treatment procedures
• Instruct and educate patients in preventative health care
• Order laboratory tests as required and agreed under supervising doctor(s)
• Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes
• Participate fully in the clinicians duty rota including the provision of home visits when appropriate
• Formulate diagnoses and treatment plans, in consultation with or referring to supervising doctor(s) as appropriate

Person Specification

Experience

• You will be a paramedic, pharmacist or nurse with experience in minor illness
• Ideally you will have completed, or will be in the process of completing, a prescribing course

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.