Clinical Practitioner Prescriber inLymington inLymington PUBLISHED 4 DEC 2023

The successful applicant should be a registered nurse or paramedic with a good background of emergency care and autonomous practice/prescribing in primary care. The role will allow an expansion of your training portfolio and scope of practice to include minor injury presentations such as suturing, plastering, and reduction of dislocations etc.. For this we will commit to support the successful candidate/s with suitable minor injury courses, immediate life support courses, x-ray interpretation course, and mentoring/competency completion. Because we recognise that full-time hours may not allow the degree of flexibility to continue working in primary care, so we welcome candidates looking for part-time hours, as well those looking for full time hours. There is also the additional option to work in out-of-hours as part of our Extended Access service seeing primary care patients.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Take history, make appropriate physical examinations, formulate differential diagnoses and formulate/manage treatment plans when working in any clinical environment.
• Refer and facilitate patient pathways through appropriate referrals to primary, community, secondary and tertiary care for patients when necessary
• Request investigations and be able to interpret radiology results.
• Prescribe medication as required within your clinical competence.
• Recognise the need and initiate emergency treatment to save life or to safeguard the interests of the patient and refer to emergency services when appropriate.
• Recognise any social needs, safeguarding concerns and act appropriately to safeguard the patient. To ensure that patients are safely discharged from our care with appropriate instructions for after care and follow up.
• To take an active role within the cross-disciplinary, multi-skilled team to ensure service quality in line with corporate goals and strategies and provide mentorship and support to junior staff when required.
• Take a person-centred approach to service delivery, based on clear understanding and experience of the modes for service delivery.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and competent clinician to become part of our friendly team at the Lymington Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) in the New Forest, Hampshire. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced primary care practitioner (nurse or paramedic) to expand their scope of practice to include minor injury presentations and gain experience in urgent care.

PHL Group aims to assist suitable candidates with their transition into a career in the thriving and fast-paced private healthcare industry.
We are looking for a talented individual to join us on permanent basis. The position holder will be given a 4 week rolling rota and we can offer between 22.5-36 hours per week.

Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period: therefore, we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. If you do not hear back from us within 2 weeks of applying, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

The main duties of the role include;

• Working as part of the clinical and operational team to deliver high standards of patient centred care.
• Effectively liaise with the multidisciplinary teams across the primary and secondary care interface as well as the PHL Clinical and Operational teams.
• Engage with key stakeholders as required, to ensure a high standard of patient centred care is being delivered.