Urgent Care Practitioner (Exp Para Practitioner/ Nurse Practitioner) inCrawley/Gillingham inCrawley/Gillingham PUBLISHED 1 NOV 2024
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South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to 'support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities'. We are rated 'Good' for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year.
Urgent Care Practitioner (Experienced Paramedic Practitioner / Experienced Nurse Practitioner)
- Full time / Part time / bank positions available.
- Vacancies available in Gillingham, Kent or Crawley, West Sussex
- Telephone Clinical Assessment opportunity providing senior clinical advice to patients across 999 & 111 services
Are you an experienced and clinically driven Paramedic or Nurse Practitioner looking for a new challenge to utilise your existing extensive clinical experience in assessing and consulting patients remotely who contact 999 or 111?
An opportunity has arisen for Experienced Paramedic or Nurse Practitioners to join our Integrated Care (999 & 111) clinical team, based across the South East region. This is an exciting time to join South East Coast Ambulance Service, as we continue integrating patient access to urgent and emergency care.
As an Urgent Care Practitioner (UCP) you will provide advanced clinical assessment and signposting, through telephone consultation, to patients who have contacted the 999 /111 service.
You will also provide clinical advice, support and leadership to the 999 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) multi-disciplinary team, including Emergency Medical Advisors (Call Handlers), Paramedics, Nurses & Mental Health Practitioners.
Furthermore, you will provide clinical support across the Trust's wider Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) clinical team within NHS 111 - including Health Advisors (Call Handlers), Dental Nurses, Paediatric Nurses, Palliative Care Nurses, Pharmacists, Midwives and GPs.
In addition to supporting the on-site IUC clinical team, you will also be available to provide clinical support and advice to Healthcare Professionals within the community, including ambulance clinicians, community nursing teams, allied health professionals and care home social care staff.
You will need a proven track record of extensive clinical experience working across a variety of primary care and urgent & emergency settings, with well-honed patient consultation skills including excellent telephone communication skills, be self-motivated and able to manage your own workload.
About usYou will need to be a registered Paramedic or Nurse (Adult) with significant experience of clinical practice and qualifications and evidence relevant to specialist practice in the field of primary care and urgent & emergency care.
You will have operated in an autonomous capacity within a primary and urgent care setting, including having responsibility for the assessment and treatment of on the day patients within primary care, such as working within a Duty Team, working within an Urgent Treatment Centre with a wide range of injury but more commonly illness exposure or an Emergency Department in which your scope of practice involves autonomous care with discharge rights for a wide range of urgent care presentations.
You will have sound assessment and decision-making skills, the ability to plan and prioritise clinical workloads and ability to negotiate appropriate treatment and referral strategies.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure are also prerequisites for this role.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to 'support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities'. We are rated 'Good' for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year.
Urgent Care Practitioner (Experienced Paramedic Practitioner / Experienced Nurse Practitioner)
- Full time / Part time / bank positions available.
- Vacancies available in Gillingham, Kent or Crawley, West Sussex
- Telephone Clinical Assessment opportunity providing senior clinical advice to patients across 999 & 111 services
Are you an experienced and clinically driven Paramedic or Nurse Practitioner looking for a new challenge to utilise your existing extensive clinical experience in assessing and consulting patients remotely who contact 999 or 111?
An opportunity has arisen for Experienced Paramedic or Nurse Practitioners to join our Integrated Care (999 & 111) clinical team, based across the South East region. This is an exciting time to join South East Coast Ambulance Service, as we continue integrating patient access to urgent and emergency care.
As an Urgent Care Practitioner (UCP) you will provide advanced clinical assessment and signposting, through telephone consultation, to patients who have contacted the 999 /111 service.
You will also provide clinical advice, support and leadership to the 999 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) multi-disciplinary team, including Emergency Medical Advisors (Call Handlers), Paramedics, Nurses & Mental Health Practitioners.
Furthermore, you will provide clinical support across the Trust's wider Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) clinical team within NHS 111 - including Health Advisors (Call Handlers), Dental Nurses, Paediatric Nurses, Palliative Care Nurses, Pharmacists, Midwives and GPs.
In addition to supporting the on-site IUC clinical team, you will also be available to provide clinical support and advice to Healthcare Professionals within the community, including ambulance clinicians, community nursing teams, allied health professionals and care home social care staff.
You will need a proven track record of extensive clinical experience working across a variety of primary care and urgent & emergency settings, with well-honed patient consultation skills including excellent telephone communication skills, be self-motivated and able to manage your own workload.
About us
You will need to be a registered Paramedic or Nurse (Adult) with significant experience of clinical practice and qualifications and evidence relevant to specialist practice in the field of primary care and urgent & emergency care.
You will have operated in an autonomous capacity within a primary and urgent care setting, including having responsibility for the assessment and treatment of on the day patients within primary care, such as working within a Duty Team, working within an Urgent Treatment Centre with a wide range of injury but more commonly illness exposure or an Emergency Department in which your scope of practice involves autonomous care with discharge rights for a wide range of urgent care presentations.
You will have sound assessment and decision-making skills, the ability to plan and prioritise clinical workloads and ability to negotiate appropriate treatment and referral strategies.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure are also prerequisites for this role.
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