Band 7
Main area: Urgent Care Practitioner, Registered Nurse, Paramedic, RGN, HCPC Grade Band 7
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Full, part time available) Job ref: 278-111UCP-0325-NW
Site: Integrated Urgent Care (999 & 111) Town: Crawley/Gillingham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/03/2025 23:59
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 aim to continually improve across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provides services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire, handling over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year.
Job Overview
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.
Main Duties of the Job
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.
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.
Working for Our Organisation
The role requires:
* Permanent full-time contracts
* 24-hour rotas that involve unsocial hours working due to the delivery of patients presenting through 999, with a focus on the out of hours period providing care for patients presenting through 111.
* Successfully passing a two-week training course which will be held at Crawley HQ.
Please note, this is a 7-day per week role and there is a requirement to work a variety of shifts.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
You will need to be a registered Paramedic or Nurse (Adult) with significant experience of clinical practice and qualifications 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.
You will have sound assessment and decision-making skills, the ability to plan and prioritise clinical workloads and excellent communication skills.
Person Specification
Experience
* Higher Education Award including: Specialist Practice Diploma in Primary and Urgent Care or equivalent.
* Evidence of a minimum of two years in an autonomous role in primary care.
* Experience of telephone triage or consultation.
* Knowledge of clinical governance, audit or safeguarding frameworks.
Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales.
The Trust is committed to being an inclusive employer and actively supports equality of opportunity for all our staff.
The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes.
Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact recruitment@secamb.nhs.uk stating the vacancy reference number.
Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview.
Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.
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