Main area: 999, 111, Urgent Care Practitioner, Registered Nurse, Paramedic, RGN, HCPC Grade Band 7
* Contract: Permanent
* Hours: Full time, Part time, Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Full, part time available)
Job ref: 278-111UCP-0125-NW
Employer: South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Integrated Urgent Care (999 & 111)
Town: Crawley/Gillingham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 27/02/2025
Band 7
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.
Job overview
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.
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.
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. Unsocial hours is payable in addition to the salary quoted, dependent upon working pattern.
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 and evidence relevant to ‘specialist practice’ in the field of primary care and urgent & emergency care.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure are also prerequisites for this role.
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 (Must include duty team/on day team working) Urgent (UTC/ED/SDEC) 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. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.
The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia.
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 and we will be happy to provide this.
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