Job summary
Are you a Registered Nurse, Paramedic, or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with a passion for providing patient-centred care? We are seeking dedicated professionals to join our dynamic team in delivering autonomous care in the clinical assessment, examination, and management of minor illness presentations. You will utilise telephone consultations and face-to-face contact to treat patients, developing advanced clinical skills in minor illness working alongside GPs and a multi-professional workforce. This role requires excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills, highly developed communication abilities, and a commitment to working flexibly within a dynamic environment. You will ensure the standardisation of practice, delivering safe and effective care to all within the service.
As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide hands-on and face-to-face consultations to assess, diagnose, signpost, and treat patients in a timely fashion. Our team prides itself on excellent teamwork and support of one another while treating a diverse range of conditions. If you are committed to providing high-quality patient care and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join our team and make a difference in the lives of our patients.
Main duties of the job
You are responsible for the delivery of
autonomous care in the clinical assessment, examination, and management of
minor injury and illness presentations, continually advancing the boundaries of
practice of the service.
You will be a RN, Paramedic, or
AHP with the skills to autonomously assess and treat patients within our
Clinical Urgent Care bases using telephone consultations and face-to-face
contact. You will have excellent clinical assessment and
decision-making skills, along with a passion for providing patient-centred care
and highly developed communication skills.
You will be joining an MDT who pride
themselves on their excellent team working and support of one another whilst
treating a diverse range of conditions. This will give you the opportunity to
develop advanced clinical skills in both minor injury and illness, with the mentorship
of our GPs and a multi-professional workforce.
Be committed to working flexibly within a
dynamic environment, responding positively to new demands and changes. Ensure
the standardisation of practice, delivering safe and effective care to all
within the service.
These patients may have complex needs and
potentially numerous co-morbidities, including frailty. This post is a clinical
role where hands-on and face-to-face consultations will be undertaken to
clinically assess, diagnose, signpost, and treat in a timely fashion, working
in a multi-professional team.
About us
Community Based Care Health Federation Ltd are based on Team
Valley serving Primary Care in Gateshead and the wider Northeast footprint. As
a not-for-profit provider we reinvest any surplus to improve services for our
patients in Gateshead and support our GP's and Primary Care Networks to deliver
the highest quality services.
As a provider of high quality clinical and non-clinical
services we are a respected and proud company that puts patients at the heart
of what we do, whilst valuing and supporting our staff to grow and develop. We
have company values developed by our staff that underpin our work and the way
we work together, and we have a staff culture club to ensure the voice of our
staff is heard at Board level and throughout the senior management team.
Many of our roles are available with the NHS pension scheme
and transferable service is recognised from previous NHS employment as
appropriate. We offer competitive rates of pay and out of hours enhancements
and have a fully integrated reward and recognition system. We have just been
awarded our Silver "Better Health at Work Award" where we have
demonstrated our commitment to supporting our workforce to keep well at work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for more information
on main duties, qualifications and skills required for this role, within CBC
Health Federation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for more information
on main duties, qualifications and skills required for this role, within CBC
Health Federation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level Registered Nurse (NMC) or paramedic practitioner (HCPC)
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Educated to Degree level
- Recognised accredited qualification & competency in autonomous practice, Nurse practitioner
- Accredited qualification in advanced clinical assessment and examination and equivalent minor injury/illness degree/masters level programmes
Desirable
- A masters or master level post registration qualification or equivalent experience
- Leadership qualification
- Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Broad senior level clinical experience relevant to the post e.g. minor injury, walk in centre or emergency department
- Accredited history taking course
- ECDL or evidence of IT literacy
- Autonomous practitioner
- Significant experience of working in a Band 6/7 role within emergency/urgent care settings, working as senior practitioner
- Experience of communicating delicate, complex and sensitive information at senior level
- Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal and communication skills to all stakeholders
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and professional development
- A thorough understanding of the principles of clinical governance and NHS policy issues
- Motivational and can do attitude
- Ability to cope with and diffuse difficult and stressful situations
- Evidence of an ability to prioritise workload for themselves and their team
- Experience of managing/leading staff.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter/agency working.
- Experience of liaising with statutory and non-statutory services and agencies.
- Experience of evaluating the training needs of staff and implementing appropriate training programmes.
- Experience of leading service developments and working in a busy complex environment
- Advanced level specialist skills, undertaking comprehensive assessment, making, and receiving referrals, requesting, and acting upon diagnostic tests, independent prescribing.
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning including the ability to reflect upon own performance and partake and lead in clinical supervision
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
Desirable
- 12 months + non-medical prescribing experience
- Knowledge of long-term condition management
- Specialist knowledge in respiratory, cardiac, diabetic, long term conditions and acute on the day presentations
- Experience of leading an MDT in the NHS
- Proven knowledge of the principles of risk management, the integrated governance framework and compliance with risk and quality safety standards
- Experience in change management
- Experience in leading audits and/or research
- Enhanced IT skills databases, excel, word, outlook and internet
- Excellent presentation skills with practical experience of paeds/under 16s
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level Registered Nurse (NMC) or paramedic practitioner (HCPC)
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Educated to Degree level
- Recognised accredited qualification & competency in autonomous practice, Nurse practitioner
- Accredited qualification in advanced clinical assessment and examination and equivalent minor injury/illness degree/masters level programmes
Desirable
- A masters or master level post registration qualification or equivalent experience
- Leadership qualification
- Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Broad senior level clinical experience relevant to the post e.g. minor injury, walk in centre or emergency department
- Accredited history taking course
- ECDL or evidence of IT literacy
- Autonomous practitioner
- Significant experience of working in a Band 6/7 role within emergency/urgent care settings, working as senior practitioner
- Experience of communicating delicate, complex and sensitive information at senior level
- Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal and communication skills to all stakeholders
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and professional development
- A thorough understanding of the principles of clinical governance and NHS policy issues
- Motivational and can do attitude
- Ability to cope with and diffuse difficult and stressful situations
- Evidence of an ability to prioritise workload for themselves and their team
- Experience of managing/leading staff.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter/agency working.
- Experience of liaising with statutory and non-statutory services and agencies.
- Experience of evaluating the training needs of staff and implementing appropriate training programmes.
- Experience of leading service developments and working in a busy complex environment
- Advanced level specialist skills, undertaking comprehensive assessment, making, and receiving referrals, requesting, and acting upon diagnostic tests, independent prescribing.
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning including the ability to reflect upon own performance and partake and lead in clinical supervision
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
Desirable
- 12 months + non-medical prescribing experience
- Knowledge of long-term condition management
- Specialist knowledge in respiratory, cardiac, diabetic, long term conditions and acute on the day presentations
- Experience of leading an MDT in the NHS
- Proven knowledge of the principles of risk management, the integrated governance framework and compliance with risk and quality safety standards
- Experience in change management
- Experience in leading audits and/or research
- Enhanced IT skills databases, excel, word, outlook and internet
- Excellent presentation skills with practical experience of paeds/under 16s
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
