Paramedic/ANP

Riverside Health Centre has an exciting opportunity for a clinical practitioner to join our practice in a new role to help us continue to offer the best possible service to our increasing patient population. This position is offered on a part-time basis for 22 hours a week. This role will mainly be based in the surgery, but some remote working may be required.

This is a mixed role working closely with the GPs and wider team and involves clinical triage, face to face and telephone consultations, home visits and proactive care for our local care home residents. 

Clinically they will be responsible for receiving and managing patients with undifferentiated illness to assess their healthcare needs and then diagnose and provide treatment in line with local and national guidelines to ensure a high-quality service to our population.

Responsibilities will include:

• Diagnosing and treating patients presenting to primary care with acute medical conditions, minor illness and mental health problems. This may be in the surgery, remote telephone/online consulting or as a home visit.
• Working with the GPs to provide excellent proactive care for care home residents including regular “ward round” reviews.
• Communicating with patients/parents/carers including breaking bad news and providing appropriate ongoing support to meet identified needs.
• Supporting the duty doctor with clinical triage.
• Ensuring clinical practice is safe and effective and working within boundaries of competence.
• Initiating and arranging appropriate investigations and referrals to other members of the primary and secondary health care teams as clinically indicated.
• Participating in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team including clinical audit.
• Ensuring the clinical record is completed and maintained with accurate and contemporaneous details recorded.
• Participating in the education and training of students of all disciplines and the induction of all members of the practice staff where appropriate.
  

The ideal candidate would have the following;

• Fully registered with the appropriate clinical body and have experience of working within primary care.
• Prescribing qualification and be able to demonstrate continued professional development and professionalism.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively in a team.
• Ability to demonstrate innovation and awareness of future opportunities and challenges would be desirable to help meet the current and future challenges of primary care, and to help us promote a rewarding environment for staff as well as ensuring excellent patient care. 

The Colte Partnership is very much ‘At the heart of primary care’, being the largest GP partnership in north east Essex; comprised of  8 local  GP practices across Colchester and Tendring. We care for approx. 80,000 patients. Our head office is in Feering.

We pride ourselves on working to be at the forefront of primary care in our region, and have many exciting ventures on the horizon. We value staff happiness and aim to proactively address work-life balance concerns in modern healthcare provision.

Each of our branches has its own character and family friendly ethos, which is why our patients love coming to us (and tell us so in our regular patient surveys). However, being a large partnership means we can offer so much more than a local branch can by itself – with specialist clinics, social prescribing and innovative support such as regular dementia cafes, armed forces support and even child first aid classes for parents.

We strive to look after our employees as well, with generous annual leave, flexible and family friendly working, and support during difficult times such as free counselling.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check - basic

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for a basic Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any current or unspent criminal convictions.