Location
Bicknacre
Department
Greenwood Surgery
Advertising Salary
£41,000 - £45,000pa DOE
Function
Allied Health Professionals
Careers Site Advertising End Date
17 Jan 2025
Vacancy
8667
About the Role

The Dengie and South Woodham Ferrers Primary Care Network is looking to welcome an experienced emergency care practitioner into our busy PCN. The role is offered on a full time basis for 37.5 hours per week. The post-holder will cover a designated zone and would not be expected to cover the whole area. 

The main responsibilities of the role include:

  • Urgently respond to referrals and provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first point of contact by attending to patients, according to patients’ needs either in the practice or patient homes.
  • Support and continue the development of an on-the-day emergency patient service in the practice.
  • Accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in emergency situations and telephone triage, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical and drug history.
  • Evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking, and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.
  • Review the effectiveness of the treatment provided, making changes where necessary to improve patient outcomes.
  • Maintain accurate clinical records in an efficient manner.
The role will offer you the opportunity to build on your experience of working effectively within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team, as you will work alongside fellow professionals within the practice in support of one another.
About the Candidate
If you are an experienced emergency care practitioner (ECP) / paramedic wanting a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.  You will have the following skills and experience: 
  • Be a registered paramedic, with current HCPC registration and have post-registration experience, ideally with some being in primary care.
  • Have completed ENP/ ECP Minor Injuries and Minor Illness course Level 6 and be a ALS/APLS provider.
  • Effectively assess, plan, treat and refer patients.
  • Evaluate patient care confidently.
  • Experience of working to protocols and guidelines.
  • Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
  • The ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively.
  • Understanding of the need to work within the parameters of one's own training and capability, according to the Health and Care Professions Council.
  • Experience of autonomous practice working and multi-professional team working.
  • Demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children.
  • Must have full UK driving licence.
About Us
The Dengie and South Woodham Ferrers Primary Care Network is a collaboration of seven GP practice, serving approximately 45,000 patients from the Dengie, Bicknacre, Burnham-on-Crouch and South Woodham Ferrers area. We are a friendly, forward thinking, inclusive and dynamic PCN and our employees are our biggest asset.

 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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