Location
Suffolk
Department
Deben Health Group (DHG) South PCN
Advertising Salary
Up to Band 7 DOE
Function
Allied Health Professionals
Careers Site Advertising End Date
31 Oct 2024
About the Role
Deben Health Group has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking & enthusiastic PCN prescribing nurse practitioner/ paramedic, on a full or part time basis. 
 
This new role would join an established PCN team of patient coordinators, mental health, pharmacy hub & first contact physiotherapists. You will be required to travel across the sites within the Deben Health Group PCN which is made up of 4 practices.
 
The main purpose of the role:
  • Assess & triage patients, including same day triage.
  • Advise patients on general health and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCN’s social prescribing service, and where appropriate, other community or voluntary services.
  • Perform and interpret ECGs.
  • Perform investigatory procedures, specialist health checks and QOF investigations as required within their scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance.
  • Undertake the collection of pathological specimens. 
  • Support the delivery of ‘anticipatory care plans’ & lead certain community services.
  • Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the network & clinical audits.
  • Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required.
  • Support the PCN care-home population by providing medical services (ward rounds, urgent care visits where necessary).
Please see full job description attached:
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: 
 
Essential:
  • Have current HCPC registration and have post-registration experience, ideally with some being in primary care.
  • Clinical skills qualifications or evidence of equivalent experience.
  • Minimum of 2 years (or equivalent) post qualification experience as a newly qualified paramedic.
  • 3 years experience or equivalent as a band 6 or equivalent paramedic. 
  • Advanced clinical practice skills.
  • Be able to effectively assess, plan, treat and refer patients.
  • Be able to evaluate patient care confidently.
  • Experience in the management of long term conditions. 
  • To exhibit excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
  • Have the ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively.
Desirable:
  • Experience in management of patients with complex needs.
  • Experience of preventative medicine and chronic disease management.
  • Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF)
  • Recent experience of working in UK general practice environment.
  • 2 years experience or equivalent of working as an emergency care practitioner in one of the following: General Practice, WIC/MIU, GP OOHs or A&E.
  • 5 years post registration experience or equivalent of which 2 years will have been spent in primary care, A&E unscheduled care or related field.

About Us
We believe we are stronger together! Deben Health Group started many years ago as a strategy meeting of managers and clinicians, striving to improve health services amongst our community. Today, this collaboration of four general practices are coming together to form a primary care network of providers. Enabling our team of doctors, nurses and associate professionals, to work together seeking continuous improvement by strengthening our relationship with other key, health and wellbeing providers available to our population.
 
Our mission: Through preventative and personalised care we are transforming the way healthcare is delivered. We aim to maintain this team based approach, using technology and innovation wherever possible. Enhancing effective ways of improving communication, self-management and health outcomes across our organisation. Responsive to the issues that are important to you, we remain committed to treating our workforce and all our patients with the highest quality of care and respect we believe you deserve.
 
Our benefits include:
 
  • NHS pension
  • Free onsite parking
  • Tea & coffee provided

 

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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