Position Overview & Specifications
About the Role
Walnut Tree Health Centre in Milton Keynes has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and enthusiastic emergency care practitioner (ECP) / paramedic to join our busy practice, to support the clinical team in delivering outstanding patient care. We are happy to consider applicants on a full and part-time basis.
The main responsibilities of the role include:- To 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;
- To support, and continue the development of, an on-the-day emergency patient service in the practice;
- To accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in both 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;
- To evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking, and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral;
- To review the effectiveness of the treatment provided, making changes where necessary to improve patient outcomes;
- To maintain accurate clinical records in an efficient manner.
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 nurse or paramedic, with current HCPC or NMC 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;
- Be able to effectively assess, plan, treat and refer patients;
- Be able to evaluate patient care confidently;
- Have experience of working to protocols and guidelines;
- To exhibit excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills;
- Have 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 NMC Code of Conduct / Health and Care Professions Council;
- Experience of autonomous practice working and multi-professional team working;
- Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children.
About Us
Walnut Tree Health Centre is a very friendly, busy GP Surgery based in Walnut Tree, Milton Keynes and serves a population of 13,500 patients with a mixed demographic. We are a training practice. We have a great relationship with our PCN and are committed to developing the services we can offer our patients. We value work life balance.
We are currently a team of 3 GP Partners and 2 salaried GPs. In addition to PCN roles we have our own very experienced multi-disciplinary team comprising:
- 2 x prescribing nurse practitioners
- Practice nursing team including chronic disease management, health screening and treatment room services
- Prescribing pharmacist
- A management and admin team providing comprehensive care and support
- Variety of trainees including F2, ST1/2&3 and student nurse
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.