Specialist Practitioner – Urgent Care (Nurse/Paramedic)
Department: Integrated Urgent Clinical Assessment Service (IUC CAS) within emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
Are you an Advanced/Enhanced Practitioner with the skills to undertake remote assessment?
Are you looking for a less physically demanding role?
Do you want to make a difference to improve patient care on a region-wide basis?
Do you want to work within a supportive team?
We have the role for you; come and join our Clinical Assessment Service.
As Specialist Practitioner – Urgent Care you will be joining our highly skilled multi-disciplinary team, responsible for undertaking remote clinical assessments for our patients accessing our fully integrated 111/999 service.
You will be responsible for assessing patients, planning care, and referring onwards via either a telephone or video-consultation process.
This is a unique role that requires a unique set of skills and experience.
Experience of working in an urgent care and or an emergency care setting, along with some experience of telephone triage and history taking, would be advantageous.
We can offer substantive full time/ part time.
The team comprises Drs, Pharmacists, and Advanced/Specialist Practitioners, with a wider team of Senior Clinical Advisors, Health Advisors and more; all supporting each other to ensure the best quality of care for the region’s patients and service users.
Operating 24 hrs. a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with flexible shift patterns. we offer working from one of our three sites at Newburn Riverside, Newcastle, Russell House, Hebburn or Winter House, Wynyard, Co Durham.
This is an exciting opportunity with the real chance to make a difference to the patients of the North East directing how they can access urgent care to get the right treatment in the right place at the right time.
Please join us and be part of the journey.
If you have any questions regarding the role, please do not hesitate to contact:
[email protected]
We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.
Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!
Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.
We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.
We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.
Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of "safe, effective and responsive care for all".
We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.
From 01/04/25 If your role needs a DBS you'll be subject to salary deduction totaling £49.50, spread over first and second pay.
Please refer to the job description attached to t his advert, where you will find full details of the role and its responsibilities.
