Job summary
We are looking for an Urgent Treatment Room Clinician to join our busy team.
With a focus on minor illness, this vacancy would be suitable for a Paramedic, Pharmacist or Nurse with relevant experience. The completion of a prescribing course would also be ideal.
We regularly review applications, and reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role.
Hours, Salary and Benefits
- £24 - £30 per hour, depending on role and experience
- An excellent NHS pension scheme
- A minimum 25 days annual leave (pro-ratad), plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days with length of service
- NHS Discounts with a massive number of retailers (with a Bluelight card)
- Wellbeing resources available free to all staff
Shift Pattern 37.5 hours per weekConversations around flexible working and compressed hours are encouraged.
- Monday: 8am 4pm
- Tuesday: 8am 4pm
- Wednesday: 12pm 8pm
- Thursday: 12pm 8pm
- Friday: 8am 4pm
Main duties of the job
Working out of our Shenley Church End site in our Acute Hub you will be providing on the day care to our patients.
The team is comprised of Minor Illness Nurses, Prescribing Pharmacists and Paramedics, and we are looking for someone similar to join the well supported team.
If you are part way through your prescribing or minor illness course we would still like to hear from you.
About us
Our ethos is to treat patients as we would expect our family members to be treated. We are proud of our caring and supportive team approach and it is important that the successful applicant fits well within our team.
We pride ourselves on being a modern, forward thinking general practice whilst retaining traditional values.
As Watling Street Practice, our three sites are within Stony Stratford, Great Holm and Shenley Church End. We are part of the Watling Street Primary Care Network and have a community team including nurses, social prescribers and social work assistant supporting our patient populations.
We strive to provide high quality, readily accessible medical and preventative health care within a well organised, efficient, up-to-date, friendly and caring environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties & Responsibilities (may include)
- Provide urgent, on the day care to our patients via the Acute Hub
- Participate in all treatment and preventative healthcare services in the practice as delegated and agreed by the supervising GP(s)
- Provide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines
- Consult and refer patients to physicians, medical specialists and other health professionals as indicated
- Interview patients, take medical histories, perform physical examinations, analyse, diagnose and explain medical problems during surgery consultations and home visits
- Recommend and explain appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment
- Request and interpret results of laboratory investigations when necessary
- Perform specialised diagnostic physical exams and treatment procedures
- Instruct and educate patients in preventative health care
- Conduct telephone consultations which may involve discussing the result and implications of laboratory investigations with patients as well as dealing appropriately with routine and emergency complaints
- Order laboratory tests as required and agreed under supervising doctor(s)
- Be involved with the triaging requests from patients that arrive by electronic communication
- Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes
- Participate fully in the clinicians duty rota including the provision of home visits when appropriate
- Formulate diagnoses and treatment plans, in consultation with or referring to supervising doctor(s) as appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties & Responsibilities (may include)
- Provide urgent, on the day care to our patients via the Acute Hub
- Participate in all treatment and preventative healthcare services in the practice as delegated and agreed by the supervising GP(s)
- Provide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines
- Consult and refer patients to physicians, medical specialists and other health professionals as indicated
- Interview patients, take medical histories, perform physical examinations, analyse, diagnose and explain medical problems during surgery consultations and home visits
- Recommend and explain appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment
- Request and interpret results of laboratory investigations when necessary
- Perform specialised diagnostic physical exams and treatment procedures
- Instruct and educate patients in preventative health care
- Conduct telephone consultations which may involve discussing the result and implications of laboratory investigations with patients as well as dealing appropriately with routine and emergency complaints
- Order laboratory tests as required and agreed under supervising doctor(s)
- Be involved with the triaging requests from patients that arrive by electronic communication
- Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes
- Participate fully in the clinicians duty rota including the provision of home visits when appropriate
- Formulate diagnoses and treatment plans, in consultation with or referring to supervising doctor(s) as appropriate
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- You will be a paramedic, pharmacist or nurse with experience in minor illness
Desirable
- Ideally you will have completed, or will be in the process of completing, a prescribing course
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- You will be a paramedic, pharmacist or nurse with experience in minor illness
Desirable
- Ideally you will have completed, or will be in the process of completing, a prescribing course
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
