Job summary
Due to expansion of our clinical teams, we are now looking for an experienced nurse, paramedic or other health care practitioner to act as a senior clinical professional within the Mereside Duty Team. Acting within your professional boundaries, you will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients presenting on the day with undifferentiated presentations and urgent care needs, and supporting patients with long-term conditions.
By its nature this is a varied role, whose priorities of the day can vary tremendously. You should be enthusiastic, adaptable, and solutions-minded, with a strong natural aptitude for technology.
You will be passionate about ensuring patients feel heard and cared for, achieving great health outcomes for them, whilst also being adept at triaging and managing patient expectations in order to ensure that we provide consistent quality of care for all.
Primary healthcare is broad, complex, and ever-changing, so there are endless opportunities to learn. This isa great role for you if you love learning new things, both clinically and in terms of tools and technologies with which to deliver care more effectively.
Main duties of the job
- Clinical Practice and Quality
- Clinical Assessment and Patient Care
- Learning, Development, and Education
- Learnership and Teamwork
About us
Mereside Medical is a flourishing group of three East Cambridgeshire practices in Ely, Haddenham and Soham, together serving c.45,000 patients. As a group, we've grown rapidly and now employ more than 170 people across the three practices. We are people-centered in our approach to work and believe that every contact that a patient has with our staff is as valuable as the next in the patient journey. We believe in clinical excellence, and that general practice is the cornerstone of well-being in our community. We are innovative and forward-looking, and we embrace technology to enable more effective, efficient, and connected ways of working to deliver ever better outcomes for our patients.
Our goal is to deliver on the ambitions laid out in the NHS 10 year Health Plan for England in a way that is locally relevant, valued by patients, and satisfying for our staff. In addition to our core general practice work we run a large clinical research trials unit and we work closely with the ICB to develop innovative ways to improve local service provision. We are the lead practice for one of the two local PCNs and are represented in both.
We are proud to be the host organisation for the NIHR Greater Cambridge & Suffolk Commercial Research Delivery Centre (Primary Care), one of only 14 in England. This prestigious designation recognises our commitment to accelerating commercial clinical research delivery for health and economic benefit across our region.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice and Quality
- Practice in compliance with your respective code of professional conduct and scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for your decisions, actions, and omissions at this level of practice
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of your level of responsibility and autonomy, and the limits of your own competence and scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information
- Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change
- Actively contribute to implementing the quality governance systems and processes across the organisation, demonstrating receptiveness to challenge and learn, and preparedness to constructively challenge others, in doing so. This includes but is not limited to healthcare records, learning points, and significant events
- Adopt a solutions and improvement mindset to proactively assess the effectiveness of your care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
Clinical Assessment and Patient Care
- Participate in and undertake triage of urgent care requests to ensure the smooth progress of patients through the system on a daily basis.
- Work in partnership with patients, families and carers (including care homes), using a range of assessment methods, your expertise, and your clinical reasoning to adopt an evidence-based approach compliant with NICE guidelines to:
- Assess, examine, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate holistic treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of emergency care
- Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate)
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan
- Demonstrate effective communication skills to optimise patient satisfaction while managing their expectations and supporting them to make decisions, plan care, or make positive change, including:
- To work with patients to ensure that individual medication regimes meet their needs and are aligned with relevant guidelines and regulations for prescribed treatments.
- To ensure appropriate use of prescribed and over-the-counter medication, and understanding of medication regimens, side-effects and interactions
- When dealing with sensitive matters that may also have legal or ethical considerations, for example, safeguarding, substance abuse, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial and ethnic diversity, mental illness, disabilities, etc
- To support patients to adopt health promotion strategies, and apply principles of self-care, including referring or sign-posting to other services that may support their wider well-being, e.g. Social Prescribers, Health & Well-being coaches, etc.
- Work collaboratively with your colleagues within Mereside practices and across the local health economy to manage risks and issues, and integrate effectively with health and social care providers, ensuring consistency of care across settings and practices.
Learning, Development, and Education
- Critically assess, and take responsibility for, your own learning and professional development plan that reflects the breadth of the needs of advanced clinical practice in primary care
- Proactively share learning, information, and good practice insights across the practice and wider organisation to facilitate individual and team learning
- Advocate for, and positively contribute to, a cohesive culture of organisational learning and collaboration both within and between teams, to ensure the best patient experience throughout their entire journey.
Leadership and Teamwork
- Contribute positively toa sense of cohesion, and foster a culture of wider collaboration, across the organisation, engaging effectively with collaboration tools such as MS Teams to improve communication and information sharing across sites and teams, including remote workers
- Work as an effective, responsible, and supportive member of the Duty Team, collaborating well with diverse colleagues and constantly seeking to improve ways of working both within the team and throughout the patient journey to ensure efficient and effective delivery of care
- Offer mentorship and support to junior colleagues as per the Mereside AP framework.
- Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team to ensure that cases are appropriately triaged, handled by the most clinically appropriate member of the team, and completed in a timely manner.
You should have or be:
- Qualified Paramedic, Nurse, or Health Care Practitioner with current registration of relevant professional body
- Minimum of5 years of post-registration experience
- 3 years' experience working autonomously in primary care or community settings
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility is required and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within their skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed. If you are interested in this role please send a CV and covering letter to:cpicb.mereside-recruitment@nhs.net
Closing date: 06 March 2026 Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Please note that if you do not receive a response within 2 weeks of the closing date then please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice and Quality
- Practice in compliance with your respective code of professional conduct and scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for your decisions, actions, and omissions at this level of practice
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of your level of responsibility and autonomy, and the limits of your own competence and scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information
- Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change
- Actively contribute to implementing the quality governance systems and processes across the organisation, demonstrating receptiveness to challenge and learn, and preparedness to constructively challenge others, in doing so. This includes but is not limited to healthcare records, learning points, and significant events
- Adopt a solutions and improvement mindset to proactively assess the effectiveness of your care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
Clinical Assessment and Patient Care
- Participate in and undertake triage of urgent care requests to ensure the smooth progress of patients through the system on a daily basis.
- Work in partnership with patients, families and carers (including care homes), using a range of assessment methods, your expertise, and your clinical reasoning to adopt an evidence-based approach compliant with NICE guidelines to:
- Assess, examine, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate holistic treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of emergency care
- Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate)
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan
- Demonstrate effective communication skills to optimise patient satisfaction while managing their expectations and supporting them to make decisions, plan care, or make positive change, including:
- To work with patients to ensure that individual medication regimes meet their needs and are aligned with relevant guidelines and regulations for prescribed treatments.
- To ensure appropriate use of prescribed and over-the-counter medication, and understanding of medication regimens, side-effects and interactions
- When dealing with sensitive matters that may also have legal or ethical considerations, for example, safeguarding, substance abuse, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial and ethnic diversity, mental illness, disabilities, etc
- To support patients to adopt health promotion strategies, and apply principles of self-care, including referring or sign-posting to other services that may support their wider well-being, e.g. Social Prescribers, Health & Well-being coaches, etc.
- Work collaboratively with your colleagues within Mereside practices and across the local health economy to manage risks and issues, and integrate effectively with health and social care providers, ensuring consistency of care across settings and practices.
Learning, Development, and Education
- Critically assess, and take responsibility for, your own learning and professional development plan that reflects the breadth of the needs of advanced clinical practice in primary care
- Proactively share learning, information, and good practice insights across the practice and wider organisation to facilitate individual and team learning
- Advocate for, and positively contribute to, a cohesive culture of organisational learning and collaboration both within and between teams, to ensure the best patient experience throughout their entire journey.
Leadership and Teamwork
- Contribute positively toa sense of cohesion, and foster a culture of wider collaboration, across the organisation, engaging effectively with collaboration tools such as MS Teams to improve communication and information sharing across sites and teams, including remote workers
- Work as an effective, responsible, and supportive member of the Duty Team, collaborating well with diverse colleagues and constantly seeking to improve ways of working both within the team and throughout the patient journey to ensure efficient and effective delivery of care
- Offer mentorship and support to junior colleagues as per the Mereside AP framework.
- Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team to ensure that cases are appropriately triaged, handled by the most clinically appropriate member of the team, and completed in a timely manner.
You should have or be:
- Qualified Paramedic, Nurse, or Health Care Practitioner with current registration of relevant professional body
- Minimum of5 years of post-registration experience
- 3 years' experience working autonomously in primary care or community settings
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility is required and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within their skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed. If you are interested in this role please send a CV and covering letter to:cpicb.mereside-recruitment@nhs.net
Closing date: 06 March 2026 Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Please note that if you do not receive a response within 2 weeks of the closing date then please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Paramedic, Nurse, or Health Care Practitioner with current registration of relevant professional body
- Minimum of 5 years of post-registration experience
- 3 years' experience working autonomously in primary care or community settings
Experience
Essential
- You may be a qualified Nurse, Paramedic or other health care practitioner with current registration of relevant professional body with a minimum of 5 years post registration experience. You should also ideally have 3 years' experience working autonomously in primary care or community settings.
- In addition, you will have completed at least the Advanced Clinical Assessment and Non-Medical Prescribing modules at Masters Level, or equivalent qualifications.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Paramedic, Nurse, or Health Care Practitioner with current registration of relevant professional body
- Minimum of 5 years of post-registration experience
- 3 years' experience working autonomously in primary care or community settings
Experience
Essential
- You may be a qualified Nurse, Paramedic or other health care practitioner with current registration of relevant professional body with a minimum of 5 years post registration experience. You should also ideally have 3 years' experience working autonomously in primary care or community settings.
- In addition, you will have completed at least the Advanced Clinical Assessment and Non-Medical Prescribing modules at Masters Level, or equivalent qualifications.
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).
