Job summary
Are you a Registered Nurse, Paramedic, or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with a passion for patient-centred care? We are building a flexible bank of clinicians to work across Extended Access (in-hours) and Out of Hours (OOH) services. This is an exciting opportunity to choose shifts that suit your lifestyle while delivering high-quality care to our patients.
As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide autonomous clinical assessment, examination, and management of minor illness presentations, using both telephone and face-to-face consultations. Working alongside GPs and other professionals, developing advanced clinical skills and contributing to safe, effective, and standardised care.
What we offer:
- Flexible shifts across in-hours and OOH services
- Supportive MDT environment with mentorship opportunities
- Exposure to a diverse range of conditions, including minor illness and injury
Our team prides itself on excellent teamwork and mutual support while treating a wide range of conditions. If you are committed to providing high-quality patient care and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role with flexibility, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join our team and make a difference in the lives of our patients.
Main duties of the job
- You
will be a RN, Paramedic, or Allied Health Professional with
the skills to deliver autonomous care across both Extended Access (in-hours)
and Out of Hours (OOH) services. Your role will ensure patients receive timely,
safe, and effective treatment through a combination of telephone consultations
and face-to-face contact.
- You
will demonstrate excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills, a
passion for patient-centred care, and highly developed communication abilities.
- Assess,
diagnose, treat, and signpost patients appropriately, considering complex needs
and co-morbidities, including frailty.
- Provide
care for minor illness and injury presentations across both in-hours and OOH
settings.
- Work
collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), including GPs and other
healthcare professionals, to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- Respond
flexibly to service demands, adapting to different care settings and patient
needs across Extended Access and OOH environments.
- Maintain
high standards of clinical practice, ensuring safe, effective, and standardised
care for all patients.
- Contribute
to the development of advanced clinical skills in minor illness and injury,
supported by mentorship and training opportunities.
- Enjoy
the flexibility of choosing shifts that suit your lifestyle while working in a
dynamic environment treating a diverse range of conditions.
About us
Community Based Care Health Federation Ltd are based on Team
Valley serving Primary Care in Gateshead and the wider Northeast footprint. As
a not-for-profit provider we reinvest any surplus to improve services for our
patients in Gateshead and support our GP's and Primary Care Networks to deliver
the highest quality services.
As a provider of high quality clinical and non-clinical
services we are a respected and proud company that puts patients at the heart
of what we do, whilst valuing and supporting our staff to grow and develop. We
have company values developed by our staff that underpin our work and the way
we work together, and we have a staff culture club to ensure the voice of our
staff is heard at Board level and throughout the senior management team.
Many of our roles are available with the NHS pension scheme
and transferable service is recognised from previous NHS employment as
appropriate. We offer competitive rates of pay and out of hours enhancements
and have a fully integrated reward and recognition system. We have just been
awarded our Silver "Better Health at Work Award" where we have
demonstrated our commitment to supporting our workforce to keep well at work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for more information
on main duties, qualifications and skills required for this role, within CBC
Health Federation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for more information
on main duties, qualifications and skills required for this role, within CBC
Health Federation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level Registered Nurse (NMC) or paramedic practitioner (HCPC)
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Educated to Degree level
- Recognised accredited qualification & competency in autonomous practice, Nurse practitioner
- Accredited qualification in advanced clinical assessment and examination and equivalent minor injury/illness degree/masters level programmes
Desirable
- A masters or master level post registration qualification or equivalent experience
- Leadership qualification
- Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Broad senior level clinical experience relevant to the post e.g. minor injury, walk in centre or emergency department
- Accredited history taking course
- ECDL or evidence of IT literacy
- Autonomous practitioner
- Significant experience of working in a Band 6/7 role within emergency/urgent care settings, working as senior practitioner
- Experience of communicating delicate, complex and sensitive information at senior level
- Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal and communication skills to all stakeholders
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and professional development
- A thorough understanding of the principles of clinical governance and NHS policy issues
- Motivational and can do attitude
- Ability to cope with and diffuse difficult and stressful situations
- Evidence of an ability to prioritise workload for themselves and their team
- Experience of managing/leading staff.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter/agency working.
- Experience of liaising with statutory and non-statutory services and agencies.
- Experience of evaluating the training needs of staff and implementing appropriate training programmes.
- Experience of leading service developments and working in a busy complex environment
- Advanced level specialist skills, undertaking comprehensive assessment, making, and receiving referrals, requesting, and acting upon diagnostic tests, independent prescribing.
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning including the ability to reflect upon own performance and partake and lead in clinical supervision
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Excellent presentation skills with practical experience of paeds (over 12's)
Desirable
- 12 months + non-medical prescribing experience
- Knowledge of long-term condition management
- Specialist knowledge in respiratory, cardiac, diabetic, long term conditions and acute on the day presentations
- Experience of leading an MDT in the NHS
- Proven knowledge of the principles of risk management, the integrated governance framework and compliance with risk and quality safety standards
- Experience in change management
- Experience in leading audits and/or research
- Enhanced IT skills databases, excel, word, outlook and internet
- Excellent presentation skills with practical experience of paeds (under 5's)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level Registered Nurse (NMC) or paramedic practitioner (HCPC)
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Educated to Degree level
- Recognised accredited qualification & competency in autonomous practice, Nurse practitioner
- Accredited qualification in advanced clinical assessment and examination and equivalent minor injury/illness degree/masters level programmes
Desirable
- A masters or master level post registration qualification or equivalent experience
- Leadership qualification
- Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Broad senior level clinical experience relevant to the post e.g. minor injury, walk in centre or emergency department
- Accredited history taking course
- ECDL or evidence of IT literacy
- Autonomous practitioner
- Significant experience of working in a Band 6/7 role within emergency/urgent care settings, working as senior practitioner
- Experience of communicating delicate, complex and sensitive information at senior level
- Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal and communication skills to all stakeholders
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and professional development
- A thorough understanding of the principles of clinical governance and NHS policy issues
- Motivational and can do attitude
- Ability to cope with and diffuse difficult and stressful situations
- Evidence of an ability to prioritise workload for themselves and their team
- Experience of managing/leading staff.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter/agency working.
- Experience of liaising with statutory and non-statutory services and agencies.
- Experience of evaluating the training needs of staff and implementing appropriate training programmes.
- Experience of leading service developments and working in a busy complex environment
- Advanced level specialist skills, undertaking comprehensive assessment, making, and receiving referrals, requesting, and acting upon diagnostic tests, independent prescribing.
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning including the ability to reflect upon own performance and partake and lead in clinical supervision
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Excellent presentation skills with practical experience of paeds (over 12's)
Desirable
- 12 months + non-medical prescribing experience
- Knowledge of long-term condition management
- Specialist knowledge in respiratory, cardiac, diabetic, long term conditions and acute on the day presentations
- Experience of leading an MDT in the NHS
- Proven knowledge of the principles of risk management, the integrated governance framework and compliance with risk and quality safety standards
- Experience in change management
- Experience in leading audits and/or research
- Enhanced IT skills databases, excel, word, outlook and internet
- Excellent presentation skills with practical experience of paeds (under 5's)
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).
