As an Advanced Nurse/Advanced Paramedic (Rural Support Team), you will be expected to provide expert clinical case management to children and young people, adults, carers, families and communities within a defined population in the most appropriate environment, whether in the community, on the telephone or in hospital/primary care setting.
The Advanced Nurse/Advanced Paramedic (Remote & Rural Support Team) post holder will work autonomously as first contact clinician to both patients requiring home visits and also attendees to the Urgent Care Centre/Hospital. He/she will work autonomously within their scope of competency providing high quality services.
This post is integral to ensuring safe, effective, high quality care is delivered as close to home as possible, by a sustainable and appropriately skilled workforce with a reduction in dependency on medical models of care provision.
Unscheduled care services may be the first point of contact for patients with minor or major injuries and deals with a range of problems from a painful finger to major motor vehicle crashes and patients with multiple traumas. Also cared for are medical patients with conditions varying from a rash to a heart attack. The Advanced Nurse/Advanced Paramedic (Remote & Rural Support Team) will request medical support when required always working within his/her own level of competence and within the NMC/HCPC Codes of Professional Conduct.
Informal enquiries to Kate Earnshaw, District Manager - OOH West or or Rodger Adcock, Clinical Lead RST - or
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Additional Information For Candidates
Effective from 1st April 2026, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reduced from 37 to 36 hours. Part-time hours will be adjusted on a pro-rata basis. There will be an increase in the hourly rate to ensure that pay remains unaffected.
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