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Specialist Practitioner (Urgent Care CAS) Paramedic
The closing date is 13 May 2026
Department: Integrated Urgent Clinical Assessment Service (IUC CAS) within emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
Salary: Band 7 £40,057-£45,839 per annum + unsocial enhancements
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 offer a substantive full time or part time role within our Clinical Assessment Service.
Main duties of the job
As Specialist Practitioner - Urgent Care you will be joining our highly skilled multi‑disciplinary team, responsible for undertaking remote clinical assessments for patients accessing our fully integrated 111/999 service. You will be responsible for assessing patients, planning care, and referring onwards via telephone or video‑consultation. Experience of working in an urgent care or emergency care setting, along with telephone triage and history taking, would be advantageous.
The team comprises doctors, pharmacists, and Advanced/Specialist Practitioners, with Senior Clinical Advisors, Health Advisors, and others supporting one another to ensure the best quality of care for the region's patients and service users. Operating 24 hours 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.
About us
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 3,230 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 deals 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.
Person Specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
* HCPC Registered Paramedic or NMC registered Nurse
* Holds a BSc in an appropriate subject (or equivalent level 6 education)
* PG Diploma (level 7) Advanced Clinical Practice or close equivalent
* Non-medical Prescribing qualification and registration
* Holds the Diploma in Primary and Urgent Care College of Paramedics (Dip PUC) or Diploma in Urgent Medical Care faculty of pre-hospital care, Royal College of Surgeon's Edinburgh (DipUMC)
* Teaching and/or mentoring qualification
KEY SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND APTITUDE
* Ability to apply advanced clinical assessment, clinical reasoning
* Ability to deliver advanced clinical skills and interventions
* Experience of undertaking research and audit activities
EXPERIENCE
* Significant autonomous (post preceptorship/NQP) experience in the urgent or pre‑hospital care setting
* Demonstrable portfolio of significant relevant and recent CPD
* Experience of working in other clinical settings and as a solo responder
* Experience of working in EOC/call centre/remote clinical assessment
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.
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