As an Emergency Care Practitioner on the Wards in Livingstone Community Hospital you’ll join a team of support workers/HCAs, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and nurses who are focused on exceeding the needs of patients within our North Kent community.
This role covers both Dartford and Gravesend, you may need to work in both Livingstone Community Hospital and Gravesham Community Hospital.
You will support the delivery of care to a range of complex patients which will include: life limiting conditions like diabetes, in dwelling long term catheter, urgent wound care etc.
This is a weekday service, working Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm. No weekends or bank holidays required.
Package DescriptionAs an Emergency Care Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at Livingstone Community Hospital in Dartford, North Kent.
You will feel valued as an Emergency Care Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£50,952 - £57,349 Band 8a salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
5% high cost area allowance
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Main ResponsibilitiesAs the Emergency Care Practitioner you will be working closely with a multidisciplinary team where you will use your experience to practice autonomously and flexibly. Practitioners should have significant experience in primary care or A&E/Minor Injuries Unit. Working within the nursing team, you will work with the service manager, and clinical lead to deliver robust clinical care.
The Ideal CandidateYou will have an Emergency Care Practitioner qualification, be a registered Paramedic and hold a prescribing qualification.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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