Advanced Practitoner

Our vision - Outstanding care, exceptional people, every hour of every day #WeAreEEAST.

A career as an Advanced Practitioner with EEAST offers many benefits, including:

- Rotation through locations across the East of England
- A staff-set rota, including flexible working
- Working with multidisciplinary teams
- A comprehensive training and development plan, including annual appraisal
- Clinical leadership opportunities
- Pre-hospital prescribing, where possible

To enable EEAST to meet the future needs of our patients, we are investing significantly in our urgent & emergency care services, developing a post registration career pathway for advanced practice.

This will create exciting opportunities for current Advanced Paramedics and career development for our clinical workforce.

Through this programmewe are now seekinga number ofindividualswith the drive, leadership skills and clinical excellence to take on the new, exciting and challenging role of Advanced Practitioner in Urgent or Critical Care.

In addition, Advanced Practitioners will provide clinical supervision and mentorship to our team of clinicians and contribute to the wider operational clinical team, through professional activities related to the four pillars of advanced practice, as well as providing excellent clinical care, on a number of new operational resources.

EEAST employs over 5,000 staff with a further 1,000+ volunteers who between them cover 7,500 square miles and care for a population of more than 6 million.

Our three control rooms in Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Essex handle more than 1 million 999 calls every year, over 2,500 calls a day.

We manage a fleet of over 1,000 vehicles including double staffed ambulances, rapid response cars, operational commander response vehicles, patient transport and support service vehicles.

The East of England works alongside 17 Acute Trusts with Accident & Emergency services and a Major Trauma Centre in Cambridge. Access is available to neighbouring MTCs such as those in London.

Our core values
- Care - We value warmth, empathy and compassion in all our relationships
- Teamwork - Together as one, we work with pride and commitment to achieve our vision
- Quality - We strive to consistently achieve high standards through continuous improvement
- Respect - We value individuals, including our patients, our staff and our partners in every interaction
- Honesty - We value a culture that has trust, integrity and transparency at the centre of everything we do.

**Our 4 goals are**:

- Be an exceptional place to work, volunteer and learn
- Provide outstanding quality of care and performance
- Be excellent collaborators and innovators as system partners
- Be an environmentally and financially sustainable organisation.

Advanced Practitioners in Urgent Care

Advanced Practitioners in Urgent Care will provide a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making. Advanced practice encompasses the four pillars of advanced practice: clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area-specific clinical competence.

The role of Advanced Practitioners in Urgent Care will be wide-ranging and varied including:

- Independent prescribing
- Regular development with clinical supervision, peer review and case-based discussion
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Clinical leadership supporting other healthcare professionals with complex patient groups
- Telephone triage and videoconferencing
- Opportunities to climb a clinical-career roadmap

Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care

Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care have excellent clinical leadership qualities and a high level of clinical autonomy, allowing them to support the wider ambulance workforce with the most critically ill and injured patients.

**The role of Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care includes**:

- Autonomous solo practice with a wide range of advanced skills and procedures
- Operating from ground and HEMS based platforms
- Opportunity for development and supervision while working as part of an enhanced care team
- Providing remote emergency clinical advice for other clinicians
- Coordinating critical care resources thereby getting the right clinician to the right patient at the right time