Paramedic Urgent Care

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust are proud of our new clinical career pathway which offers progression routes to specialist and advanced practice in a variety of clinical disciplines.
- Advanced Patient Assessment
- Pathophysiology and Pharmacology
- Fundamentals of Advanced Practice
- Minor Illness/Injury

Learning is consolidated across a variety of clinical settings with placements and clinical rotations. This includes frontline within Yorkshire Ambulance Service, our Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), within primary care networks and in minor injury units.

Urgent care clinicians (SPUC, SNUC, PUC) provide 24/7 enhanced clinical support and supervision of staff across a range of incidents within the pre-hospital environment. Working with a greater autonomy, the post holder will provide enhanced clinical management and coordinate the care of patients with complex and challenging health care needs; responding to patients with acute, complex or urgent illness.

To perform effectively as a paramedic urgent care, the individual must have the knowledge and skills for safe and effective practice when working without direct supervision. They must recognise and work within the limits of their current level of competence, education and training, and should operate with a duty of candour, ensuring that they practice patient-centred care at all times.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.

We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.

We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.

Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.

**Benefits**:

- Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
- 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
- Sell annual leave scheme.
- Contributory Pension.
- NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
- Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes.
- Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
- Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
- Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.

Utilising the clinical skills and knowledge required of the role, the post holder is responsible for the competent assessment, diagnosis, care, treatment and referral and/or transport of patients and their carers/relatives in urgent and emergency situations.

In addition to providing an operational response, urgent care clinicians contribute to the clinical supervision, leadership, advice and support within the Emergency Operations Centre and the post holder will be expected to rotate into the EOC as part of their core operational role.

In addition to providing an operational response and rotation through EOC, urgent care clinicians will be expected to rotate through primary care as part of their core operational role.

The post holder will be clinically responsible for ensuring own safe and effective clinical performance and demonstrate excellence in clinical leadership through role modelling values and professional standards and mentorship in practice.

In order to carry out these duties, the post holder will work in a reliable, safe and professional manner, in accordance with the policies, procedures and standards of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.