Paramedic/ANP in Plymouth

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Primary Care Paramedic or Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our established and highly respected training practice on a maternity‑cover basis. Working closely with the duty GP and the wider multidisciplinary team, the postholder will play a key role in delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred acute and long‑term care within a busy inner‑city general practice. This role requires a confident autonomous practitioner who works safely within their scope of practice while contributing positively to a supportive and collaborative team environment.

Main duties of the job

• Managing an autonomous clinical caseload, delivering holistic assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care.
• Assessing and managing minor illness and injury, urgent presentations, and elements of chronic disease management.
• Undertaking patient consultations both in the surgery and in patients' homes where required.
• Supporting triage, prioritisation, and escalation of patients, including emergency situations.
• Working within practice protocols and national guidelines (e.g. NICE), escalating appropriately to GPs, secondary care, or community services.
• Contributing to QOF, Enhanced Services, audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintaining accurate and timely clinical records using electronic patient systems.
• Promoting health education, disease prevention, and healthy lifestyles.
• Participating in clinical governance, multidisciplinary meetings, training, and service development.

The role also includes clinical leadership responsibilities, supporting integration with community services, and contributing to efficient service delivery across the practice population.

About us

Wycliffe Surgery is a well‑established inner‑city GP practice serving approximately 12,000 patients in Plymouth, a vibrant coastal city known as the Ocean City, offering excellent schools and access to outstanding outdoor environments. The practice operates under a PMS contract, is CQC rated Good, and is a consistently high QOF achiever. We are a supportive, close-knit training practice with a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary working, clinical governance, and professional development. The practice is committed to providing high‑quality, patient‑centred care and offers excellent support structures. Our culture encourages collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement to ensure the best outcomes for both patients and staff.

Job responsibilities

The post holder is an Emergency Care Practitioner/Paramedic, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of paramedics and clinicians in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a clinical lead who will develop, manage, and mentor them. The post holder will work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical assessments, diagnostics, and treatment either in the practice or at a patient’s residence.

To provide diagnostics, including normal and abnormal findings to relate them to a possible diagnosis. To use broad clinical guidelines (such as NICE), providing assistance and feedback where appropriate. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to accurately triaging and prioritising patients, including in emergency situations demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical/drug history while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s).

The post holder will provide clinical leadership as a Paramedic, seek quality improvement, and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework to enhance services. The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and local service providers to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be required to identify any signposting, referrals, hospital admission or any other services identified within the care/healthcare pathway. To advise and provide support to members of the public/patients in leading healthy lifestyles, disease prevention and health promotion. To maintain, update and monitor accurate systematic patient records of patient interactions, clinical care provided including adverse events. To fulfil the requirements of an experienced practitioner acting within his/her professional boundaries and competencies. To work autonomously but within the Practices protocols and guidelines as directed by the lead GP clinician from the on‑the‑day team.

Person Specification

Experience

• Primary care experience.
• Ability to manage minor illnesses & injuries safely.
• Competence in history taking, examination & assessment.
• Basic life support & emergency care.
• Ability to provide patient education & advice.
• Competence in electronic patient records (SystmOne, EMIS).
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT).
• Advanced Clinical Training.
• Previous work in GP surgeries, urgent care centres or community team.
• Experience in minor illness/injury clinics, chronic disease management or home visits.
• ECG interpretation, phlebotomy, wound care or vaccinations.
• Additional courses such as Advanced Life Support, PHTLS/ITLS, safeguarding, Mental Health First Aid.

Qualifications

• Registered with the HCPC with an approved paramedic science degree or diploma.
• Postgraduate level (level 7) typically a postgraduate diploma or MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP).

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.