# Junior Nurse Practitioner/Paramedic Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-nurse-practitionerparamedic-practitioner/eac234ad-594e-48f0-964a-0571fa69a562 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-nurse-practitionerparamedic-practitioner/eac234ad-594e-48f0-964a-0571fa69a562.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Torquay - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Paramedic - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover secondment considered) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shift work to support opening hours including bank holidays and weekends across 2 sites) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-24T13:52:16.326Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Devon/Newton_Abbot/Torbay_South_Devon_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Urgent_Emergency_Care/Urgent_Emergency_Care-v8055085 - **Employer website:** https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunities has arisen for Band 6  Emergency Nurse  / Paramedic / AHP  to  join  Newton Abbot Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) as we are expanding our team We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, dynamic nurse who can demonstrate commitment to the provision of high-quality person-centred care. You will participate in the delivery of high standards of care to patients and their families. In particular take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of evidenced-based nursing care to a group of patients Acting as an independent, autonomous practitioner, assessing, diagnosing and discharging patients using sound clinical rationale and work under the direction of the senior practitioner team, in close liaison with interdependent departments. Our philosophy is 'together we can make things better', if this aligns with your ambition, passion and beliefs, we will welcome an application from you. ### Main duties of the job This includes - To provide assessment, treatment management and discharge of adults and children attending the Urgent Treatment Centre - Referral of patients to senior clinicians or interdependent departments promoting professional working relationships - Actively identify and report any clinical risks - Identify educational needs of self and proactively meet these needs - Assess, treat and diagnose patients using nationally recognized tools, for example NEWS / sepsis screening - Work as an autonomous practitioner using competencies including Patient Group Directives - Make clinical decisions using evidence based knowledge - Offer health advice and promotion to patients and their families including education on self-management - Actively participate in any departmental audit both on national and local basis - Undertake ‘link’ role attending relevant meetings and sharing learning with wider team to influence and promote best practice Your duties and responsibilities will be undertaken on a shift and rotation basis covering our opening hours 7 days a week, 365 days of the year ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification. ## Person Specification ### clinical **Essential** - NMC or HCPC registered - evidence of further study post registration in relevant field - experiance of working in ED GP MIU or acute assessment areas **Desirable** - Evidence of clinical teaching - use of PGD's - extended skills such as suturing plastering ## Documents - [junior nurse practitioner/paramedic practitioner jd&ps (docx, 454.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10403423) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.