ECP​/Nurse - Integrated Neighbourhood Team

ECP/Nurse - Integrated Neighbourhood Team

Job summary:

The SS9 North and South offers a role for a hardworking and enthusiastic Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP) / Nurse to join the Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT). The role involves working across all practices in SS9 North and South Primary Care Networks (PCNs) on a full‑time basis, 37.5 hours per week.

• Undertake practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care.
• Assess patients with a range of conditions; take history, examine, assess risk, formulate differential diagnoses and develop, implement and evaluate treatment and management plans.
• Plan, assess and provide patient-centred treatment plans in collaboration with patients, families and carers.
• Advocate for patients and families, ensuring needs, wishes and rights are safeguarded.
• Refer patients to appropriate services and organisations, ensuring timely escalation of concerns.
• Provide follow‑ups and welfare checks to assess progress and ensure safety.
• Request appropriate investigations, including pathological investigations and diagnostic imaging, according to procedures.
• Empower patients through clear explanation of assessment findings, treatment plans, investigations and options.
• Advise patients on general health, health promotion, illness prevention and self‑care strategies.
• Work within licence restrictions, professional scope and boundaries of competence; acknowledge and upscale limitations when necessary.
• Attend relevant meetings and represent PACT professionally, sharing outcome data and accessing resources that support patients and reduce admission risk.
• Manage clinical caseload and provide operational oversight of workflow and activity levels relevant to the service.
• Be able to use digital and information technology systems to plan, record and audit care.

The Integrated Neighbourhood Team operates across both SS9 North and SS9 South Primary Care Networks (PCNs), providing support to patients who are housebound or transitioning from hospital to community care. The team’s aim is to deliver person‑centred care in a timely and coordinated manner, helping patients remain safely at home, optimise independence, and reduce avoidable hospital readmissions.

• Posted date: 23 December 2025
• Salary:
  Depending on experience, DOE
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full‑time
• Reference number: 29254
• Job locations:
  Leigh Primary Care Centre, 918 London Road, Leigh on Sea, Essex, SS9 3NG

• Registered paramedic with current HCPC registration and post‑registration experience, ideally with experience in primary care.

• Effective assessment, planning, treatment and referral of patients.
• Confident evaluation of patient care.
• Experience working to protocols and guidelines.
• Excellent verbal and non‑verbal communication skills.
• Clear decision making with confident communication.
• Understanding of training and capability parameters per Health and Care Professions Council.
• Autonomous practice and multi‑professional team working experience.
• Broad knowledge of complex and common primary care conditions.

Applicants must provide a Disclosure and Barring Service check, subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Primary Care Careers
Leigh Primary Care Centre
918 London Road
Leigh on Sea
Essex
SS9 3NG

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Health Care Provider

Hospitals