Urgent Care Practitioner​/Primary Care Paramedic

Job summary

Part-time position of 24-28 hours per week, over 2-3 days (Mondays, Tuesday and Friday.

You will play an integral role in our same-day team triage service, which is a central and essential part of our patient-access model. Home visits would be a part of the role. You will assess patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations, ensuring timely, safe, and effective decision-making and care allocation. Prescribing is not essential, and senior clinical support is always available.

You will join a well-coordinated team including four other UCPs, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, HCAs, physiotherapists, clinical pharmacists, Care Coordinators/Social Prescriber, Mental Health workers, GPs and administrative staff.

The post holder will take a leading role in same-day team triage and home visits for the day, ensuring patients receive rapid assessment and appropriate management, referral, or signposting. They will work autonomously and accountably as an UCP, delivering high-quality, evidence-based clinical care.

They will assess, diagnose, treat, refer, or signpost patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed, or complex symptoms, including minor illness and injury. Advanced clinical reasoning will be applied to make differential diagnoses and formulate effective care plans.

The role includes screening for disease risk factors and early signs of illness, supporting prevention and early intervention. The post holder will also support anticipatory and long-term condition care, including blood pressure monitoring, frailty assessment, and diabetes risk management.

The practitioner will provide patient education, promote self‑care, and empower patients to actively manage their health. They will perform and interpret ECGs, take bloods, swabs, and carry out other investigations within their scope of practice.

Accurate and contemporaneous clinical records will be maintained in line with professional standards. The post holder will work collaboratively with the wider Primary Care Network team, including pharmacists, physiotherapists, social prescribers, and GPs, to ensure integrated, patient‑centred care.

Cutlers Hill Surgery is seeking a self‑motivated, forward‑thinking, and autonomous Urgent Care Practitioner to join our highly skilled and friendly clinical team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within an established, progressive practice committed to innovation, collaborative working, and delivering excellent patient care.

Date posted: 13 August 2026

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: Depending on experience

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part‑time

Reference number: A

Job locations: Bungay Road, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8SG
, United Kingdom

The post holder is a registered Urgent Care Practitioner/Paramedic with relevant postgraduate qualifications, or with a registered Nursing qualification, delivering high‑quality, autonomous clinical care within a general practice setting. Working within professional boundaries, they manage patients from first contact through assessment, diagnosis, treatment, referral and ongoing evaluation, including face‑to‑face, telephone and community‑based consultations. The role requires advanced clinical decision‑making, management of undifferentiated conditions, prescribing and referral in line with agreed pathways, and active participation in triage services.

The post holder works collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, provides clinical leadership, contributes to clinical governance, quality improvement and service development, and maintains professional standards, ongoing education and regulatory compliance to ensure safe, effective and patient‑centred care.

• You must be a registered Paramedic with the Health and Care Professions Council HCPC, or a Registered Nurse with the NMC taking on the role of a UCP with first hand experience of minor illness, acute presentations, and home visiting.

• Experience of working in a GP practice.
• Experience of working in primary care.

• Experience working within a multidisciplinary…