
Job requirements
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Personal Qualities
Good attendance record
- Personal Qualities
Flexible approach to working practices
- Personal Qualities
Ability to reflect and promote own learning
- Skills and Attributes
Clinically credible and competent
- Skills and Attributes
Experience of undertaking clinical procedures relevant to WIC/MIU e.g. wound management, use of early warning scores, plastering
- Skills and Attributes
Evidence of working a multi-disciplinary team
- Skills and Attributes
I.T. literate
- Skills and Attributes
Ability to work autonomously
- Skills and Attributes
Good communication skills
- Experience and Knowledge
Minimum of 5 years post registration
- Experience and Knowledge
Understanding of Clinical Governance
- Experience and Knowledge
Recent experience of autonomous clinical decision making
- Experience and Knowledge
Experience in a triage, accident and emergency, minor injuries, a nurse led primary care setting or another specialist area directly relevant to MIU presentations
- Qualifications and professional training
Current registration with NMC
- Qualifications and professional training
First Level Nurse
- Qualifications and professional training
Clinical examination qualification
- Qualifications and professional training
Evidence of post registration development at Degree Level
- Qualifications and professional training
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, relevant to MIU/WIC competences
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and Attributes
Wound closure e.g suturing
- Skills and Attributes
X-Ray interpretation
- Qualifications and professional training
Intermediate Cardiac Life Support
- Qualifications and professional training
Non Medical Prescribing
- Qualifications and professional training
Practitioner Qualification
Job overview
Would you like to join our team of Nurse Practitioners (NP) working at Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Minor Injuries unit based at our Victoria Central Health Centre site.
We are seeking a clinically astute, motivated, enthusiastic Nurse Practitioner to join our well established, experienced and friendly team. This is a valuable opportunity for Nurse Practitioners to work in an established but ever evolving service in which they will further develop and practice their nursing, clinical and leadership skills and contribute to its development.
You will be working within a caring, compassionate team who truly put the patients at the forefront of everything they do. You will also be part of a ground breaking new way of working between primary and community care providers, working towards removing boundaries between these services.
Main duties of the job
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of evidence based nursing & clinical care
To provide expert advice and clinical practice.
To participate in the education and development of self and other staff
To work collaboratively and co-operatively with clinical colleagues to develop services and quality of care delivered.
To autonomously assess, diagnose and treat children and adults who attend the Walk-in Centre with undifferentiated, undiagnosed conditions
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will ideally have experience within a Minor Injuries Unit / A and E department or Walk in Centre/GP surgery and/or urgent care setting and your high standards of patient care will naturally inspire those with whom you work.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Nurse Practitioner (MIU) with Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust in Birkenhead, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Nov 2026.
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