Senior Emergency Practitioner - Swale MIU

Job overview

Emergency Practitioner - Swale MIU

Directorate:  Medicine & Emergency Care

Band:   7

Salary:  £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/pro rata

Interview date: Wednesday 17th June 2026

Medway Foundation Trust Emergency Department (Swale MIU)

• Do you want to be part of an innovative and award-winning team?
• Do you want to have a clear plan of continuing professional development and career opportunities?
• Are you committed to delivering evidence-based care?

If you have answered yes:

Apply to join our team working within Medicine & Emergency Care at Sittingbourne & Sheppey Hospitals.

Main duties of the job

We are committed to ensuring that we have the right staff with the right skills, to effectively manage the care of patients attending for emergency treatment, so investing in your development is crucial to our strategy.

We see over 140,000 patients per year, including up to 150 ambulance arrivals per day.

To meet this challenge we are increasing our workforce, investing in their professional development and introducing new and innovative roles.

Medicine & Emergency Care (Swale MIU) provides an exciting and rewarding career; at Medway we offer a support and development package that has received national acknowledgement and was recently voted the winner at the annual Nursing Times Workforce 2020, Health Service Journal 2021 and Nursing Times Awards 2021.

Working in Emergency Care (Swale MIU) can be stressful and challenging; you will need to be resilient and hard working.

Working for us opens a world of opportunity, if you would like to discuss a career with us, please contact Maria Urban, Clinical Team Lead [email protected] for further information or to arrange an informal visit.

As part of our ongoing commitment to professional development we are offering a number of apprenticeships and training opportunities in Leadership and Management, Business Services, Finance, Accounting and HR, Clinical Support Work, Research and Innovation, Nursing Associate and Assistant Practitioner alongside our in-house comprehensive clinical pathways.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This exciting opportunity is for the right person who is highly motivated and has an interest in minor injuries and illness. The applicant should be a Registered Practitioner with an expanded scope of practice and evidence of professional progression.

This role will play a key role in assessing, diagnosing, treating and discharging patients attending for Urgent and Emergency treatment.

The post holder will liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team to coordinate safe effective and timely care practices within the MIU.

Provide clinical and professional leadership and supervision to nursing, supporting staff and students within the MIU.

Provide nursing leadership and expert input to ensure effective flow into and out of the Emergency Department (MIU) on a day-to-day basis

To promote an enabling, empowering and equitable culture, thereby ensuring services provided are of a high quality and are managed effectively and efficiently.