# Senior Nurse Practitioner Unscheduled Care Co-ordination Hub > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-nurse-practitioner-unscheduled-care-co-ordination-hub/04fc2b58-85bf-4bd8-9971-ce75df5f2799 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-nurse-practitioner-unscheduled-care-co-ordination-hub/04fc2b58-85bf-4bd8-9971-ce75df5f2799.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Arrowe Park Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (Various 8am - 8pm shifts through out the week / 7 days a week (Mon-Sun)) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T09:01:23.110Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Birkenhead/Wirral_University_Teaching_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/UCCH/UCCH-v8342582 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8342582?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.wuth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Senior Nurse Practitioner to join the newly commissioned Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub (UCCH) at Wirral University Teaching Hospital. This innovative role offers the opportunity to lead and influence a new model of urgent care coordination, improving access to community-based services and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions. The UCCH centralises the management of Urgent Community Response referrals, including Category 3, 4 and 5 referrals from Northwest Ambulance Service. Working closely with community teams across Cheshire and Warrington, NWAS and system partners, you will provide clinical leadership, triage and coordination to ensure timely patient care. ### Main duties of the job To lead within the Unscheduled Care Co-ordination Hub, aligning with the National Framework for Urgent Care Response (UCR) 2 hr response. To provide clinical assessment of acutely unwell patients and to support the frailty initiative by providing senior clinical support to both UCR and community staff. To use established pathways and processes to provide a wide range of acute advise on treatment options in line with community nursing and social care assessments to patients who may potentially be at risk of a hospital admission. To be an autonomous practitioner who has the experience and clinical confidence to assess the needs of the patient and determine if the patient needs further face to face assessment or whether they can be discharged at first point of contact. To support the telephone triage of patients, working with both healthcare professionals and patients in determining the correct clinical pathway depending on their clinical presentation. To provide support to junior members of the team in developing confidence around the decisions to use alternative to admission pathways. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description & Person Specification for more information about the Senior Nurse Practitioner Unscheduled Care Co-ordination Hub opportunity available with WUTH. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - Able to communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and/or contentious information, including where there are barriers to understanding - Advanced clinical reasoning - Excellent interpersonal skills - IT Literate ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - To have an up to date working knowledge of acute, chronic and terminal illness, wound management, care of the elderly and palliative care. - An understanding of the Primary and Secondary Care interface - Demonstrate the application of evidence-based practice - Autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals - Able to demonstrate a depth and breadth of current issues and policies within the NHS and can translate into practice ### Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training **Essential** - RGN Qualification - Masters in advanced practice, or working towards / equivalent experience - Evidence of recent Professional Development - Experience in leadership role - Experience of Clinical Governance and risk assessment - Demonstrable post registration experience - Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent **Desirable** - Independent prescriber - Post graduate qualification in rapid response/community nursing/emergency department/acute medical or equivalent experience - Experience of working in Urgent Care ## Documents - [risk id (pdf, 174.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10671559) - [vision values behaviours (pdf, 515.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2088) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 734.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1841) - [wuth gdpr privacy notice for applicants (pdf, 255.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2506) - [senior nurse practitioner job description and specification unscheduled care co-ordination hub (pdf, 251.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10666918) ## 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. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.