# Senior Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Treatment Centre

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Location:** St Helens Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-05T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15T10:55:21.237Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8326675
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8326675?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sthk.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre is a nurse led facility that reviews and treats patients with minor injuries and urgent conditions. 7 days a week 365 days a year.

Please note- it is the applicant’s responsibility to seek authorisation from their current manager to be released for the secondment before a formal application is made

The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to review

### Main duties of the job

Triage, assess and treat patients with minor and urgent complaints, working as a autonomous practitioner as part of a wider MDT.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### 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

### Other

**Essential**

- The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs

### Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to negotiate and demonstrate a sound problem solving approach to work issues
- Ability to set and establish priorities
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent IT skills
- Effective organisational and record management skills
- Extended scope of practice skills
- Basic treatment of life-threatening disorders – treatment of shock and acute medical conditions Basic life support
- Ability to deal with difficult situations
- Venepuncture and interpreting the results, cannulation
- Ability to recognise the sick patient – ability to prioritise, monitoring vital signs and history taking

**Desirable**

- Incorporate high quality evidence-based practice in patient centred care
- Leadership & mentoring skills
- Audit skills

### Experience

**Essential**

- Substantial years post registration experience
- Experience in WIC/UTC or ED
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults procedures

**Desirable**

- Experience of participation in Research and audit skills
- Knowledge of current professional & clinical issues
- Knowledge of how audit may influence quality of patient care

### Our Values

**Essential**

- We are Kind
- We are Open
- We are Inclusive

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- RGN with current NMC Registration

**Desirable**

- Educated to Degree/Diploma level
- Clinical Examination/Diagnostics Skills Level 7 or equivalent
- Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification (V300) or working towards

## Documents

- [risk (pdf, 384.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662769)
- [job description (pdf, 200.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662752)
- [staff benefits at mwl (pdf, 5.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2916)
- [person specification (pdf, 176.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662753)
- [mwl recruitment journey (pdf, 884.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2902)
- [important information for candidates (pdf, 128.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=663)
- [helpful tips to complete your application form (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2901)

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