Senior Practitioner - UTC

Job overview

An exciting opportunity is available for a Senior UTC Practitioner to join the Gateshead Urgent Care Service working between the Urgent Treatment Centres at Blaydon and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

This is a time of development and improvement for our UTCs, with potential for investment and development as part of the plan to improve Urgent and Emergency Care in the Trust.

Main duties of the job

You will join the team working in our Urgent Treatment Centres, joining the team as a senior practitioner with responsibility for reviewing and treating patients in the urgent care setting (including both minor injury and minor illness). This role will also support junior colleagues in both formal and informal development and mentorship. This role is responsible for acting as ‘Shift Lead’ in both QEH and Blaydon UTCs, acting as a key point of contact on shift. The role also has responsibility for front desk streaming at QEH to support patients to receive healthcare in the most appropriate setting for their complaint.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, evidence based and patient focused care and treatment planning, primarily in the UTC setting but also throughout all areas of Urgent and Emergency Care and be accountable for this.
• Use national and local guidelines to support safe decision making and practice.
• Have a sound grounding in history taking, clinical skills and knowledge of illness/injuries.
• Order relevant investigations based on clinical review of the patient and collaboration with senior members of the medical and MDT where appropriate.
• Be able to interpret clinical investigations such as x-rays and act on these findings appropriately.
• To continuously improve clinical care standards in line with the clinical governance framework.
• To ensure ongoing clinical and professional development.
• Be able to prescribe medications appropriate to treatment plans.
• To be aware of own scope of practice and work within that appropriately while continuing to develop own knowledge and skills safely through education and competency-based assessment.
• To work flexibly across ED and UTCs where required on both sites.

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.