Senior Urgent Care Practitioner

Job overview

We are looking for a Senior Practitioner to work within Skegness Urgent Treatment Centre, delivering face to face consultations.

We are looking to recruit dynamic individuals with minor illness and minor injury skills that will also compliment the existing team of Senior and Urgent Care Practitioners, ACPs and HCSW's

Main duties of the job

Main duties will be to deliver a 24 hours, 7 day weeks service to the Skegness community. The service will include see, treat and management of patients with both minor injury and minor illness.

See, treat, manage , discharge and or refer patients of all age ranges to other LCHS services or partner services across Lincolnshire

On occasion you may be required to support other urgent care services such as UTC's, home visiting and the Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) which run 24/7 services. There is daily GP support available remotely or in person as well as well-established referral pathways into specialities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will be required to see patients of all ages presenting with injury or illness complaints and complete the episode of care with treatment or referral onwards.

Consultations will either take place face to face or via telephone and documented timely and thoroughly within patient notes.

The post holder will influence, lead, support and motivate colleagues to maintain morale in difficult and challenging situations.

The post holder will provide clinical lead during a shift by modelling the professional attitudes and behaviours outlined in the LCHS behaviours framework.

Please see job description for further details.

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.