Job summary
Band 7: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Permanent contract
Full time hours (37.5 hours)
Urgent care are delighted to invite applications to the role of Emergency Practitioner. It is a role based both at Queen Alexandra Hospital (QAH) and Gosport War Memorial Hospital (GWMH) and you will be expected to work on either site.
Main duties of the job
You would join our dynamic practitioner led teams in the urgent care departments at QAH and Gosport UTC as a specialist and clinical expert who is expected to provide high quality patient assessment and management of minor injury and illness.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Details
- Date posted: 08 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: REF2306T
- Job locations: Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Bury Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 3PW, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
You will practice autonomously, encompassing the skills of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, discharge and referral of patients, presenting to Urgent Care with undifferentiated injury and illness.
To ensure that you are sufficiently prepared to develop your knowledge, skills, and behaviours to successfully work with us at an enhanced practice level, we expect you to have a sound depth and breadth of clinical experience across the UEC landscape.
For additional information please see attached Job Description
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience (circa more then 4 years) in an acute emergency setting, and some (circa more then1year) as a band 6 working in an autonomous practitioner role.
Qualifications
Essential
- Healthcare Professional registered with either the NMC, the HCPC or the GPhC.
- Completion of an EP Course to degree level or equivalent, or, an appropriate advanced Allied Health professional program of study.
- ENB 998 or C&G 7307 or equivalent teaching/mentorship course.
- Evidence of highly developed specialist knowledge in Minor Injuries underpinned by theory and evidence.
Desirable
- Degree or willing to work towards.
- Evidence of developing practice and continual learning.
- Evidence of teaching.
- Evidence of research and audit.
- Articulate and knowledgeable in current health issues.
- ALS provider.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously and within a team.
- Advanced roles and procedures- advanced X-ray interpretation, ECG interpretation, biochemical requesting and interpretation, venepuncture, cannulation, I.V Drug therapy, plastering, advanced suturing skills, minor invasive operative procedures, manipulation of limbs under LA, Male and Female catheterisation.
- Advanced clinical decision making skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Critical appraisal skills.
- Organisational skills.
- Inter-personal and team building skills
Desirable
- IT skills.
- Research and audit skills.
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This advert is for Urgent Care Emergency Practitioner with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust in Portsmouth, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £49,387 to £56,515 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Jul 2026.
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