Urgent Care Practitioner/ Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

Emergency Nurse Practitioner/ Urgent Care Practitioner – Qualified and trainee post opportunities available

Are you a dynamic, enthusiastic individual who can work well within a team and individually, do you have a desire for learning, personal development and supporting the continued development of our Urgent and Emergency Care services? Do you thrive on delivering excellent patient care and experience and could help drive the future aspirations of the department as a member of our team, if so we want to hear from you…….

As an Organisation and Emergency Department we are pleased to be advertising a number of Emergency Nurse Practitioner/ Urgent Care Practitioner posts as part of our new build and development of the urgent care service co- located within the Emergency Department. We are fortunate to of had a £30 million investment and development of a brand new purpose built Emergency Department, which comprises of an 6 bedded resus area, Rapid Assessment Triage and ambulance handover area, 35 clinical rooms including a paediatric area, 2 triage rooms and a dedicated area with 6 clinical rooms for the Urgent Care Service. The new build provides an excellent environment to see and treat patients attending with an emergency or urgent complaints ensuring they are seen in the right place, by the right person whilst maintaining national emergency care standards.

Main duties of the job

Working in the Urgent Care Service consists of a 24 hour service,  you will be seeing, assessing and discharging patients who present with Minor Illnesses and Minor Injuries.

The department offers an extensive career development pathway and significant investment have been made to support the continued training and education of the UCS team linked to each individual role, including RCN Level 1&2 competencies,  and for autonomous practitioners IRMER training, Minor Illness, Minor Injury training and access to educational courses as well as a comprehensive development and competency pathways.

If you are interested in applying for  the above role please follow the advert further for specific job description, person specifications and interview details. If you would like to discuss any of the roles further or would like an informal visit please contact the Emergency Department.

Interview details are attached to the advert

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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