Band 7 Emergency Practitioner Lead- Emergency Department
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton Coldfield, B75 7RRView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
25 November 2026
13 days leftJob description
Emergency Practitioner Team Manager Lead with compassion. Inspire your team. Help shape the future of urgent care. Are you an experienced Emergency Pr...
Main duties
You will combine day-to-day operational management with autonomous clinical practice, supporting safe, effective care while creating an environment where your team can thrive. Working with multidisciplinary colleagues, you will:
Provide visible, compassionate leadership, supporting colleagues and championing an inclusive team culture.
Assess and manage patients with minor injuries and illnesses within your scope of competence, promoting safe pathways and timely treatment.
Coordinate staffing, skill mix and resources to respond to changing service needs.
Develop colleagues through supervision, coaching, appraisal and support for learners and trainee Emergency Practitioners.
Use patient feedback, clinical audit and learning from incidents to drive improvements in quality, safety and experience.
You will be an NMC-registered nurse or HCPC-registered paramedic or physiotherapist, with considerable experience as an autonomous Emergency Practitioner assessing minor injuries and illnesses. You will bring relevant postgraduate learning and clinical competencies, including minor injury and minor illness management, and be a proficient non-medical prescriber.
Bring your leadership to our next chapter
Our values; Kind, Connected and Bold guide how we care for patients and work with one another. If you share these values and want to help develop both people and services, we would love to hear from you.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing & Midwifery Council Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by evidence of post graduate academic courses, short course and development of clinical competencies in practice
- evidenced in the following areas:
- * Minor Injury Management (Level 6/7)
- * Minor Illness Management (Level 6/7)
- * Proficient Non-Medical Prescriber
- * Consultation Skills
- * Physical Examination Skills
- * IRMER (Ionising Radiation Medical Exposure Regulation)
- * Interpretation of Images / Xray
- * Adult / Child Life Support Courses
- * PGD practice aligned to Trust procedures
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience working as a Band 7 (or equivalent) Emergency Practitioner in autonomous assessment of minor injury and minor illness.
- Demonstrable ability / experience in working in a multi professional approach to health care delivery and can demonstrate appreciation for complexities of patient access to primary
- /secondary and voluntary care settings.
- Demonstrable understanding of the NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care -- Emergency Practitioner Framework 2023
- Can demonstrate understanding of the National NHS Emergency Care target and the relationship with the role.
- Demonstrable scope of extended practice relevant to the role and can evidence post graduate training in skills related to the role including:
- * Plastering
- * Suturing
- * Wound management / assessment
- Experience in the supervision, mentoring and assessment of learners and junior staff.
- Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with a clinical service.
- Experience in leading and managing teams working in a health / care relating practice setting.
- Experience in participating in the development and updating of policy and procedure. Experience in supporting service change and improvement in a health and care related
- practice setting.
- Demonstrable understanding of UK NHS frameworks and approaches to Emergency and Urgent Care and its application across NHS services
- Well-developed understanding of Child / Adult Safeguarding
Desirable
- Prior experience working as an Emergency
- Practitioner at Band 6 or Equivalent in an urgent / emergency care practice setting as an autonomous practitioner.
- Experience in the recruitment and selection of staff
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
12 November 2026
Last checked
12 November 2026
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