Emergency Clinical Practitioner

• Provide autonomous, unscheduled care to patients presenting with acute undifferentiated conditions, drawing on expert clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills.
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues across Emergency Services, other healthcare professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Contribute to defining and maintaining high standards of care and practice, helping to improve service quality.
• Support senior staff in the operational management and ongoing development of the service.
• Take on shift coordinator responsibilities on a rotational basis, demonstrating leadership in managing day-to-day service operations.
• Achieve and maintain competencies in both adult and paediatric care through structured learning with our Practice Educator.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information clearly and compassionately to patients, carers, and colleagues.
• Deliver care within a culturally sensitive and inclusive framework.
• Participate in implementing, conducting and evaluating service audits to support continuous improvement

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration or Registered Health Professional (physio, paramedic) with HCPC
• Evidence of Minor illness module at Level 6/7 or Evidence of completion of Level 7 Advanced Clinical Assessment Module

Desirable

• Evidence of Minor Injuries Module
• Independent Prescriber (or on pathway to complete)
• University accredited paediatric advanced assessment module
• MSC advanced clinical practice

Essential

• Demonstrable competence in autonomous clinical assessment and management of patients, exercising professional judgement and delivering safe, evidence-based care within scope of practice
• Evidence of consistently delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in accordance with professional standards and best practice
• Experience in working autonomously in an emergency or other unscheduled care environment or working autonomously within a GP surgery.
• Evidence of competence in assessing, managing and escalating care for adults and children at risk of deterioration, with demonstrable experience of timely referral to hospital-based services when clinically indicated

Essential

• Evidence of comprehensive range of clinical skills and expertise relevant to the role
• Leadership skills
• Proactive in identifying own and other's learning and development needs, and actively seek ways to meeting those needs
• Clinical knowledge across a range of long-term conditions.