Senior Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Treatment Centre
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
St Helens, WA10 1HJView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
5 November 2026
17 days leftJob description
St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre is a nurse led facility that reviews and treats patients with minor injuries and urgent conditions. 7 days a week 36...
Triage, assess and treat patients with minor and urgent complaints, working as a autonomous practitioner as part of a wider MDT.
St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre is a nurse led facility that reviews and treats patients with minor injuries and urgent conditions. 7 days a week 365 days a year.
Triage, assess and treat patients with minor and urgent complaints, working as a autonomous practitioner as part of a wider MDT.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
Our Values
Essential: - We are Kind; - We are Open; - We are Inclusive
Qualifications
Essential: - RGN with current NMC Registration
Desirable
- Educated to Degree/Diploma level
- Clinical Examination/Diagnostics Skills Level 7 or equivalent
- Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification (V300) or working towards
Experience
Essential
- Substantial years post registration experience
- Experience in WIC/UTC or ED
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults procedures
Desirable
- Experience of participation in Research and audit skills
- Knowledge of current professional & clinical issues
- Knowledge of how audit may influence quality of patient care
Skills
Essential
- Ability to negotiate and demonstrate a sound problem solving approach to work issues
- Ability to set and establish priorities
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent IT skills
- Effective organisational and record management skills
- Extended scope of practice skills
- Basic treatment of life-threatening disorders - treatment of shock and acute medical conditions Basic life support
- Ability to deal with difficult situations
- Venepuncture and interpreting the results, cannulation
- Ability to recognise the sick patient - ability to prioritise, monitoring vital signs and history taking
Desirable: - Incorporate high quality evidence-based practice in patient centred care; - Leadership & mentoring skills; - Audit skills
Other
Essential: - The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
15 October 2026
Last checked
19 October 2026
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