Senior Urgent Care Practitioner

• Autonomously provide patient centred care, including assessment, shared care planning and appropriate referral of service users.
• Undertake a variety of consultation types including face to face, telephone and video.
• Utilise advanced clinical examination skills to support diagnostic reasoning and patient centred care plans.
• Utilise Patient Group Directions or Independent Prescribing (desirable) to appropriately manage patient presentations.
• Undertake shift leadership role to ensure the smooth running of the department. This will include prioritisation of workload based around available resources, support for the clinical and non-clinical teams, acting to ensure the safety of patients and team members and liaising with management and external partners.
• Support unit safety by effectively carrying out initial assessment and prioritisation of presenting patients.
• Provide clinical expertise and advice to colleagues and junior practitioners. This will include formal mentoring of junior colleagues and healthcare students.
• Support the UTC management and colleagues to deliver robust clinical governance and service improvement programs.
• Use of your skills, knowledge, and experience to deliver safe and effective care to our service users

Essential

• Professional Registration with NMC or HCPC
• Relevant undergraduate qualification
• Postgraduate qualification - Urgent or Emergency Practitioner (or similar)

Desirable

• Independent Prescribing qualification
• Mentorship/Supporting Students in Practice qualification

Essential

• Significant experience in a Urgent or Emergency health care setting (including Primary care)
• Experience working as an autonomous practitioner in a Urgent or Emergency health care setting (including Primary Care)
• Experience of clinical leadership
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of minor injuries and illnesses with a wide range of approaches to autonomous management of patients
• Demonstrate ability to work with complex clients and situations and a clear ability to problem-solve

Desirable

• Up to date IRMER qualification
• Ability to interpret x-ray films
• Experience or qualification relevant to remote clinical assessment
• Experience using Patient Group Directions (if not IP qualified)
• Experience undertaking advanced wound care, limb/joint reduction and immobilisation