Urgent Care Clinical Lead

• Provide visible clinical leadership across both weekday and out-of-hours services, including evening and weekend clinical shifts within the Primary Care Centre.
• Maintain regular autonomous clinical practice, assessing, diagnosing and managing patients with minor illness and urgent care needs.
• Lead recruitment, appraisal, supervision and professional development of multidisciplinary staff.
• Oversee clinical governance, risk management, patient safety, incident investigations and quality improvement activity.
• Lead medicines management, prescribing governance and medication safety initiatives.
• Support the development and governance of Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
• Analyse service performance data and implement improvements to enhance patient outcomes and operational effectiveness.
• Work collaboratively with operational, governance and medical colleagues to drive service development and innovation.

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Essential

• Registered General Nurse (NMC) or Registered Paramedic (HCPC).
• Master's degree in advanced clinical practice or equivalent postgraduate qualification.
• Recognised Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification.
• Independent Prescriber qualification.
• Evidence of advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and decision-making skills.

Desirable

• Leadership and management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Teaching, mentorship or clinical supervision qualification.
• IR(ME)R certification or equivalent radiation protection training (where role appropriate).

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to advanced clinical practice.
• Evidence of leadership and management development.
• Evidence of maintaining prescribing competence and medicines management knowledge
• Participation in clinical audit, quality improvement or service evaluation activities.
• Commitment to lifelong learning and professional development.

Desirable

• Participation in research, publication or dissemination of best practice.

Essential

• Significant experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within urgent care, primary care, community or equivalent healthcare setting
• Experience of providing autonomous assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients presenting with minor illness and/or urgent care needs.
• Experience of leading and managing multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of workforce management including recruitment, appraisal, supervision and performance management.
• Experience of clinical governance, risk management and patient safety processes.
• Experience of leading quality improvement, service development or transformation initiatives.
• Experience of medicines management, prescribing governance and medication safety.
• Experience of analysing performance data and implementing improvement plans.
• Experience of supporting Advanced Clinical Practitioners, trainee ACPs or other clinicians through supervision and development.

Desirable

• Experience of budget management and resource planning.

Essential

• Expert knowledge and skills in advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and management.
• Sound knowledge of urgent care pathways, national standards and relevant clinical guidance.
• Comprehensive understanding of clinical governance, risk management and patient safety frameworks
• Knowledge of medicines legislation, prescribing governance and medicines optimisation principles.
• Knowledge of safeguarding adults and children and associated statutory responsibilities
• Ability to provide professional and clinical leadership across multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to lead change, innovation and service improvement programmes.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to analyse complex information, make decisions and solve problems effectively.
• Ability to prioritise workload, manage competing demands and achieve objectives within agreed timescales.

Desirable

• Knowledge of workforce planning, staff development and succession planning principles.
• Understanding of research methodologies and implementation of evidence-based practice.

Essential

• Demonstrates Trust values and behaviours.
• Professional, resilient and credible leader.
• Able to work autonomously and exercise sound professional judgement
• Flexible and adaptable to service needs.
• Ability to travel between sites as required.
• Full UK driving licence and access to transport.