Job summary
Senior Emergency Practitioner - Band 7
Trowbridge MIU Unit
37.5 Hours per week - Permanent
Do you enjoy working in a busy environment where no two shifts are the
same?
Would you like to work in a highly supportive team with excellent opportunities
for development and progression?
Do you want to fully utilise and develop your clinical skills underpinned
with funded Masters Level Training as an Emergency Practitioner?
If so, our Minor Injury Units are the place for you!
Wiltshire Health and Care have two Minor Injury Units, in Chippenham and
Trowbridge, that treat approximately 2000 patients across the service per
month, making a real difference, providing care closer to home and avoiding
admission to hospital wherever possible and appropriate. Our aim is to closely
integrate with the Primary Care Network to widen the conditions we are able to
support within our units. Both units offer a unique experience of care
requirements, and you will have the opportunity to work across both sites.
Main duties of the job
As an Emergency Practitioner you will be a Registered Nurse or Paramedic.
You will need to have the desire to autonomously assess and treat patients. You
will have excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills along with
the ability to lead together with a passion to provide patient centred care.
You will be working across a shift system which includes evenings, weekends and
bank holidays.
You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team who pride themselves on
their excellent team working and support of each other whilst treating a
diverse range of conditions. You will have excellent opportunities for learning
and development with access to a wide range of courses to develop your clinical
skills along the four pillars of care. You will be supported to obtain the
Non-Medical Prescribing qualification if not already part of your skill set.
This role will provide you with a challenging but rewarding opportunity
to utilise your skills and to deliver excellent care to a wide group of
patients. We are happy to consider standard and long day shift patterns.
Please don't hesitate to contact Barry Iedema if you would like any
further information or to arrange an informal visit via 07392 280263
About us
Wiltshire Health and Care provides community based health
services, enabling people to live healthy independent lives. Our Vision is to enable people to live independant and fulfilling lives for as long as possible. We are an NHS
partnership organisation, focused entirely on delivering quality health and
care to the people of Wiltshire - not on making a profit.
There has never been a better time to join us. Community
services are expanding as part of the NHS Long Term Plan and the population of
Wiltshire has never needed the energy, enthusiasm and commitment of our
community-focused teams more than now. You will join a friendly and supportive
team who live our values of Quality, Integrity, Partnership and Change, which
were developed with our staff, patients and carers.
If you already live in or near Wiltshire, youll know that
it is a great place to live and work: rolling countryside, bustling market
towns and vibrant city life combined with excellent transport links and good
schools. If you are looking to move to the area, we offer local employment and
a chance to play a crucial role as part of your new community straight away.
What are you waiting for?!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached
Job Description (under Supporting Documents) for more information regarding the
role and to access the full person specification.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience within ED/MIU including appropriate experience as an autonomous practitioner at Band 6 or above
- Audit: Carry out, evaluate and action findings
- Clinical Supervision
- Appraisal
- Teaching
- Organisational political awareness
- Legal and Professional awareness
- Finance and budgets, high level and local provision
- High level of clinical knowledge
- Current National and local issues in healthcare provision
- Paediatrics
- Worked collaboratively in teams
- Demonstrates achievement in quality/practice development
- Demonstrates ability to develop staff
- Demonstrates ability to implement change
- Thorough and up-to-date knowledge of nursing theory and best practiceThorough understanding of equality and diversity, its application to managing self, staff and patients across the Trust
- Understanding your Professional Bodies Code of Practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self
- Evidence of effective budgetary management
Desirable
- Evidence of involvement in service users advocacy and complaints resolution
- Cannulation
- Ability to undertake research
Qualifications
Essential
- Live registration with regulatory body as relevant to profession i.e. NMC / HCPC
- Emergency Nurse Practitioner course at Level 3
- Teaching: ENB998; FETC 730 or equivalent
- Immediate Life Support (Adult and child)
- Degree (or able to demonstrate recent study at this level and willingness to complete).
Desirable
- Masters degree
- Management course NEBS or equivalent
- Non-medical prescribing
- Child Protection level 3
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Access to a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and hold a full and valid driving licence.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Wiltshire Health and Care LLP
Address
Trowbridge Community Hospital
Adcroft Street
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 8PH