Emergency Care Practitioner

LCW UCC; Isleworth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking Emergency Care Practitioners in Isleworth to deliver high-quality care at the Urgent Treatment Centre. This role requires NMC or HCPC registration and experience in urgent care. Main duties include patient assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, along with leadership within a supportive team. The position offers competitive salary, flexible working opportunities, and a generous benefits package, including NHS pension scheme membership.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Employee assistance program

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Paramedic with NMC or HCPC.
• Extensive experience in emergency or urgent care.
• Demonstrated advanced clinical skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care across the Urgent Treatment Centre.
• Manage a patient list and workload effectively.
• Initiate and maintain high standards of clinical practice.

Skills

Leadership

Time management

Critical thinking

Excellent communication

Education

NMC registered Nurse or HCPC registered Paramedic

Advanced Life Support Instructor

Job description

London Central & West UCC are looking for Emergency Care Practitioners to join our team at West Middlesex Urgent Treatment Centre.LCW are currently working in partnership with Chelsea & WestminsterHospital Trust to provide clinical care at the UTC.

We are looking for ECPs who wish to work full time or part time to join our skilledclinicians and build a career, not justa job. You should be either NMC or HCPC registered, with experience working in urgent care.

Main duties of the job

Working Pattern:

12 hours shifts, 3 days per week across 7 days

As an ECP in the Urgent Treatment Centre, you will be partof the team delivering excellent care to one of the most diverse populations inNorthwest London. You will be responsible for the autonomous clinicalassessment, treatment and/or referral or giving advise as appropriate. You willbe responsible for handling a wide case mix, supporting GPs and ANPs within thescope of a typical ECP at an Urgent Treatment Centre.

You will be working autonomously in a fast-paced environmentand part of a multi-disciplinary team which is supportive and open. ECPs play avital role in the shaping of our UTC services, and you will be part of a teamwhich is encouraged to be innovative and shape patient flow and streamlineefficiencies.

In exchange, we offer a generous benefits package and you can optin/remain in the NHS pension scheme. We also offer an employee assistance program, and flexible working opportunities.

About us

LCW is a clinically-led, socialenterprise provider of integrated urgent and primary care services to the NHS.We provide services across North West, North Central and North East London. Weare committed to constantly improving our services to meet the needs of ourpatients and do this by working collaboratively with system partners toinnovate and develop robust and effective clinical pathways.

We put patients and commissionersfirst, not profits. For over 25 years, LCW has been supporting Londons healthsystem by working in partnership with other care providers to deliver value formoney, responsive urgent and unscheduled care, ensuring patients get the bestpossible care in the right place, at the right time.

Our staff make a real difference in the lives of localcommunities, join us to see for yourself.

Job responsibilities

• To participate in assessment, planning and delivery of direct patientcare across the Urgent Treatment Centre
• Must be able to clearly demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills atan advanced level
• Will practice autonomously and within a defined multidisciplinary teamin accordance with local guidelines and protocols
• Provide initial history taking clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatmentand evaluation of care
• Demonstrate critical thinking in the decision-making process
• Deliver a professional approach to the provision of high-quality care
• To be fully accountable and responsible for own patient list andmanaging workload during shift
• Independently assess, investigate, diagnose and treat patients withincompetency.
• Manage see and treat environment safely, ensure safe and effectivepractice at all times from all key personnel working within that area.
• To initiate, promote and maintain high standards of practice within theteam in line with departmental requirements.
• To provide clinical expertise both on shift and when representing thedepartment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NMC registered Nurse or HCPC registered Paramedic
• Evidence of relevant CPD
• Qualifications to support emergency and/or urgent care practice
• Advanced Life Support Instructor

Experience

• Extensive experience in relevant field in current clinical practice in an emergency or urgent care environment
• Relevant transferable skills
• Ability to demonstrate advanced clinical skills e.g. history taking, physical assessments and clerking of patients presenting with undifferentiated diagnoses
• Evidence of innovative practice developments and significant achievements gained

Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrates excellent leadership, organisational, time management and motivational skills
• Advocate to service users
• Ability to identify training needs of self
• Ability to request relevant investigations and interpret findings
• Ability to apply critical thinking/independent judgement to identify solutions to variable problems
• Ability to organise and delegate appropriately
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the management of the patient caseload, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning, specialist knowledge and experience
• Excellent communicator of complex matters at all levels
• Ability to communicate complex or sensitive information about wellbeing to anxious patients and relatives
• Ability to build effective working relationships with clinicians and Managers at all levels
• Effective partnership with the wider multidisciplinary team

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.

£50,000 a yearplus unsociable hours enhancements