Emergency Nurse/Care Practitioner

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Nhs Trust; Larkhill; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an Emergency Nurse/Care Practitioner to join the Minor Injury Unit at Kidderminster Treatment Centre. The role involves autonomous assessment and treatment of minor injuries within a nurse-led MIU, with a mix of shift patterns including weekdays and weekends.

The successful candidate will operate within a multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality care with strong clinical decision-making and patient education.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration or equivalent.
• Post-registration qualification in Minor Injuries and/or Minor Illness.
• Teaching/Mentorship qualification or NHS Trust Assessor training.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe, effective care from initial presentation through discharge or referral.
• Utilise diagnostic and prescribing skills to ensure high-quality patient outcomes.
• Provide supervision and education to junior staff and students.
• Maintain high standards of professional practice, safeguarding and health promotion.

Skills

Emergency nursing

Autonomous practice

Communication skills

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Minor Injuries/Minor Illness qualification

Tools

Non-medical X-ray referral (IRMER)

IT literacy (EP systems)

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team at the Minor Injury Unit at Kidderminster Treatment Centre. Kidderminster MIU is a busy department open from 8am until 10pm, seven days a week, seeing over 26,000 patients a year.

We are seeking an individual to join our friendly well-established team. The job role requires a friendly, knowledgeable and dedicated individual who will work as an Emergency Nurse/Care Practitioner, providing minor injury assessment and treatments to the patients attending MIU.

Full time and part time hours avalible. The shift pattern consists of 7.30am- 8pm and 10am -10.30pm, over weekdays and weekends.

If you need any further information please contact Vic Ellis - Ward Manager on 01562 512319.

Main duties of the job

The Emergency Nurse/Care Practitioner will work as an autonomous clinician within a nurse led Minor Injury Unit without reference to a doctor, providing expert assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients presenting with minor injuries. They will be part of a team of nursing, medical and allied professionals leading in the delivery of a high-quality service to patients presenting with minor injuries.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job responsibilities

• Deliver safe, effective and evidence-based care from initial presentation through discharge or referral.
• Utilise advanced clinical decision making, diagnostic, and prescribing/PGD skills to ensure high quality patient outcomes.
• Act as a clinical leader, providing supervision, mentorship, and education to junior colleagues and students.
• Promote high standards of professional practice, safeguarding, and health promotion in line with national and local guidance.
• Contribute to service development, audit, research, and quality improvement to enhance patient outcomes and service efficiency.
• Undertake autonomous assessment, diagnose, treatment, and management of patients presenting with minor injuries.
• Order and interpret appropriate investigations (e.g., X-rays, ECGs)
• Prescribe safely and appropriately under independent/non-medical prescribing authority or PGD guidance.
• Provide effective patient education, safety-netting, and discharge planning.
• Recognise, initiate, and escape care for patients requiring urgent or emergency intervention.
• Ensure accurate documentation and use of clinical IT systems in line with Trust policy.
• Will provide clinical support and advice to all members of the Emergency Care team. Will support the key quality indicators ensuring 15-minute triage times and 4 hr breaches are met and assist with initial assessment of all patients in MIU. Will be part of the Kidderminster emergency response team.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Demonstrate compassion, professionalism, and commitment to patient centred care.
• Acts with integrity and promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing service needs.
• Assertive, enthusiastic, dynamic
• Works well under pressure
• Team player
• Time management and organisational skills

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (NMC) or equivalent professional registration (paramedic).
• Post-registration qualification in Minor Injuries and/or Minor illness.
• Teaching/Mentorship qualification or NHS Trust Assessor/Supervisor training.
• Non-medical Xray referrer and up to date IRMER.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.

Desirable

• Independent/Non-medical Prescriber (V300).
• Evidence of management training or equivalent experience.
• Manchester Triage Training.
• Qualification in Minor Illness management.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Advanced assessment, history-taking, and diagnostic reasoning skills.
• Competent in clinical decision-making and safe prescribing.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritise, work under pressure, and manage competing demands.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, governance, and risk management.
• IT literacy, including use of electronic patient record systems.
• Evidence of extended skills: suturing & wound closure.
• Application of plaster casts. Manipulation of fractures.
• Relocation of subluxation .
• Venepuncture/cannulation.
• ECG recording & interpretation.
• X-ray requesting and interpretation.
• Knowledge of person-centred care. Awareness of Equality, Diversity and Cultural differences.
• Knowledge of the individuals responsibility towards health and safety. Aware of infection control measures.
• In-depth knowledge and awareness of safeguarding for adults and children. Able to produce written reports and articulate concerns regarding patient care/safety issues.

Desirable

• Following computer skills: Sunrise, PAS, ICE, PACS, Summary Care Records.

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience in Emergency/Urgent Care/Minor Injury unit.
• Demonstrable experience in autonomous decision-making and patient management.
• Experience supervising and supporting junior staff or students.
• Evidence of involvement in audit, service development, or quality improvement.

Desirable

• Previous leadership or management experience within urgent/emergency care.
• Experience in research or guideline development.
• Complaints handling.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).