Emergency Nurse/Care Practitioner

Herefordshire And Worcestershire Health And Care Nhs Trust; Malvern Wells; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Flexible working

Career development opportunities

Staff wellbeing

Job summary

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust invites an experienced ENP/ECP to join the Minor Injury Unit at Malvern Community Hospital. The role is 34.5 hours per week, offering autonomy, clinical variety and opportunities to develop within emergency care.

You will assess, treat and discharge minor injuries, deputise for the MIU Lead, and work with a supportive team across the trust. UK registration required.

Qualifications

• Significant ENP/Care Practitioner experience in a minor injuries or A&E setting.
• Autonomous practitioner with broad clinical skills.
• Experience of suturing, infiltration, plaster application.

Responsibilities

• Assess, treat and discharge patients with minor injuries autonomously.
• Provide expert knowledge to junior team members and support developmental role.
• Deputise for the MIU Lead to ensure a consistent workforce across units.

Skills

Autonomous practitioner

A&E/MIU experience

Suturing

Clinical skills

Education

RN/ECP/AHP

Job description

Job summary

If you are a practicing Emergency Clinical/Nurse Practitioner and want another challenge or feel it is time you progressed your career, we would love you to come and join our Team within our Trust. An excellent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, experienced ENP/ECP to join our Minor Injury Unit at Malvern Community Hospital part of Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health & Care Trust - the post is for 34.5 hours a week. The ability to use your initiative, work proactively, demonstrate excellent clinical skills and communication skills, be part of the team but at the same time prioritising your own workload and responding flexibly to changing demands are essential requirements of the role. The role will provide you with variety and no two days are the same. You will have autonomy to balance and achieve the demands of the role so will need to demonstrate your ability to be responsive and flexible to be able meet the requirements of the role. Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.

Main duties of the job

• Be expected to be autonomous practitioner, responsible for assessing, treating, discharging patients attending with minor injuries.
• Be an experienced clinician and as an ENP/ECP be responsible for providing expert knowledge and skills to more junior members of the team with a willingness to professionally develop their role within the everchanging scope of emergency care.
• Deputise for Countywide MIU Lead in times of absence, ensuring a consistent workforce within all Units, providing equitable care to all patients.
• Provide a holistic, autonomous, clinical nursing service by attending to all referrals/self-referrals to the Minor Injury Unit. Assessing their physical, psychological and social needs, implementing all agreed management plan with patients including appropriate investigations, prescribing and referral, within PGD's.
• Be innovative, continually striving for improvement.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites. We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

Essential experience

• Significant experience working as an ENP/Care Practitioner within a minor injuries or A&E environment.
• Broad range of clinical experience including autonomous practitioner skills, specialist skills gained from working in an A&E environment, for example, suturing, infiltration, plaster application.
• Clinical audit/project work.

Desirable experience

• Previous Acute/Community Hospital Experience

Essential qualifications

• RN/ECP/AHP - OT, Physio, Non-medical x-ray referrer and up to date CALRAD/IRMER ILS/PILS Evidence of ongoing continual professional development

Desirable qualifications

• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Independent / supplementary prescriber

Essential knowledge

• High level of clinical knowledge and skill gained from working within a Minor Injury/ Urgent Care or A&E unit or an appropriate setting where these skills may be obtained.

Details

Closing date: 09 November 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 798-8387728

Location: MIU Department Malvern Community Hospital, 185 Worcester Road, Malvern, WR14 1EX

Contact

For questions about the job, contact MIU Team Lead Nicola Wood at [e-mail] or 01684612621.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.