Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Sussexcommunity; Crawley; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking dedicated professionals to join their multidisciplinary team. This role focuses on delivering high-quality, patient-centered care, utilizing advanced clinical skills to assess and treat minor injuries and illnesses. You will lead and collaborate with a diverse group of healthcare professionals, ensuring effective communication and care standards. With a commitment to compassionate leadership and continuous improvement, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the community while enjoying flexible working options and excellent career development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible Working Options

Excellent Training and Development Opportunities

Cost-effective Workplace Nurseries

Supportive Networks for Diversity and Inclusion

Beautiful Sussex Location Near the Coast

Qualifications

• Current registration with the relevant regulatory body, e.g., NMC for nurses.
• Post registration qualification or training to master's level or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessment, planning, and delivery of patient care in the unit.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals to ensure seamless care delivery.

Skills

Compassionate Leadership

Advanced Clinical Skills

Assessment and Diagnosis

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Education

Post Registration Qualification or Training to Masters Level

Current Registration with Regulatory Body

Evidence of Relevant Postgraduate Courses

Tools

NHS Systems

Job description

Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality, safe, and effective patient-centred care. This involves assessing and prioritizing patients upon arrival based on clinical need, promoting interdisciplinary working and cross-skilling among staff.

Developing key partnerships and ensuring effective whole system working through communication and collaboration across organisational boundaries. As an autonomous practitioner, providing comprehensive care packages using advanced clinical skills and decision-making abilities to assess, diagnose, and treat patients with minor injuries and illnesses. Working with other practitioners to define and improve standards of care and practice. Additionally, liaising with senior staff to manage and coordinate the Urgent Treatment Centre, including managing staff and consumables.

Main duties of the job

1. Ensures that all staff including temporary staff and students in the unit are aware of emergency procedures to follow.
2. Leads others in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of care of patients in the unit in accordance with Trust ENP Guidelines and departmental protocols prior to discharge home or transfer of the patient to another hospital.
3. You will use advanced assessment skills to enable differential diagnosis of patient's conditions.
4. You will be a prescriber or be willing to undertake the non-medical prescribing course to enable you to prescribe for adults and paediatrics within your scope of practice for minor injuries and illness.
5. Prescribe medications and administer treatments within scope of practice, adhering to clinical guidelines and protocols.
6. Offer advice on preventive measures, self-management strategies, and follow-up care to promote continuity of care beyond the urgent treatment center setting.
7. Work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals within the urgent treatment center, including doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals, to ensure seamless delivery of care.
8. With due regard to Risk Management policies and procedures, ensure that a safe environment for patients, relatives, carers and staff is maintained.
9. To ensure provision of professional leadership and supervision to staff within own discipline and facilitation of appropriate professional leadership for other disciplines.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values

--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence-- guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and personal specification for further details in regard to this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and / or professional registration

• Current registration with the relevant regulatory body (e.g., NMC for nurses, HCPC for allied health professionals)
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality
• Post Registration qualification or training to masters level or equivalent and experience
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role
• Evidence of leadership education / development or a willingness to undertake this

Experience

• Significant experience in an autonomous practice role
• Experience of undertaking PDRs and supervision
• Experience of leading within a multiprofessional team / collaborative working
• Experience of delivering quality improvement, innovation and productivity
• Evidence of active participation in audit and clinically relevant research

Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrates knowledge of compassionate leadership.
• Understanding and knowledge of current issues in the NHS

Other

• Ability to work with flexible working patterns
• Ability to travel between sites, car owner/driver, with access to a vehicle for work purposes

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.

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum / pro rata