Lead UTC Practitioner

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a highly motivated Lead UTC Practitioner to join their Urgent Care Service. The role involves leading urgent treatment centres, conducting clinical education and appraisals, and ensuring high-quality patient care. Candidates must have substantial supervisory experience and be a certificated mentor for student nurses. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of urgent care services in the region.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing support initiatives

Diverse staff networks

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in supervising and appraising teams.
• Certificated mentor for student nurses.
• Background in service improvement and audit.

Responsibilities

• Lead the urgent treatment centres and manage team development.
• Conduct clinical education, appraisal, supervision, and performance reviews.
• Shape the team and service delivery to ensure high-quality care.

Skills

Supervision and appraisal experience

Clinical education

Service improvement

Mentoring student nurses

Job description

An exciting opportunity is available for a highly motivated Lead UTC Practitioner to join the Gateshead Urgent Care Service working between theUrgent TreatmentCentresat Blaydon and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

This is a time of development and improvement for our UTCs, with potential for investment and development as part of the plan to improve Urgent and Emergency Care in the Trust.

Main duties of the job

You will be lead of the Urgent Treatment Centres, and committed to personal and team development and expected to carry out clinical education, appraisal, supervision and performance reviews in order to develop all staff and students within the team. Substantial experience of supervision and appraisal of a team is essential, as well as being a certificated mentor for student nurses.

The post holder must be able to demonstrate the ability to take on new challenges and will be involved in the continuous shaping and development of the teamand the overall Urgent CareService tomeet any changes in service delivery and to ensure a high quality of care to all patients. Previous involvement in service improvement and audit is therefore required.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.