Senior Emergency Care Practitioner

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking experienced Emergency Practitioners for its Minor Injuries Unit. The role involves providing high-quality care and managing minor injuries in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in urgent care. This position offers opportunities for professional development within a supportive team.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Dynamic team environment

Qualifications

• Must hold a PG Cert/PG diploma in minor injury/illness.
• Experience in urgent and emergency care is essential.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care with multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate specialist skills in minor injury management.
• Order and interpret laboratory investigations.

Skills

Advanced assessment skills

Clinical reasoning

Education

Level 6 or 7 PG Cert/PG diploma in minor injury/illness

Job description

The closing date is 07 October 2025

Overview

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust provide emergency services at our purpose built Minor Injuries Unit based at UHCW and at our Urgent Treatment Centre based at St Cross Hospital in Rugby and City of Coventry Health Centre. All sites have dedicated facilities and allocated staff to provide care 7 days a week 24 hours a day. The practitioner (Adult only) within the Minor Injuries Unit/Urgent Treatment Centre is a clinical expert playing a key role in delivering high quality, timely care to patients presenting with minor illness and injury. This is a fast paced, independent role requiring excellent clinical reasoning and decision making skills.

Applicants must hold either a Level 6 or 7 PG Cert/PG diploma in minor injury/illness with demonstratable experience in urgent and emergency care.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking motivated and experienced Emergency Practitioners (Adults Only) who are able to demonstrate that they can see, treat and independently discharge adult patients from our Minor Injuries Unit to join our dynamic team. As a senior member of the team you will be involved in the clinical and managerial aspects of caring for Emergency patients attending our busy department. Primary duties include:

• Co-ordinate the care of the UTC/MIU patients throughout the care pathway with the multidisciplinary team and clinical services to ensure the effective management of this group of patients.
• Demonstrate specialist skills, knowledge, and expertise in the management of minor injury and minor illness conditions in line with Scope of practice.
• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
• Using advanced history taking skills, obtain a patient history in a systematic manner including pertinent physical, social, emotional, psychological, or environmental factors.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK. We are proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare. We are recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation. More details are available on our site.

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and diverse perspectives available in our society. We want everyone to feel respected, valued, able to achieve their potential, and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Job responsibilities

• Using advanced physical assessment skills, undertake physical examination as appropriate, including techniques of look, feel and move, observation, inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion, with safe use of diagnostic equipment where appropriate.
• Order and interpret appropriate laboratory and radiology investigations to distinguish between normal and abnormal findings and relate these to possible diagnoses.
• Make clinical decisions using analytical and judgmental skills to reach a diagnosis and effectively communicate these decisions, care pathways, and policies to patients/carers and the multidisciplinary team.
• Develop and implement a plan of healthcare management including treatment and appropriate referral for further evaluation or follow up care; take clinical responsibility for the diagnosis, management and discharge/referral/transfer of the patient and offer health promotion strategies where appropriate.
• Utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce, and resource data. Responsible for documenting all clinical notes both computerised and paper based.
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with colleagues and other members of the multidisciplinary and multi professional teams to promote the Emergency Practitioner role in patient care.
• Provide clinical teaching and develop knowledge and skills of junior staff in the Emergency Practitioner team, while remaining up to date with clinical and professional developments; share knowledge and expertise within and outside the organisation.
• Support resuscitation and stabilisation of adults and children using relevant skills (ILS/PILS/EPALS) as appropriate.
• Consider safeguarding concerns for adults and children and take appropriate action; liaise with named safeguarding teams as necessary.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

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Skills and Abilities

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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.

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