Senior Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Treatment Centre

Merseywestlancs; St Helens; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre is a nurse-led facility in St Helens that reviews and treats patients with minor injuries and urgent conditions, operating 7 days a week. This Band 6 post is a 12-month fixed term/secondment based at Millennium Centre and requires release from current manager before application.

Applicants must be an RGN with current NMC registration, educated to degree/diploma level, and ideally hold or be working towards Non-Medical Prescribing (V300).

Qualifications

• RGN with current NMC Registration.
• Educated to Degree/Diploma level.
• Clinical Examination/Diagnostics Skills Level 7 or equivalent.
• Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification (V300) or working towards.

Responsibilities

• Triage, assess and treat patients with minor and urgent complaints, working as a autonomous practitioner as part of a wider MDT.

Skills

NMC Registration

Autonomous practitioner

Venepuncture

MDT collaboration

Clinical examination

Education

Degree/Diploma level

Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) or working towards

Job description

We want talented and enthusiastic people from all backgrounds to join #TeamMWL, with us you can learn, grow and develop yourself and your career, realising your true ambitions and aspirations.

Whatever you’re looking for in your career, you’ll find it here at MWL.

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Urgent Treatment Centre Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment) Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week Job ref 409-8326675

Site Millennium Centre Town St Helens Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 05/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre is a nurse led facility that reviews and treats patients with minor injuries and urgent conditions. 7 days a week 365 days a year.

Please note- it is the applicant’s responsibility to seek authorisation from their current manager to be released for the secondment before a formal application is made

The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to review

Main duties of the job

Triage, assess and treat patients with minor and urgent complaints, working as a autonomous practitioner as part of a wider MDT.

Working for our organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre is a nurse led facility that reviews and treats patients with minor injuries and urgent conditions. 7 days a week 365 days a year.

Triage, assess and treat patients with minor and urgent complaints, working as a autonomous practitioner as part of a wider MDT.

Person specification

Our Values

• We are Kind
• We are Open
• We are Inclusive

Qualifications

• RGN with current NMC Registration
• Educated to Degree/Diploma level
• Clinical Examination/Diagnostics Skills Level 7 or equivalent
• Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification (V300) or working towards

Experience

• Substantial years post registration experience
• Experience in WIC/UTC or ED
• Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
• Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults procedures
• Experience of participation in Research and audit skills
• Knowledge of current professional & clinical issues
• Knowledge of how audit may influence quality of patient care

Skills

• Ability to negotiate and demonstrate a sound problem solving approach to work issues
• Ability to set and establish priorities
• Effective organisational and record management skills
• Extended scope of practice skills
• Basic treatment of life-threatening disorders – treatment of shock and acute medical conditions Basic life support
• Ability to deal with difficult situations
• Venepuncture and interpreting the results, cannulation
• Ability to recognise the sick patient – ability to prioritise, monitoring vital signs and history taking
• Incorporate high quality evidence-based practice in patient centred care
• Audit skills

Other

• The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.

The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

As a Disability Confident Leader , we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact [e-mail]

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.

The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.

Certificate of Sponsorship

eVisa Update

For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK.

Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account.

Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:

• Understand how to generate an eVisa share code

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.

Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.

If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

Flexible Working

We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:

• All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
• There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
• Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.

At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.

Working for Team MWL

Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.

You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.

Additional Information

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here .

An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.