Senior Practitioner Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Katalysysts Consulting; Swindon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a Senior Practitioner within a state-of-the-art Urgent Treatment Centre. This role involves providing clinical expertise, ensuring high-quality patient care, and leading a dedicated team in a collaborative environment. You will actively participate in clinical audits, manage risks, and contribute to departmental policies, all while promoting the health and well-being of patients. Join a forward-thinking organization that values service, teamwork, ambition, and respect, and make a meaningful impact on the local community's health. This is your chance to thrive in a dynamic healthcare setting!

Qualifications

• Provide clinical expertise for patient care and treatment.
• Work autonomously and lead junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat patients using recognised clinical tools.
• Participate in clinical audits and manage clinical risks.

Skills

Clinical Expertise

Leadership

Patient Assessment

Clinical Audit Participation

Risk Management

Education

Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional

Tools

NEWS / Sepsis Screening Tools

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us as a Senior Practitioner (Allied Health Professional or Nurse) within the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC).

The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical expertise to allow patients to be seen, treated, discharged or signposted to alternative service provision. In addition, the post holder will be required to work closely with the multi-disciplinary team in the provision of a high standard of individualised patient care and improving patient experience. You will demonstrate continuing professional development, reflecting individual needs, the needs of the team and organisation.

In our new purpose-built facility, we have additional assessment rooms, a plaster room and eye clinic room to ensure that patients receive the best timely treatment that we can provide. The expansion will support the local population and will ensure that we have the necessary space to provide treatments.

• Work autonomously to assess and appropriately treat patients using nationally recognised tools, for example NEWS / sepsis screening and local guidelines / patient group directions.
• Providing leadership and management to junior members of the team, including supervision, absence management, performance management and recruitment.
• Provide leadership to the team of clinicians on duty ensuring patient needs are prioritised appropriately
• Actively participate in clinical audit, working within the trusts audit guidelines to undertake both national and local audit
• Actively identify, report and act upon any clinical risks
• Contribute to departmental policies, procedures and guidelines
• Identify educational needs of self and others and proactively meet these needs and provide educational opportunities where possible
  
  

Our STAR values Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.

• To work alongside senior management to develop innovative ways of working to benefit the whole health community
• Make clinical decisions and guide others to do so using evidence based knowledge
• Offer health advice and promotion to patients and their families including education on self-management
• Work closely with interdependent departments ( ED / SDEC/ SAU/ paediatrics / GP practices ) promoting professional working relationships
• Duties and responsibilities will be undertaken on a shift and rotation basis covering 17 hours a day, 365 days of the year
  
  

This advert closes on Sunday 20 Apr 2025

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