Senior Practitioner - Utc

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Senior UTC Practitioner to join the Urgent Treatment Centres at Blaydon and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. You will lead urgent care, review and treat patients, and mentor junior colleagues to develop skills.

The role includes acting as Shift Lead on both sites, coordinating front desk streaming to direct patients to appropriate care and maintaining high standards of clinical care within the UTC setting.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or allied health professional with UK registration.
• Degree in nursing or equivalent.
• Clinical skills course and nurse competencies.
• Advanced / Immediate life support.
• Paediatric clinical skills and competencies.
• Non medical prescribing.
• Teaching qualification or mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, evidence based and patient focused care in UTC and related urgent care areas.
• Use national and local guidelines to support safe decision making.
• Have a sound grounding in history taking and clinical skills.
• Order relevant investigations and collaborate with senior staff.
• Interpret clinical investigations (e.g., x-rays) and act on findings.
• Contribute to clinical governance and ongoing professional development.
• Prescribe medications as appropriate to treatment plans.
• Work flexibly across ED and UTCs on both sites.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

IT skills

Flexible working

Education

Nursing registration

Nursing degree

Clinical skills course

ALS/ILS

Paediatric skills

Non-medical prescribing

Teaching/Mentorship

Master's level (desirable)

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity is available for a Senior UTC Practitioner to join the Gateshead Urgent Care Service working between the Urgent Treatment Centres at 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 join the team working in our Urgent Treatment Centres, joining the team as a senior practitioner with responsibility for reviewing and treating patients in the urgent care setting (including both minor injury and minor illness). This role will also support junior colleagues in both formal and informal development and mentorship. This role is responsible for acting as 'Shift Lead' in both QEH and Blaydon UTCs, acting as a key point of contact on shift. The role also has responsibility for front desk streaming at QEH to support patients to receive healthcare in the most appropriate setting for their complaint.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, evidence based and patient focused care and treatment planning, primarily in the UTC setting but also throughout all areas of Urgent and Emergency Care and be accountable for this.
• Use national and local guidelines to support safe decision making and practice.
• Have a sound grounding in history taking, clinical skills and knowledge of illness/injuries.
• Order relevant investigations based on clinical review of the patient and collaboration with senior members of the medical and MDT where appropriate.
• Be able to interpret clinical investigations such as x-rays and act on these findings appropriately.
• To continuously improve clinical care standards in line with the clinical governance framework.
• To ensure ongoing clinical and professional development.
• Be able to prescribe medications appropriate to treatment plans.
• To be aware of own scope of practice and work within that appropriately while continuing to develop own knowledge and skills safely through education and competency-based assessment.
• To work flexibly across ED and UTCs where required on both sites.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse or Equivalent Qualification for allied health professionals
• Degree in Nursing or equivalent for allied health professional
• Clinical skills course and nurse competencies
• Advanced / Immediate life support
• Paediatric Clinical skills and competencies attained
• Non Medical prescribing
• Teaching Qualification / Mentorship

Desirable

• Evidence of study at level 7 (Master's Level)

Experience

Essential

• Recent experience in and acute setting
• Autonomous working
• Portfolio of evidence of continued professional development
• Experience of leading clinical development
• Experience of managing change
• Experience of working in a \"first contact role\" eg Primary care / ED

Desirable

• Multi-disciplinary / multi-agency working
• Ability to undertake research
• Ability to undertake audit
• Previous experience of working as a nurse practitioner or working in a acute setting

Skills / Attributes / Knowledge

Essential

• Communication and Organisational skills
• Leadership skills
• Innovator
• Flexible working
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve tight deadlines in a complex and changing environment
• Being able to organise and prioritise work load
• Clear, concise record keeping / reporting skills
• Demonstrate and understand of child protection skills
• IT skills

Desirable

• Skills in an acute setting

Physical requirements

Essential

• Ability to move and handle safely without causing harm to themselves or others

Desirable

• Have been trained in moving and handling procedures

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).