Senior Urgent Care Practitioner

Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group; Skegness; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust in Skegness is seeking a Senior Practitioner to join the Skegness Urgent Treatment Centre, delivering face-to-face consultations and contributing to a 24/7 service for the local community.

You will bring minor illness and minor injury skills to assess, treat, manage, discharge or refer patients of all ages, with GP support available remotely or in person and established referral pathways to specialist services.

Qualifications

• Experience in urgent care settings.
• Ability to deliver 24/7 service.
• Experience with minor illness and minor injury management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a 24/7 service to the Skegness community.
• See, treat, manage, discharge and/or refer patients of all ages to LCHS or partner services.
• Support other urgent care services (UTCs), home visiting and CAS with GP support available remotely or in person.

Skills

Minor illness skills

Minor injury skills

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Practitioner to work within Skegness Urgent Treatment Centre, delivering face to face consultations.

We are looking to recruit dynamic individuals with minor illness and minor injury skills that will also compliment the existing team of Senior and Urgent Care Practitioners, ACPs and HCSW's

Main duties will be to deliver a 24 hours, 7 day weeks service to the Skegness community. The service will include see, treat and management of patients with both minor injury and minor illness.

See, treat, manage , discharge and or refer patients of all age ranges to other LCHS services or partner services across Lincolnshire

On occasion you may be required to support other urgent care services such as UTC's, home visiting and the Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) which run 24/7 services. There is daily GP support available remotely or in person as well as well-established referral pathways into specialities.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives.

Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme.

Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kartik Kippy Job title: Clinical Team Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07716080810