Senior Urgent Care Practitioner | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust; Skegness; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A respected community health trust in Skegness is seeking a Senior Practitioner. This role involves delivering a crucial 24/7 service to handle minor injuries and illnesses, seeing patients of all ages, and providing clinical leadership. The ideal candidate will have experience in minor illness and injury skills, and thrive in a dynamic team environment. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Learning and development programs

Qualifications

• Dynamic individuals required to work within urgent treatment.
• Ability to manage patients with minor injuries and illnesses.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a 24 hours, 7 days a week service.
• Manage patients of all ages presenting with injury or illness.
• Document consultations timely within patient notes.
• Provide clinical lead and support colleagues.

Skills

Minor illness skills

Minor injury skills

Clinical leadership

Job description

Overview

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• The successful candidate will be required to see patients of all ages presenting with injury or illness complaints and complete the episode of care with treatment or referral onwards.
• Consultations will either take place face to face or via telephone and documented timely and thoroughly within patient notes.
• The post holder will influence, lead, support and motivate colleagues to maintain morale in difficult and challenging situations.
• The post holder will provide clinical lead during a shift by modelling the professional attitudes and behaviours outlined in the LCHS behaviours framework.
• Please see job description for further details.

Additional information

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. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

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 morehttps://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev

The advert closes on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025