Specialist Emergency Practitioner

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust as a Specialist Emergency Practitioner, where you will provide critical care in a dynamic environment. You’ll assess and treat patients in Urgent Care settings and further develop your skills through a supportive training program. This role offers flexibility in hours and significant opportunities for personal growth, making it ideal for passionate healthcare professionals dedicated to patient-centered care.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Access to tailored learning and development

NHS Discount

Competitive pension scheme

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Significant experience at Band 6 equivalent.
• Experience of mentoring students.
• Competent in using Evidence Based Practice.

Responsibilities

• Treat and manage patients with minor injuries and illnesses.
• Conduct telephone triage and home visits as needed.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team, promoting teamwork and support.

Skills

Patient assessment

Decision-making

Interpersonal skills

Mentoring

Education

Registered General Nurse or Allied Healthcare Professional

Post Registration Qualification in Minor Illness and Injury (Level 6/7)

Mentorship qualification or equivalent

Job description

Are you an experienced Emergency Practitioner (either Nurse or Paramedic), with a passion for delivering exceptional patient focused care?

Are you a specialist in minor injury and/or minor illness management?

Do you have level 7 minor injury/illness qualifications with proven experience at band 6 in an urgent care centre/MIU/Emergency Department

Are you looking for a change?

Would you like the opportunity to extend your Advanced practice skills?

We could be for you !

Main duties of the job

Our Minor Injury Units treat approximately 4000 patients across the Service per month, making a real difference, providing care closer to home and avoiding admission to hospital wherever possible and appropriate.

Our GP Out of Hours services supports the management of acute primary care illness when the GP surgeries are closed. The role includes telephone triage, base visit and home visiting.

As a Specialist Emergency Practitioner, you will be a Registered Nurse or Paramedic with the skills to autonomously assess and treat patients in the Urgent Care bases. You will have excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills along with a passion to provide patient centred care.

You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team who pride themselves on their excellent team working and support of each other whilst treating a diverse range of conditions which will give you the opportunity to extend your advanced skills in injury and illness

We will encourage you to further develop your skills through a supportive programme of training and education including Non-Medical prescribing and L7 leadership with a tailored development plan and competence portfolio of practice.

You will be working across a shift system which includes weekends, bank holidays and nights. We are happy to consider full or part time hours both on a permanent basis.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:“Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience at Band 6 equivalent in autonomous assessment of minor illness and injury presentations
• Experience of mentoring students
• Competent in using Evidence Based Practice

Desirable criteria

• Experience working in MDT

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered General Nurse or Allied Healthcare Professional
• Post Registration Qualification in both Minor Illness and Injury (Level 6/7)
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Independent prescribing

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Motivational skills
• Committed to personal growth

Desirable criteria

• Able to facilitate professional growth in colleagues

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.

Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.

We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.

Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing