Urgent Care Emergency Practitioner

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust; Gosport; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Gosport is seeking an Emergency Practitioner to join their team. The role includes autonomous patient assessment and management of minor injuries and illnesses. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in acute emergency settings and be registered healthcare professionals. The position offers opportunities for professional development and leadership within urgent care services.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an acute emergency setting (circa >4 years).
• Evidence of developing practice and continual learning.
• Articulate and knowledgeable in current health issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality patient assessment and management of minor injury and illness.
• Practice autonomously, managing workload in ECC and UTC.
• Lead in the development of the ECC and UTC service.

Skills

Ability to work autonomously and within a team

Advanced clinical decision making skills

Inter-personal and team building skills

Research and audit skills

Education

Healthcare Professional registered with either the NMC, the HCPC or the GPhC

Completion of an EP Course to degree level or equivalent

ENB 998 or C&G 7307 or equivalent teaching/mentorship course

Tools

Advanced X-ray interpretation

ECG interpretation

I.V Drug therapy

Job description

Go back Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Urgent Care Emergency Practitioner

The closing date is 19 October 2025

Urgent care are delighted to invite applications to the role of Emergency practitioner. It is a role based both at Queen Alexandra Hospital (QAH) and Gosport War Memorial Hospital (GWMH)and you will be expected to work on either site.

Main duties of the job

You would join our dynamic practitioner led teams in the urgent care departments at QAH and Gosport UTC as a specialist and clinical expert who is expected to provide high quality patient assessment and management of minor injury and illness.

You will practice autonomously, encompassing the skills of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, discharge and referral of patients, presenting to Urgent Care with undifferentiated injury and illness.

To ensure that you are sufficiently prepared to develop your knowledge, skills, and behaviours to successfully work with us at an enhanced practice level, we expect you to have a sound depth and breadth of clinical experience across the UEC landscape.

About us

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Job responsibilities

A lead specialist and clinical expert who is expected to provide high quality patient assessment and management of minor injury and illness within the ED, ECC and UTC

Accountable for own professional actions in the assessment and management of minor injury and illness.

Practice autonomously, encompassing the skills of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, discharge and referral of patients, presenting to the Adult Urgent Care in of the ED, ECC and the MIU with undifferentiated injury and illness.

Manage the ECC/UTC on a day-to-day basis

Manage own workload within ECC and the UTC, working autonomously to assess, manage, refer and discharge adult and paediatric patients presenting with undifferentiated minor injury and illness. The UTC currently sees >45,000 patients per annum and the ECC primarily assesses in excess of 20,000 patients per annum

Lead in the development of the ECC and UTC service and extension of scope of practice to other areas.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Healthcare Professional registered with either the NMC, the HCPC or the GPhC
• Completion of an EP Course to degree level or equivalent, or, an appropriate advanced Allied Health professional program of study
• ENB 998 or C&G 7307 or equivalent teaching/mentorship course
• Evidence of highly developed specialist knowledge in Minor Injuries underpinned by theory and evidence
• Degree or willing to work towards
• Evidence of developing practice and continual learning
• Evidence of teaching
• Evidence of research and audit
• Articulate and knowledgeable in current health issues
• ALS provider

Experience

• Significant experience (circa >4years) in an acute emergency setting, and some (circa >1year) as a band 6 working in an autonomous practitioner role

Skills & Knowledge

• Ability to work autonomously and within a team
• Advanced roles and procedures- advanced X-ray interpretation, ECG interpretation, biochemical requesting and interpretation, venepuncture, cannulation, I.V Drug therapy, plastering, advanced suturing skills, minor invasive operative procedures, manipulation of limbs under LA, Male and Female catheterisation
• Advanced clinical decision making skills
• Critical appraisal skills
• Inter-personal and team building skills
• Research and audit skills
• Ability to act and serve and take the lead on special interest groups/committees

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

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