Walk in Centre Nurse Practitioner

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a skilled Band 6 Nurse Practitioner to join a forward-thinking healthcare provider. In this role, you will work autonomously in a busy walk-in centre, providing high-quality care to patients with minor ailments. Your expertise in clinical decision-making and ability to assess and treat patients will be vital in ensuring effective healthcare delivery. Join a dedicated team committed to innovation and excellence in patient care, where your contributions will directly impact the health and well-being of the community.

Qualifications

• Registered Practitioner with current NMC/AHP registration required.
• Experience in relevant roles such as Primary Care or Walk In Centre.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, and treat minor illnesses and injuries.
• Provide high quality, evidence-based care in a walk-in centre.
• Manage service provision in the absence of senior staff.

Skills

Clinical Decision Making

Patient Assessment

Leadership Skills

Basic IT Literacy

Empathy

Clinical Supervision

Education

NMC/AHP Registration

Mentorship Qualification

Non-medical Prescribing

Job description

Main area Walk in Centres Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: To work across Knowsley Walk in Centres within Merseycare Hours

• Full time
• Other

37.5 hours per week (Working shifts from 7.30am - 9pm, 7 days a week) Job ref 350-COM7175038

Site Huyton walk in centre Town Huyton, Merseyside Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 11/05/2025 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 6 Nurse Practitioner to work in Merseycare's Knowsley Walk in Centres.

The centres assess and treat patients with minor illness and injuries of all ages.

Our walk in centres are open 7 days per week.

You will work within the walk in centre as an autonomous practitioner and be accountable and responsible for the health care management of the patients attending.

Applicants will need to be flexible; Able to travel and work across the Merseycare WIC/UTC footprint to ensure that all of our sites are adequately staffed and supported.

Main duties of the job

You will have the ability to assess, diagnose and treat or determine the most appropriate pathway for the patient.

You will do this by:

Providing high quality, evidence based care to all patients attending the Walk-in Centre.

Working autonomously and providing holistic assessment, interpretation of results, treatment, advice and health promotion resulting in discharge or referral of patients as appropriate.

Receiving patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions in an unpredictable environment and deliver care accordingly.

Demonstrating commitment to developing knowledge of a wide range of minor illness and minor ailments; by achieving competencies in all areas of Walk-in Centre work to effectively assess, treat, discharge and refer appropriately to health and social care professionals.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Assess, diagnose and treat minor illness and/or ailment or determine the most appropriate pathway for the patient.

- Responsibility for managing service provision in the absence of the Senior Nurse Practitioner

- Commitment to the Personal Performance Planning process and Clinical Supervision.

- Working flexibly to support all Urgent Treatment Centres & Walk-in Centres to ensure capacity meets service demand.

- The post holder has an obligation to work across all Walk-in Centre services and so will need to be able to travel.

- The post holder will be required to work flexibly across the working week. This is a seven day service and staff are required to work hours between, from and to 7.30am to 9pm daily.

Please refer to full job description

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Practitioner with current NMC/AHP registration
• Mentorship qualification/Supervisor Qualification or experience of delivering clinical supervision
• Additional qualifications/evidence of CPD: Clinical Exam, Clinical Diagnostics etc
• Non medical prescribing Supplementary/Independent

Knowledge / Experience

• Experience of prioritising and using own initiative in clinical decision making
• Experience of working in a relevant role e.g. Children's Walk In Centre, Primary Care, A/E
• Experience of working in a relevant role e.g. Walk In Centre, Primary Care, A/E
• Experience of communicating across professional and organisational boundaries
• Professional experience in paediatric nursing
• Experience of taking charge of a shift/department

Skills

• Demonstrate commitment to teaching others
• Demonstrate ability to identify training and development needs of self and others
• Demonstrates ability to work under pressure and use own initiative
• Demonstrable leadership skills
• Demonstrable basic IT literacy
• Demonstrates flexibility to work across all Walk in Centres and all shift patterns supporting a positive approach to team working
• Empathic and understanding nature
• Committed to change management opportunities to ensure the service continually develops in line with local and national initiatives
• Demonstrate commitment to Clinical Supervision
• Evidence of ongoing personal/professional development
• Evidence of CPD/ short courses in suturing, x-ray referral, wound management and venepuncture
• In depth perception of the Nurse Practitioner role including clinical autonomy, accountability and responsibility in view of NMC guidelines
• Understanding of current legislation in relation to Walk in Centres and the Clinical Governance agenda including risk management
• Proven clinical competency in injury and illness assessment clinical
• Examination, history taking, diagnosis and treatment
• Evidence of participating in Nurse development agenda’s

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet2

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Sarah Herlihy Job title Walk in Centre Team Lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07766 510 513 Additional information

Should further information be required please contact Team Lead - Sarah Herlihy at [e-mail]