Walk in Centre Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A large healthcare trust in Liverpool is seeking an experienced Band 6 Nurse Practitioner for its Garston Urgent Treatment Centre. This role involves assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with minor ailments, along with providing high-quality, evidence-based care. The ideal candidate must possess current registration and clinical competencies, and be willing to work flexibly across different sites. The role supports the trust's commitment to exceptional healthcare services given the operational hours of 7.30am to 8.30pm daily across the service.

Qualifications

• Must have clinical competencies in urgent care.
• Willingness to travel across multiple sites.
• Commitment to personal performance planning.

Responsibilities

• Work as an autonomous practitioner in the urgent treatment centre.
• Assess, diagnose, and treat patients with minor ailments.
• Manage service provision in the absence of the Senior Nurse Practitioner.

Skills

Assessment and diagnosis

Holistic patient care

Commitment to clinical supervision

Flexibility and adaptability

Education

Current registration as a Band 6 Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 6 Nurse Practitioner to work in Garston Urgent Treatment Centre. The centre assesses and treats patients with minor illness and injuries of all ages. Our walk-in centres are open 7 days per week 8am-8pm, 365 days per year.

Responsibilities

• You will work within the urgent treatment centre as an autonomous practitioner and be accountable and responsible for the health care management of the patients attending.
• You will have the ability to assess, diagnose and treat or determine the most appropriate pathway for the patient.
• Providing high quality, evidence based care to all patients attending the urgent treatment 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 delivering care accordingly.
• Demonstrating commitment to developing knowledge of a wide range of minor illness and minor ailments by achieving competencies in all areas and working to effectively assess, treat, discharge and refer appropriately to health and social care professionals.
• Responsible for managing service provision in the absence of the Senior Nurse Practitioner.
• 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 must be able to travel across sites.
• This is a seven day service and staff are required to work hours between 7.30am to 8.30pm daily.

Qualifications

• Band 6 Nurse Practitioner with current registration and appropriate clinical competencies.
• Ability and willingness to travel across the Merseycare WIC/UTC footprint to support staffing across sites.
• Commitment to Personal Performance Planning and Clinical Supervision.
• Flexibility to work across all Urgent Treatment Centre & Walk-in Centre services to meet service demand.

About the Employer

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. 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. 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.

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