Emergency Clinical Practitioner

Job Introduction

Are you a dedicated clinician with advanced practice skills and a passion for providing high-quality care? Join our fantastic multidisciplinary team at Paulton Hospital's Minor Injuries Unit (MIU).

As part of our practitioner-led service, you'll work alongside Nurses, Paramedics, and support staff to deliver minor injury and illness care to the local community. Collaborating with key partners such as the Royal United Hospital Bath (RUH), BaNES Enhanced Medical Services (BEMS), and HCRG Care Group, you'll play a vital role in bridging the gap between primary and secondary care. You'll have the opportunity to provide autonomous, evidence-based care while developing your skills through access to the UWE Bristol Advanced Clinical Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship.

Whether you're an experienced Band 7 practitioner or a Band 6 developing your expertise, we're committed to supporting your professional growth in this essential role.

This is a part-time role based at Paulton Memorial Hospital Minor Injuries Unit, where the service operates from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.

Main Responsibility

1. Provide assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of adults and children presenting with minor injuries or illnesses.
2. Prescribe, supply, and administer medications and treatments autonomously, adhering to agreed protocols.
3. Order and interpret diagnostic tests to support clinical decision-making.
4. Liaise with multi-professional teams, including GPs and secondary care providers, to deliver seamless and collaborative patient care.
5. Communicate effectively with patients, families, and carers, ensuring empathy, clarity, and understanding in all interactions.
6. Support and supervise MIU staff, ensuring clinical competence and promoting a positive learning environment.
7. Manage day-to-day operations in the absence of the clinical lead, including overseeing safe staffing levels.
8. Engage in professional development, clinical audits, and research to maintain evidence-based practice and high-quality care standards.
9. Contribute to service improvement initiatives, ensuring compliance with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards.
10. Ensure the safe handling of medicines and demonstrate flexibility in responding to the dynamic demands of the MIU.

The Ideal Candidate

Education & Qualifications:

1. Relevant degree qualification.
2. Current professional registration (e.g., Registered Health Care Professional, with or without additional qualification as a Registered Children's Nurse).
3. Completed non-medical prescribing course.
4. Qualified Emergency Practitioner in illness and injury.
5. Relevant experience and qualifications in minor injuries or emergency care (e.g., APiCA).

Knowledge & Experience:

1. Minimum of 5 years post-registration experience in emergency or urgent care settings.
2. Experience in acute and/or community healthcare settings.

Skills & Abilities:

1. Ability to assess, prioritise, and coordinate care for individuals with complex needs.
2. Strong decision-making, delegation, and autonomous working abilities.
3. Effective under pressure and able to meet deadlines.
4. Willingness to contribute to staff training and development.
5. Strong problem-solving and goal-setting skills.

Package Description

As an Emergency Clinical Practitioner, you'll be part of our valued team at Paulton Memorial Hospital.

You will feel valued as an Emergency Clinical Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

1. Band 7 salary of £46,148 - £52,809 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
2. Free tea and coffee at your base location
3. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
4. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
5. Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
6. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
7. An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
8. The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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