About this role
Job summary
Emergency Practitioner
Division: Medicine & Emergency Care
Care Group: Acute & Emergency Medicine
Band: 7
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/pro rata
Interview date: To be confirmed
We are recruiting for an Emergency Practitioner who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Working for us opens a world of opportunity, if you would like to discuss a career with us, please contact Tracey Croft [email protected] for any other information or to arrange an informal visit.
Main duties of the job
As an experienced Emergency Practitioner you will hold the relevant national qualifications and have experience in delivering high quality autonomous care for patients presenting with a variety of minor injuries and illnesses.
You will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and critical thinking, and provide health promotion advice to patients. Thus, ensuring clinical safety and enhancing patient experience, which requires a wide range of expertise underpinned by competency-based framework, while maintaining high standards of care in accordance with the NMC.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job description Job responsibilities
You will also show a positive commitment to the training and assessment of all nurse learners / junior staff in the clinical areas and facilitate programmes for learners.
The clinically assess patients presenting with a minor injury/illness.
To request and interpret diagnostics such as imaging and blood tests.
To provide diagnosis/differential diagnosis for patients.
To provide emergency treatment and arrange follow up care and treatment as indicated by trust policy.
Provide high quality evidence-based care to all groups and clinical presentations
To keep updated and maintain clinical competences inline with national expectations
To be an independent non-medical prescriber, or willing to work toward this.
Effectively communicate with other multidisciplinary team to provide a patient focused service.
To support the Lead Practitioner, Clinical Lead and Operational Manger in clinical governance by supporting in the response of complaint and incident responses.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Emergency Nursing qualification (199, BSC or MSc) or equivalent from other speciality EP qualification minor injuries and illness training at Level 6 or 7 including IR(ME)R Mentorship / Coaching qualification (or equivalent experience of supervising students) Level 1/2 RCN Emergency Nursing Competencies
Knowledge Essential
Knowledge and experience of standard setting, benchmarking & audit Extensive knowledge of speciality and key priorities
Experience Essential
Extensive experience within speciality or other critical care experience Experience of conducting appraisals, managing performance Extensive experience of Band 6 clinical & managerial roles
Skills Essential
Articulate advanced written & oral communication skills Organisation and management skills Ability to problem-solve and perform clinical activities specific to speciality Competent in all areas of ED clinical work IT skills including use of email and office packages
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Address Emergency Department Medway Hospital
Windmill Road
Gillingham
ME7 5NY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.medway.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)