About this role
Job summary
Band 7: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Permanent contract
Full time hours (37.5 hours per week)
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.
For additional information please see attached Job description
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 description Job responsibilities
Budget on which the post will impact: Directly and indirectly up to £5 million Staff Number supervised: all staff working within ECC / UTC including junior ENPs, trainee ENPs, See and Treat nurses, Registered Nurses and Medical technicians 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 annumLead in the development of the ECC and UTC service and extension of scope of practice to other areas.For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
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
Desirable
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 Essential
Significant experience (circa >4years) in an acute emergency setting, and some (circa >1year) as a band 6 working in an autonomous practitioner role
Skills and Knowledge Essential
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 Excellent communication skills Critical appraisal skills Organisational skills Inter-personal and team building skills
Desirable
IT skills Research and audit skills
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.
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 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Address Queen Alexandra Hospital
Cosham
Hampshire
PO6 3LY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)