Job summary
As part of a multidisciplinary team the post holder will work autonomously to provide a high-quality service to patients attending urgent care services this includes all ambulatory areas which see / treat patients presenting with Minor Injury and Minor Illness.
Working as an emergency practitioner with a high degree of autonomy, the post holder will manager undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor injuries and minor illness, suing advanced clinical skills within their own sphere of competence.
Practitioners will aim to enable individuals to maintain or regain independence or ensure a plan is in place for them to prevent unnecessary hospital admission.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that patients in the Minor Injury and Minor Illness Unit are seen and assessed with treatment plan implemented within the agreed timescales and appropriately processed through the correct Emergency Department (ED) pathway ensuring local referral and escalation pathways are adhered to.
Main duties of the job
*Provide highly specialist care and advise to patients presenting with minor injury or minor illness in unscheduled care settings from assessment of presenting condition through to diagnosis, initial treatment, monitoring of care and treatment and discharge including the administration of medication within agreed clinical guidelines, Non-Medical Prescribing practice patient group directives (PGD's) and protocols.
*Works to promote and safeguard the interests and wellbeing of patients and colleagues recognises and responds when an adult / child might be at risk from abuse understanding of limits and escalating and referring to others, when necessary, i.e.: Safeguarding services.
*Always acts as a patient advocate to ensure patient focused approach to care and maintaining patient dignity and inclusiveness.
*Working closely with all staff members to ensure prompt and effective patient assessment and treatment is undertaken, and decisions are swiftly acted on.
*Actively encourage and enable multi-disciplinary approached to care.
*The post requires the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines / targets ensuring patient care is delivered in timely manner and to national targets.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing & Midwifery Council Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by evidence of post graduate academic courses, short course and development of clinical competencies in practice evidenced in the following areas:
- *Minor Injury Management (Level 6/7)
- *Consultation Skills
- *Physical Examination Skills
- *IRMER (Ionising Radiation Medical Exposure Regulation)
- *Interpretation of Images (Red Dot course)
- *Adult / Child Life Support Courses
- *PGD Training / practice aligned to Trust procedures
- *Minor Illness Management (Level 6/7) or Non-Medical Prescriber with willingness to undertake the post graduate element not completed
- Plus further specialist training to masters equivalent level.
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience working as a Band 6 or equivalent in autonomous assessment of minor injury who has a post graduate qualification completed either Minor Illness or Non-Medical Prescribing.
- Demonstrable ability / experience in working in a multi professional approach to health care delivery and can demonstrate appreciation for complexities of patient access to primary /secondary and voluntary care settings.
- Demonstrable understanding of the NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care -- Emergency Practitioner Framework 2023.
- Can demonstrate understanding of the National NHS Emergency Care target and the relationship with the role.
- Demonstrable scope of extended practice relevant to the role and can evidence post graduate training in skills related to the role including:
- *Plastering
- *Suturing
- *Wound management / assessment
- Experience in the supervision, mentoring and assessment of learners and junior staff.
- Experience in leading and managing teams working in a health / care relating practice setting.
- Experience in participating in the development and updating of policy and procedure.
- Experience in supporting service change and improvement in a health and care related practice setting.
- Demonstrable understanding of UK NHS frameworks and approaches to Emergency and Urgent Care and its application across NHS services.
Desirable
- Prior experience working as an Emergency Practitioner at Band 6 or Equivalent in an urgent / emergency care practice setting as an autonomous practitioner.
- Experience in the recruitment and selection of staff
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Can manage time effectively, priorities own workload and that of others and work under pressure to agreed standards of care.
- Able to work effectively with a variety of people to ensure timely patient care and treatment as part of a multi -disciplinary team.
- Well-developed clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and can evidence this in relation to clinical practice.
- Able to communicate complex and sensitive information to individuals and groups.
- Strong well-developed influencing and negotiating skills.
- Advanced facilitation and clinical leadership skills.
- Excellent verbal communication / negotiating skills to include face to face and telephone Ability to deal with conflicting demands.
- Empathy with patients/relatives to record and follow up more complex queries e.g. patient complaints.
- Self-motivated - able to work independently to prioritise and manage own workload.
- Ability to use judgement and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to prioritise important tasks to tight.
- deadlines whilst ensuring quality standards are maintained.
- Tactful and able to build good working relations.
- Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously.
- Good IT skills ability to record information electronically.
- Being able to work a flexible shift pattern to cover out of hours, nights, weekend, and public holidays across 7 days a week.
- Ability to travel across all UHB sites and to external sites if required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing & Midwifery Council Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by evidence of post graduate academic courses, short course and development of clinical competencies in practice evidenced in the following areas:
- *Minor Injury Management (Level 6/7)
- *Consultation Skills
- *Physical Examination Skills
- *IRMER (Ionising Radiation Medical Exposure Regulation)
- *Interpretation of Images (Red Dot course)
- *Adult / Child Life Support Courses
- *PGD Training / practice aligned to Trust procedures
- *Minor Illness Management (Level 6/7) or Non-Medical Prescriber with willingness to undertake the post graduate element not completed
- Plus further specialist training to masters equivalent level.
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience working as a Band 6 or equivalent in autonomous assessment of minor injury who has a post graduate qualification completed either Minor Illness or Non-Medical Prescribing.
- Demonstrable ability / experience in working in a multi professional approach to health care delivery and can demonstrate appreciation for complexities of patient access to primary /secondary and voluntary care settings.
- Demonstrable understanding of the NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care -- Emergency Practitioner Framework 2023.
- Can demonstrate understanding of the National NHS Emergency Care target and the relationship with the role.
- Demonstrable scope of extended practice relevant to the role and can evidence post graduate training in skills related to the role including:
- *Plastering
- *Suturing
- *Wound management / assessment
- Experience in the supervision, mentoring and assessment of learners and junior staff.
- Experience in leading and managing teams working in a health / care relating practice setting.
- Experience in participating in the development and updating of policy and procedure.
- Experience in supporting service change and improvement in a health and care related practice setting.
- Demonstrable understanding of UK NHS frameworks and approaches to Emergency and Urgent Care and its application across NHS services.
Desirable
- Prior experience working as an Emergency Practitioner at Band 6 or Equivalent in an urgent / emergency care practice setting as an autonomous practitioner.
- Experience in the recruitment and selection of staff
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Can manage time effectively, priorities own workload and that of others and work under pressure to agreed standards of care.
- Able to work effectively with a variety of people to ensure timely patient care and treatment as part of a multi -disciplinary team.
- Well-developed clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and can evidence this in relation to clinical practice.
- Able to communicate complex and sensitive information to individuals and groups.
- Strong well-developed influencing and negotiating skills.
- Advanced facilitation and clinical leadership skills.
- Excellent verbal communication / negotiating skills to include face to face and telephone Ability to deal with conflicting demands.
- Empathy with patients/relatives to record and follow up more complex queries e.g. patient complaints.
- Self-motivated - able to work independently to prioritise and manage own workload.
- Ability to use judgement and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to prioritise important tasks to tight.
- deadlines whilst ensuring quality standards are maintained.
- Tactful and able to build good working relations.
- Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously.
- Good IT skills ability to record information electronically.
- Being able to work a flexible shift pattern to cover out of hours, nights, weekend, and public holidays across 7 days a week.
- Ability to travel across all UHB sites and to external sites if required.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
