Job summary
We are recruiting for an Emergency Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Care who share/s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The post holder is responsible for actively managing assessing and coordinating the provision of high-quality care daily to meet agreed UTC (Urgent Treatment Centre) and professional standards.
The post holder will, in conjunction with the other band 7 staff, provide leadership, advise, and support to the patients attending the UTC, the post holder will actively participate in staff appraisal, not only for themselves, but also for others, by setting objectives and learning outcomes in consultation with the Lead and Senior Nurse in working to the requirements of the NHS Plan.
As a Nurse Practitioner the post holder will be responsible for the provision of an autonomous service for UTC patients presenting with certain minor injuries and minor illness the post holder will manager their own caseload referring for a medical opinion only when secondary involvement is necessary.
This post requires the post holder to cover shifts across a 24hour period, seven days per week to ensure that the needs of the service are met. It may be necessary to cover shifts at the QEII UTC / A&E Lister as required.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
To act as an effective role model/expert resource to colleagues in the delivery of nursing care.
To co-ordinate nursing procedures and treatments, set standards and maintain high levels of care.
By effective workforce management/supervision of staff ensure safe documented practice and co-ordinate risk assessments where situations may be detrimental to the health and well-being of an individual.
To report incidents involving patients and members of staff to the Lead or Senior Nurse or Senior manager on-call to ensure where possible corrective action is taken.
Carry continuous responsibility for standards of care.
To ensure that the Trust infection control policies and procedures are followed by all the team.
Act as a role model, demonstrating good practice and ensuring these standards are maintained.
Responsible for ensuring the patient environment is maintained.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse on the NMC registers with extensive experience
- Recognised post registration course relevant to Minor injury/illness
- Evidence of continued professional development in relevant areas of speciality.
Desirable
- Working towards a degree at higher level Leadership qualification.
- Non-Medical prescriber or willingness to undertake the course.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Clinical and managerial experience within the field of Medical nursing at Senior Staff Nurse level.
- Current working knowledge and skills within Experience of caring for patients with medical complaints.
- Current experience working in medicine or equivalent acute area with proven management experience
Desirable
- Experience in change management Experience of nursing within an acute clinical setting.
- Experience in managing a ward/department including management of staff, rota, staff competencies and resources.
Skills
Essential
- Effective leadership ability.
- Ability to deliver multidisciplinary education at department level and to assess
- An effective communicator with attention to detail.
- Leadership to drive quality of care within the multidisciplinary team.
- Organisational skills.
- Evidence of team management skills.
- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others.
- Computer literate
- Ability to perform peripheral cannulation and venepuncture
Desirable
- Understanding of research and audit and a willingness to participate in these within the department.
- Ability to develop and co-ordinate departmental training programmes.
- Flexible individual with an ability to work autonomously
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work with all staff on a multi professional level, demonstrating up to date knowledge of practice development within acute medicine.
- Knowledge of computing skills.
- Evidence of professional development and a proven commitment to acute medicine.
- Broad knowledge acute medicine and the management of medical conditions.
- Good understanding of good quality patient care and patient safety
- Good understanding of safeguarding.
Other requirements
Essential
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse on the NMC registers with extensive experience
- Recognised post registration course relevant to Minor injury/illness
- Evidence of continued professional development in relevant areas of speciality.
Desirable
- Working towards a degree at higher level Leadership qualification.
- Non-Medical prescriber or willingness to undertake the course.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Clinical and managerial experience within the field of Medical nursing at Senior Staff Nurse level.
- Current working knowledge and skills within Experience of caring for patients with medical complaints.
- Current experience working in medicine or equivalent acute area with proven management experience
Desirable
- Experience in change management Experience of nursing within an acute clinical setting.
- Experience in managing a ward/department including management of staff, rota, staff competencies and resources.
Skills
Essential
- Effective leadership ability.
- Ability to deliver multidisciplinary education at department level and to assess
- An effective communicator with attention to detail.
- Leadership to drive quality of care within the multidisciplinary team.
- Organisational skills.
- Evidence of team management skills.
- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others.
- Computer literate
- Ability to perform peripheral cannulation and venepuncture
Desirable
- Understanding of research and audit and a willingness to participate in these within the department.
- Ability to develop and co-ordinate departmental training programmes.
- Flexible individual with an ability to work autonomously
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work with all staff on a multi professional level, demonstrating up to date knowledge of practice development within acute medicine.
- Knowledge of computing skills.
- Evidence of professional development and a proven commitment to acute medicine.
- Broad knowledge acute medicine and the management of medical conditions.
- Good understanding of good quality patient care and patient safety
- Good understanding of safeguarding.
Other requirements
Essential
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
