The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Emergency Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 30 May 2025

Job summary

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Emergency Nurse Practitioner team, at Mid Yorkshire teaching Trust. We are seeking to appoint and enthusiastic and highly motivated qualified Emergency Nurse Practitioner. The successful applicant would be expected to have the flexibility to work across our three sites. Including 2 emergency department and 1 Urgent Treatment centre. Our dynamic, caring and highly-motivated team are looking for and Emergency Nurse Practitioner who can communicate clearly and emphatically with patients and relatives as well as other team members, you must be able to work as an autonomous practitioner in the management of minor injuries, and be expected to cover the full compliment of the rota.

Main duties of the job

The primary aim of the role is to ensure that a high quality service is delivered to patients and their carers in a timely manner. The role is multidimensional and requires the post holder to integrate and fulfil all the identified dimensions. As a Registered Nurse, all activities provide opportunities for acting as a role model for staff. The Emergency Nurse Practitioner will act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with nursing, medical and allied health professionals to assess individual patient needs, initiate investigations, determine a differential diagnosis and initiate appropriate holistic evidence based treatment and care. In accordance with Departmental ENP Guidelines.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Date posted

23 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

000343

Job locations

Pinderfields Hospital

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key requirements

Being holistic in the assessment, diagnosis, initiation of appropriate treatments and independently discharge / refer patients who attend the ED over the age of 1 year. With minor injuries and illness that are specified in the ENP Guidelines.

Completing comprehensive documentation of patients ensuring all necessary investigations are ordered and results available.

Provision of specialist and advanced skills in patient assessment and scope of practice across a broad range of specialities including history taking and physical examination of patients presenting to the ED with injury and illnesses.

Ordering and interpreting appropriate investigations adhering to Trust policies and within own limitations in order to provide differential diagnosis and treatment options

Undertaking appropriate nursing duties to provide/organise essential treatment for patients referred to the different Emergency Departments, working within own boundaries and accepting own limitations

Provide assessment of the acutely injured patient and following appropriate investigation, instigate and carry out a treatment plan

Recognising when there is a need for escalation of treatment for medical attention and ensuring the appropriate Health Care Professional is called to facilitate optimum patient care

Maintaining accurate, contemporaneous and timely care records

Be responsible for the discharge of patients, compiling discharge plans and prescribing medications to take home.

Providing nurse led discharge

Prescribing, administering and dispensing appropriate medications for the management and treatment of patients’ symptoms within own limitations and boundaries

Where appropriate, reviewing patients medication and ensuring adherence to Trust guidelines e.g., Antibiotic policy

Providing support to the multidisciplinary team to enable staff and patients to make better choices for their health and that of their families

Working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary staff in planning care for their patients

Exercising clinical judgement and articulating why clinical decisions were made

Respecting and promoting dignity, choice and autonomy of patients/families and carers

The above section is not exhaustive and incorporates all elements of the ENP guidance document.