Job summary
Urgent Care Practitioner
Location : Lincolnshire Home Visiting Service. Countywide service with start bases at Louth, Sleaford, Spalding and Lincoln
Band 6
Part time considered as well as bank
You should be a registered Health Care Professional, and have experience in the delivery of health and/or social care, ideally in an urgent or emergency care setting.
We are looking to recruit dynamic individuals that will compliment the existing team of multi-professional practitioners.
Main duties of the job
The role will include seeing, treating and management of patients with both minor injury and minor illness.
On occasion you may be required to support other urgent care services such as UTC's, home visiting and the Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) which run 24/7 services. There is daily GP support available remotely or in person as well as well established referral pathways into specialities.
The successful candidate should have standard driving skills.
About us
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be required to see patients presenting with injury or illness complaints and complete the episode of care with treatment or referral onwards.
Consultations will either take place face to face or via telephone and documented timely and thoroughly within patient notes.
The post holder will provide clinical lead during a shift by modelling the professional attitudes and behaviours outlined in the LCHS behaviours framework.
Please see job description for further details.
The service operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and the post holder will be expected to work flexibly.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be required to see patients presenting with injury or illness complaints and complete the episode of care with treatment or referral onwards.
Consultations will either take place face to face or via telephone and documented timely and thoroughly within patient notes.
The post holder will provide clinical lead during a shift by modelling the professional attitudes and behaviours outlined in the LCHS behaviours framework.
Please see job description for further details.
The service operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and the post holder will be expected to work flexibly.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered health care professional with existing registration
- Evidence of degree level study or equivalent
- Level 6/7 History Taking qualification or a willingness to work towards.
- HEI or LCHS approved minor injury or a willingness to work towards
- HEI or LCHS approved minor illness course, or a willingness to work towards
Desirable
- Supervision/mentoring training or qualification
- Leadership/management training or qualification
- Independent prescribing / supplementary prescribing qualification.
- HEI or LCHS approved paediatric course
Experience
Essential
- Substantial consolidated experience of clinical practice in a range of setting including assessing minor illnesses/injuries face to face
- Administration of medication within Patient Group Directives (PGD)
- Experience of working in a multi-professional/multi agency environment
- Experience of coaching and mentoring others
Desirable
- Experience of urgent or emergency care
- Ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of the local clinical governance agenda
- Previous experience of supporting or managing change
- Previous experience working remote consultation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered health care professional with existing registration
- Evidence of degree level study or equivalent
- Level 6/7 History Taking qualification or a willingness to work towards.
- HEI or LCHS approved minor injury or a willingness to work towards
- HEI or LCHS approved minor illness course, or a willingness to work towards
Desirable
- Supervision/mentoring training or qualification
- Leadership/management training or qualification
- Independent prescribing / supplementary prescribing qualification.
- HEI or LCHS approved paediatric course
Experience
Essential
- Substantial consolidated experience of clinical practice in a range of setting including assessing minor illnesses/injuries face to face
- Administration of medication within Patient Group Directives (PGD)
- Experience of working in a multi-professional/multi agency environment
- Experience of coaching and mentoring others
Desirable
- Experience of urgent or emergency care
- Ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of the local clinical governance agenda
- Previous experience of supporting or managing change
- Previous experience working remote consultation
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).
