Urgent Care Practitioner

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities (All Practitioners)

Assess, diagnose, treat, and advise patients presenting with a wide range of minor illness and injury presentations, ensuring safe, evidence-based, and person-centred care in line with individual scope of practice.

Perform relevant clinical procedures, including collection of pathology samples and minor interventions, as trained and competent.

Ensure clinical practice remains safe, within scope, and escalated appropriately when limits are reached.

Maintain up-to-date and accurate clinical records and documentation, using appropriate systems.

Keep up to date with mandatory training.

Contribute to patient flow by supporting appropriate streaming, clinical prioritisation, and safe throughput.

Band 8a practitioners may also:

Take a lead in mentoring and coaching team members across the service.

Lead on clinical audits, service evaluation, and implementation of new clinical protocols or guidelines.

Assist in recruitment, appraisal processes, and ongoing professional development within the team.

Provide clinical advice to colleagues during complex or uncertain presentations.

Act as a shift lead or senior decision-maker, maintaining oversight of safety, flow, and clinical escalation (once ready).

Support team learning by contributing to debriefs, case discussions, or reflective learning.

Promote adherence to clinical governance, safety standards, and best practice.

Management and Leadership

Essential

• The ability to demonstrate understanding of the current issues affecting Primary Care services.
• Evidence of commitment to support, develop and manage change.
• Evidence of good organisational and leadership skills.
• Evidence of the ability to manage and motivate a team.

Desirable

• Experience of recruiting and selecting staff.
• Experience of developing clinical policies and procedures.
• Audit experience.

Communication

Essential

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with difficult situations.

Teamwork

Essential

• Commitment and experience of multi-disciplinary team approach to care.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team.

Teaching

Essential

• Commitment to own personal development.
• Evidence of training and development of staff and teams.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Paramedic/Paediatric or Health Care worker with professional registration.
• Clinical experience within an unscheduled / scheduled/urgent / primary or secondary care setting.
• Ability to assess and treat those with minor illness.
• Can demonstrate clinical assessment qualifications.

Desirable

• Teaching qualification.
• Mentorship Qualification.
• Non-medical prescribing v300 qualification.
• Minor injury exposure or willingness to learn.
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification.
• Paediatric exposure.

Experience

Essential

• 5 years post registration experience.
• Able to demonstrate autonomous practice.
• Well-developed and honed clinical skills and proven ability to work under pressure and meet targets.
• Health Promotion experience.
• IT and computer literate.

Desirable

• Experience of Adastra clinical computer system.
• Experience of EMIS Clinical computer system.
• Experience in independent X-ray Interpretation.
• Teaching Experience.
• Experience of managing a team and individuals.

Personal

Essential

• A good sickness and absence record.
• A clear DBS.
• Excellent team leadership qualities.
• Must have a positive can do attitude, with an ability to deal with stressful situations.
• Willing to work unsocial hours across multiple sites.
• Proven flexibly in working patterns, including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to travel between sites to undertake split site duties if the need occurs.

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).