Senior Urgent Care Practitioner

Job summary
Sirona Care & Health operates multi-professionally led, place-based urgent care services across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. South Bristol Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) provides same-day urgent care for patients presenting with minor injuries and minor illnesses. The service is open 8.00am to 8.00pm, seven days a week.

We are currently recruiting for a motivated Band 7 Urgent Care Practitioner (ECP/ENP/Specialist Paramedic/Extended Scope Physiotherapist) to join our team at South Bristol UTC.

In this role, you will undertake the comprehensive assessment, management, and referral of a diverse range of service users presenting with urgent injury and illness. The position also includes supporting junior team members, conducting remote consultations, providing shift leadership, and contributing to service improvement through audit and project work.

We offer access to regular internal training and a range of external higher education development opportunities, including Independent Prescribing courses.

We are a friendly, experienced, and supportive team seeking a reliable, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is committed to delivering high-quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Autonomously provide patient centred care, including assessment, shared care planning and appropriate referral of service users.
• Undertake a variety of consultation types including face to face, telephone and video.
• Utilise advanced clinical examination skills to support diagnostic reasoning and patient centred care plans.
• Utilise Patient Group Directions or Independent Prescribing (desirable) to appropriately manage patient presentations.
• Undertake shift leadership role to ensure the smooth running of the department. This will include prioritisation of workload based around available resources, support for the clinical and non-clinical teams, acting to ensure the safety of patients and team members and liaising with management and external partners.
• Support unit safety by effectively carrying out initial assessment and prioritisation of presenting patients.
• Provide clinical expertise and advice to colleagues and junior practitioners. This will include formal mentoring of junior colleagues and healthcare students.
• Support the UTC management and colleagues to deliver robust clinical governance and service improvement programs.
• Use of your skills, knowledge, and experience to deliver safe and effective care to our service users

About us
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health - England's largest provider of Adult's and Children's Community Services and we'd love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days' annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme - just a glimpse of the benefits you'll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. 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 aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different - we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.

Job responsibilities
Please review attached Job Description for details of service, role purpose and key responsibilities.

If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.

Qualifications
Essential

• Professional Registration with NMC or HCPC
• Relevant undergraduate qualification
• Postgraduate qualification - Urgent or Emergency Practitioner (or similar)

Desirable

• Independent Prescribing qualification
• Mentorship/Supporting Students in Practice qualification

Experience
Essential

• Significant experience in a Urgent or Emergency health care setting (including Primary care)
• Experience working as an autonomous practitioner in a Urgent or Emergency health care setting (including Primary Care)
• Experience of clinical leadership
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of minor injuries and illnesses with a wide range of approaches to autonomous management of patients
• Demonstrate ability to work with complex clients and situations and a clear ability to problem-solve

Desirable

• Up to date IRMER qualification
• Ability to interpret x-ray films
• Experience or qualification relevant to remote clinical assessment
• Experience using Patient Group Directions (if not IP qualified)
• Experience undertaking advanced wound care, limb/joint reduction and immobilisation

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).