Urgent Care Nurse - Urgent Treatment Centre
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT
Are you a nurse interested in working in an Urgent Treatment Centre?
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse practitioner to work within the Ilkeston and Ripley Urgent Treatment Centres.
This role is advertised as a band 6 but dependent on experience and skills, there may be a possibility to appoint to a band 5 who will then develop to a band 6 once local competencies and MSc module in minor injuries is successfully completed.
There are full and part time posts available.
Main duties of the job
The units are nurse and Advanced Clinical Practitioner led and are operational seven days a week, from 08.00 to 20:00hrs.
As a registered, accountable clinical employee, you will be expected to possess a relevant high level of clinical knowledge and skills. This will enable you to assess, examine and treat patients safely and appropriately from the whole age spectrum that attend the UTCs with a variety of minor injury and minor illness presentations.
You will need to effectively engage with patients, peer groups, and service users in all elements of your role, leading by example and promoting a supportive and caring culture. This will require an inclusive, transparent, open approach to your role, whereby you are happy to be accountable to others and to go the extra mile when required.
You must be flexible, enthusiastic, motivated and demonstrate effective interpersonal skills.
About us
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* ENP accredited qualification or equivalent autonomous practitioner qualification or working towards
* Paediatric experience and expected to work towards an accredited qualification within 3-5 years
* Experience in a minor injuries/urgent care setting
* Non-medical prescriber
* Teaching experience
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience in a minor injuries/urgent care setting
* Willingness and ability to work flexibly
* Teaching qualification
* Non-Medical prescriber
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.
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