Job summary
City Health Care Partnership CIC are looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic individuals to join their team of practitioners in the Goole Urgent Treatment Centre. The practitioner will be responsible for the clinical assessment of patients, including history-taking, clinical examination, diagnosis and treatment or the onward referral of patients of all ages. Urgent and primary care patient consultations will be undertaken via face to face, telephone or digital platform consultation. Patient presentations will include undiagnosed undifferentiated illness and minor injuries, acute presentations and at times the exacerbation of long-term conditions. The practitioner will be responsible for ensuring that the highest standard of clinical care is provided for patients across CHCP. The post holder will be a clinician with a range of experience of caring for and treating patients with minor injury and/or minor illness conditions or presentations. The practitioner will act within their professional boundaries and will support the delivery of policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
They will act as a positive role model supporting junior staff whist working flexibly between urgent care and primary care to provide safe clinical expert care. Effective leadership skills will be required and the successful candidate will be one who is motivated, dedicated and enthusiastic. The post holder will work collaboratively with partner organisations to ensure that care is seamless and timely to ensure the best possible patient experience. They will also promote exceptional standards of patient care underpinned by the implementation of evidence-based practice, audit and with regard to current available guidelines and research. There will be an expectation to work across all bases within the Hull and East Riding locality. Working as part of an established clinical workforce, they will benefit from a multi-disciplinary team, and be exposed to an extensive range of services and healthcare settings and locations. They will work alongside our newly developed multi-professional clinical model, be supported by a network of clinicians to share expertise. Ongoing training and development will be supported through in-house competencies and underpinning University courses when available.
For more information regarding the role please contact Rose-Anne Hind, Clinical Manager on 07919545294 or email
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached to this job advert for full details on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Registered 1st level Nurse or Qualified Allied Health Professional
2. Relevant post registration degree
3. University modules completed in minor injuries or illness, or equivalent, APACS (or willingness to undertake)
Desirable
4. Teaching/Mentoring qualification
Knowledge
Essential
5. Comprehensive knowledge of relevant legislation, guidance and local initiatives and issues in relation to unplanned care
6. Working knowledge of multidisciplinary teams
7. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
8. Demonstrate the use of evidence based practice
Desirable
9. Comprehensive working knowledge of medication and interventions used in unplanned care
10. Knowledge of the legal framework surrounding medications prescribed or supplied, including PGDs, PSDs, EOL care pathways etc.
Experience
Essential
11. Substantial experience in professional practice
12. Demonstrate experience of flexible workload management and the ability to meet deadlines
13. Demonstrate experience and competency in supervision and support of others in prioritisation of patient care junior staff, non-registered staff and students
14. Demonstrate experience of utilising a variety of software packages Patient Centre, SystmOne, Clinicom, E-Mail, Excel, PowerPoint and Word
15. Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and working with patients with minor injuries or minor illness presentations
Desirable
16. Previous experience of working in an unplanned care environment / a similar post
17. Previous experience of using PGDs
18. Experience of working within a paper free service/mobile working and use of EPR
19. Experience of the initial management, stabilisation and onward referral of patients who may self-present with more serious/life threatening conditions
20. Demonstrate experience and competency in supervision and support of others in prioritisation of patient care junior staff, non-registered staff and students