Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust
The post holder will clinically assess patients with unscheduled primary care conditions and minor illness and injury needs face to face. The post holder will be directly or remotely supported by Senior Urgent Care practitioners, Trainee advanced clinical practitioners, advanced clinical practitioners, and doctors. The post holder will support the delivery of policy and procedures, ensuring clinical quality, evidence-based service, excellence in clinical practice, together with continuous professional development.
Please note this position will not commence before June 2025.
Main duties of the job
Lincolnshire Community Health Service requires all staff to safeguard children, young people, and adults. All staff are required to access the organisational policies, as well as the Local Safeguarding Children Board and the Local Safeguarding Adults Board policies and procedures that underpin the safeguarding agenda. The safeguarding policies to be followed are found at www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk and www.lincolnshire.gov.uk.
About us
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 percent 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 here.
Job responsibilities
1. Working autonomously to complete ICA (initial clinical assessment) of patients booking into the UTC environment. Full training will be given.
2. Working to support colleagues to see, treat, manage and discharge a full range of minor injuries and illnesses. Development will be provided in the future to work autonomously.
3. Making clinical decisions on where to direct patients when they arrive in the department, navigating serious illnesses and emergencies to A&E.
Person Specification
* Registered Nurse/Paramedic
* 2 years post-qualification experience in emergency or urgent care
* History taking qualification
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Use of PGDs
* Minor illness or minor injury experience or qualifications
* System One knowledge
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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