Job summary
Senior Emergency Practitioner - Band 7
MIU - Chippenham & Trowbridge
Permanent - Full and Part time opportunities available
Do you enjoy working in a busy environment where no two shifts are thesame?
Would you like to work in a highly supportive team with excellent opportunitiesfor development and progression?
Do you want to fully utilise and develop your clinical skills underpinnedwith funded Masters Level Training as an Emergency Practitioner?
If so, our Minor Injury Units are the place for you!
Wiltshire Health and Care have two Minor Injury Units, in Chippenham andTrowbridge, that treat approximately 2000 patients across the service permonth, making a real difference, providing care closer to home and avoidingadmission to hospital wherever possible and appropriate. Our aim is to closelyintegrate with the Primary Care Network to widen the conditions we are able tosupport within our units. Both units offer a unique experience of carerequirements, and you will have the opportunity to work across both sites.
Main duties of the job
As an Emergency Practitioner you will be a Registered Nurse or Paramedic.You will need to have the desire to autonomously assess and treat patients. Youwill have excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills along withthe ability to lead together with a passion to provide patient centred care.You will be working across a shift system which includes evenings, weekends andbank holidays.
You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team who pride themselves ontheir excellent team working and support of each other whilst treating adiverse range of conditions. You will have excellent opportunities for learningand development with access to a wide range of courses to develop your clinicalskills along the four pillars of care. You will be supported to obtain theNon-Medical Prescribing qualification if not already part of your skill set.
This role will provide you with a challenging but rewarding opportunityto utilise your skills and to deliver excellent care to a wide group ofpatients. We are happy to consider standard and long day shift patterns.
Please don't hesitate to contact Barry Iedema if you would like anyfurther information or to arrange an informal visit via 07392 280263
About us
Wiltshire Health and Care provides community based healthservices, enabling people to live healthy independent lives. Our Vision is to enable people to live independant and fulfilling lives for as long as possible. We are an NHSpartnership organisation, focused entirely on delivering quality health andcare to the people of Wiltshire - not on making a profit.
There has never been a better time to join us. Communityservices are expanding as part of the NHS Long Term Plan and the population ofWiltshire has never needed the energy, enthusiasm and commitment of ourcommunity-focused teams more than now. You will join a friendly and supportiveteam who live our values of Quality, Integrity, Partnership and Change, whichwere developed with our staff, patients and carers.
If you already live in or near Wiltshire, youll know thatit is a great place to live and work: rolling countryside, bustling markettowns and vibrant city life combined with excellent transport links and goodschools. If you are looking to move to the area, we offer local employment anda chance to play a crucial role as part of your new community straight away.What are you waiting for?!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attachedJob Description (under Supporting Documents) for more information regarding therole and to access the full person specification.
Person Specification
Additional Criteria
Essential
1. Access to a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and hold a full and valid driving licence.
Qualifications
Essential
2. Live registration with regulatory body as relevant to profession NMC, HCPC
3. Emergency Nurse Practitioner course at Level 3
4. Teaching: ENB998; FETC 730 or equivalent
5. Immediate Life Support (Adult and child)
6. Degree (or able to demonstrate recent study at this level and willingness to complete).
7. Ability to demonstrate evidence of ongoing professional development.
8. Training in managing conduct, health, sickness and performance, recruitment & selection, appraisal
Desirable
9. Masters degree
10. Management course NEBS or equivalent
11. Non-medical prescribing
12. Child Protection level 3
Experience
Essential
13. Significant experience within ED/MIU including appropriate experience as an autonomous practitioner at Band 6 or above
14. Audit: Carry out, evaluate and action findings
15. Clinical Supervision
16. Appraisal
17. Teaching
18. Organisational political awareness
19. Legal and Professional awareness
20. Finance and budgets, high level and local provision
21. High level of clinical knowledge
22. Current National and local issues in healthcare provision
23. Paediatrics
24. Worked collaboratively in teams
25. Demonstrates achievement in quality/practice development
26. Demonstrates ability to develop staff
27. Demonstrates ability to implement change
28. Thorough and up-to-date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice
29. Thorough understanding of equality and diversity, its application to managing self, staff and patients across the Trust
30. Understanding your Professional Bodies Code of Practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self
31. Evidence of effective budgetary management
32. Evidence of effective staff/HR management
33. Evidence of involvement in Clinical Governance
34. Understanding of Management of COSHH and Health and Safety of Patients and Staff
35. Project management experience
Desirable
36. Evidence of involvement in service users advocacy and complaints resolution
37. Cannulation
38. Ability to undertake research