We are looking for Senior Practitioners to work within Gainsborough Urgent Treatment Centre, delivering face-to-face consultations.
We are looking to recruit dynamic individuals with minor illness and minor injury skills that will also complement the existing team of Senior and Urgent Care Practitioners, ACPS, and HCSWs.
Please note this position will not commence before April 2025.
Main duties of the job
Main duties will be to deliver a 12-hour, 7-day-a-week service to the Gainsborough community. The minor injury service will include seeing, treating, and managing simple fractures and wound closure.
See, treat, manage, discharge, and/or refer patients of all age ranges to other LCHS services or partner services across Lincolnshire.
On occasion, you may be required to support other UTCs such as Lincoln.
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 recognizes 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: Learning and Development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* Patients across all age ranges
* See, treat, manage, discharge, or refer patients.
* Manage minor injury patients
* Manage minor illness patients
* Use of PGDs/medication
* Teamwork with ACPs, Trainee ACPs, Urgent Care Practitioners, HCSWs, and receptionists
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Health Care Professional holding current registration with appropriate regulatory body.
* Evidence of working to PGDs with advanced knowledge (AHPs)
* Safeguarding-level 3 or willingness to undertake
* Minor Injuries level 6 or 7 or very relevant experience
* Minor Illness level 6 or relevant experience
Desirable
* Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
Previous Experience
Essential
* Evidence of recent and ongoing personal development including obvious leadership development
* 2 years post-registration experience in relevant urgent or emergency care settings
Desirable
* X-ray interpretation
* Wound closure, suturing
Skills
Essential
* Evidence of multi-agency & professional working
* Basic IT / keyboard skills
Desirable
* Use of System One electronic records
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust
Address
Gainsborough UTC
John Coupland Hospital
Gainsborough
DN21 2TS
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