Job summary
Emergency Practitioner:
Directorate: Medicine & Emergency Care
Band: 7
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
Interview date: Week Commencing 16th December 2024
Medway Foundation Trust Emergency Department
1. Do you want to be part of an innovative and award-winning team?
2. Do you want to have a clear plan of continuing professional development and career opportunities?
3. Are you committed to delivering evidence-based care?
4. Would you like to have a varied rota including Practitioner and Primary Assessment roles?
If you have answered yes:
Apply to join our team working within Medicine & Emergency Care at Medway.
Main duties of the job
We are committed to ensuring that we have the right staff with the right skills, to effectively manage the care of patients attending for emergency treatment, so investing in your development is crucial to our strategy.
We see over 140,000 patients per year, including up to 150 ambulance arrivals per day.
To meet this challenge we are increasing our workforce, investing in their professional development and introducing new and innovative roles.
Medicine & Emergency Care provides an exciting and rewarding career; at Medway we offer a support and development package that has received national acknowledgement and was recently voted the winner at the annual Nursing Times Workforce 2020, Health Service Journal 2021 and Nursing Times Awards 2021.
Working in Emergency Care can be stressful and challenging; you will need to be resilient and hard working.
Working for us opens a world of opportunity, if you would like to discuss a career with us, please contact Tracey Croft, Lead Emergency Practitioner for further information or to arrange an informal visit.
As part of our ongoing commitment to professional development we are offering a number of apprenticeships and training opportunities in Leadership and Management, Business Services, Finance, Accounting and HR, Clinical Support Work, Research and Innovation, Nursing Associate and Assistant Practitioner alongside our in-house comprehensive clinical pathways.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time ?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This exciting opportunity is for the right person who is highly motivated and has an interest in minor injuries and illness. The applicant should be a Registered Nurse Practitioner with an expanded scope of practice and evidence of professional progression.
Working in a modern ED can be stressful and challenging; you will be resilient and hard working.
This role will play a key role in assessing, diagnosing, treating and discharging patients attending for Urgent and Emergency treatment.
The post holder will liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team to coordinate safe effective and timely care practices within the ED.
Provide clinical and professional leadership and supervision to nursing, supporting staff and students within the ED.
Provide nursing leadership and expert input to ensure effective flow into and out of the Emergency Department on a day-to-day basis
To promote an enabling, empowering and equitable culture, thereby ensuring services provided are of a high quality and are managed effectively and efficiently.
Please note, if you are considering applying for a role within our organisation we do recommend that staff are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, this is no longer a mandatory requirement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
5. Emergency Nursing qualification (199, BSC or MSc) / Minor Injury Illness Course
6. Level 1/2 RCN Emergency Nursing Competencies
7. Triage and PGD competence
Knowledge
Essential
8. Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit
9. Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct
10. Extensive knowledge of speciality
Experience
Essential
11. Extensive experience within speciality or other critical care experience
12. Extensive experience of primary care and ED environments
13. Experience of conducting appraisals, managing performance
Skills
Essential
14. Organisation and management skills
15. Articulate advanced written & oral communication skills
16. IT skills including use of email and office packages
17. Ability to work effectively under pressure
Values Based Question
Essential
18. Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome