Emergency Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Care

NHS AfC: Band 7 Main area: Urgent Treatment Centre
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 110

Site: Lister Hospital
Town: Stevenage
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/04/:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview We are recruiting for an Emergency Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Care who shares our vision to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will be responsible for actively managing, assessing, and coordinating the provision of high-quality care daily to meet agreed UTC (Urgent Treatment Centre) and professional standards.

You will, in conjunction with the other Band 7 staff, provide leadership, advise, and support to the patients attending the UTC, and will actively participate in staff appraisal, not only for yourself, but also for others, by setting objectives and learning outcomes in consultation with the Lead and Senior Nurse in working to the requirements of the NHS Plan.

As a Nurse Practitioner, you will be responsible for the provision of an autonomous service for UTC patients presenting with certain minor injuries and minor illness and will manage your own caseload, referring for a medical opinion only when secondary involvement is necessary.

You will cover shifts across a 24-hour period, seven days per week to ensure that the needs of the service are met. It may be necessary to cover shifts at the QEII UTC / A&E Lister as required.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

1. To act as an effective role model/expert resource to colleagues in the delivery of nursing care.
2. To co-ordinate nursing procedures and treatments, set standards and maintain high levels of care.
3. By effective workforce management/supervision of staff, ensure safe documented practice and co-ordinate risk assessments where situations may be detrimental to the health and well-being of an individual.
4. To report incidents involving patients and members of staff to the Lead or Senior Nurse or Senior manager on-call to ensure where possible corrective action is taken.
5. Carry continuous responsibility for standards of care.
6. To ensure that the Trust infection control policies and procedures are followed by all the team.
7. Act as a role model, demonstrating good practice and ensuring these standards are maintained.
8. Responsible for ensuring the patient environment is maintained.

Working for our organisation At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide, and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns, and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification Qualifications

• Registered nurse on the NMC registers with extensive experience
• Recognised post-registration course relevant to Minor injury/illness
• Evidence of continued professional development in relevant areas of speciality.
• Working towards a degree at higher-level Leadership qualification.
• Non-Medical prescriber or willingness to undertake the course.

Previous Experience

• Clinical and managerial experience within the field of Medical nursing at Senior Staff Nurse level.
• Current working knowledge and skills within Experience of caring for patients with medical complaints.
• Current experience working in medicine or equivalent acute area with proven management experience
• Experience in change management Experience of nursing within an acute clinical setting.
• Experience in managing a ward/department including management of staff, rota, staff competencies, and resources.

Skills

• Effective leadership ability.
• Ability to deliver multidisciplinary education at department level and to assess
• An effective communicator with attention to detail.
• Leadership to drive quality of care within the multidisciplinary team.
• Organisational skills.
• Evidence of team management skills.
• Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others.
• Ability to perform peripheral cannulation and venepuncture
• Understanding of research and audit and a willingness to participate in these within the department.
• Ability to develop and co-ordinate departmental training programmes.
• Flexible individual with an ability to work autonomously

Knowledge

• Ability to work with all staff on a multi-professional level, demonstrating up-to-date knowledge of practice development within acute medicine.
• Knowledge of computing skills.
• Evidence of professional development and a proven commitment to acute medicine.
• Broad knowledge of acute medicine and the management of medical conditions.
• Good understanding of good quality patient care and patient safety
• Good understanding of safeguarding.

Other requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular, we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

When you apply

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