Urgent Care Practitioner (UCP) in Nottingham

The Urgent Care Practitioner will provide autonomous clinical care across NEMS urgent care services. The role is open to suitably qualified UCPs, ECPs and Nurse Practitioners who are independent non-medical prescribers, and is designed to provide a mix of telephone and face-to-face consultations across Integrated Urgent Care Services, urgent treatment centres and other agreed service models.

Main duties of the job include:

• Work as an autonomous Urgent Care Practitioner across NEMS urgent care services, providing both telephone and face-to-face consultations.
• Assess, examine, diagnose, treat and safely discharge or refer patients with undifferentiated urgent care presentations.
• Make safe decisions around admission, transfer, referral, follow-up and safety-netting, working within professional competence and agreed local pathways.
• Recognise and act on serious illness, clinical deterioration, safeguarding concerns, mental health risk and presentations that require escalation to another service.
• Request and interpret appropriate investigations, including blood tests, urine tests, ECGs and imaging, in line with local policy, competence and relevant regulations.
• Prescribe, review and advise on medicines within the post holder's independent non-medical prescribing qualification, professional competence and agreed scope of practice.
• Maintain clear, accurate and timely clinical records, including assessment findings, clinical reasoning, advice given, decisions made and onward plans.

Telephone consultations will usually be undertaken within Integrated Urgent Care Services. Following induction, and where agreed by the service, some telephone consultation work may be undertaken remotely from home, provided that the post holder is meeting agreed KPIs, quality standards, governance requirements and information governance expectations.

Face-to-face work will include assessment and management of patients presenting to NEMS urgent treatment services. The post holder will be expected to recognise serious illness, clinical deterioration, safeguarding concerns, mental health risk and presentations requiring escalation or transfer to another service.

The role will ideally include a mix of telephone and face-to-face work. Multisite working may be agreed, although some NEMS locations provide both from the same base. The post holder will also contribute to learning, audit, incident review and service improvement, ensuring that care remains safe, effective, patient centred and financially sustainable.

NEMS Community Benefit Services (NEMS) is a not-for-profit social enterprise and a Company Limited by Guarantee. It has been operating in Nottinghamshire for over 25 years, now providing a population of more than 1.2 million with urgent primary health care services. It operates out of 2 registered locations and four bases and deploys a team of more than 370 healthcare professionals.

Details:

• Date posted: 29 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £56,878 to £61,649 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: U9183-26-0036

Job locations:

• Forward House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3AJ, United Kingdom
• Queens Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom
• Kings Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Essential qualifications include NMC, HCPC or equivalent professional standards, medico-legal aspects of autonomous urgent care practice and independent non-medical prescribing, assessment and management of urgent care presentations, safeguarding adults and children, mental capacity, consent and mental health risk, confidentiality and information governance, clinical governance, audit, incident learning and quality improvement.
• Skills and Abilities: Essential skills include the ability to make safe, autonomous clinical decisions, undertake safe telephone and face-to-face clinical assessments, explain complex situations clearly, maintain accurate clinical records, work under pressure, collaborate with teams, and adapt to changing service needs.
• Experience: Essential experience includes working clinically in a primary, community, urgent care, emergency care or out-of-hospital setting, autonomous assessment and management of patients, telephone or remote clinical assessment, face-to-face urgent care consultations, and independent non-medical prescribing.
• Knowledge: Essential knowledge includes NMC, HCPC or equivalent professional standards, medico-legal aspects of autonomous urgent care practice, assessment and management of urgent care presentations, safeguarding, mental capacity, consent, confidentiality, and clinical governance.
• Other: Essential abilities include flexibility in working patterns, willingness to work across multiple sites, and the ability to work remotely for telephone consultations.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.