Clinical Practitioner - Prescriber in Sunderland

We are currently looking for clinical practitioners to join our friendly team at Sunderland Urgent Treatment Centre. This is an exciting opportunity to come and work in a busy, dynamic environment where the focus is on teamwork providing excellent and efficient care to our local community by offering an alternative health care choice and reducing pressures on local Emergency departments.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide a see and treat/streaming service to ensure rapid patient throughput.
• Work autonomously and be accountable for his/her own professional actions.
• Assess undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.
• Take history, make appropriate physical examinations, formulate differential diagnoses and formulate/manage treatment plans when working in any clinical environment.
• Refer and facilitate patient pathways through appropriate referrals to primary, community, secondary and tertiary care for patients, when necessary, such as 2-week wait, urgent and routine referrals to specialities.
• Request investigations and be able to interpret results.
• Prescribe medication as required within your clinical competence.
• Recognise the need and initiate emergency treatment to save life or to safeguard the interests of the patient and refer to emergency services when appropriate.
• Recognise any social needs, safeguarding concerns and act appropriately to safeguard the patient.
• To ensure that patients are safely discharged from our care with appropriate instructions for after care and follow up.

About us:

The post holder will embody PHL's core values through a Team First approach to collaboration, being Truly Caring in their commitment to patients and colleagues, and demonstrating Pioneering Innovation through continuous improvement, adaptability, and service development.

Job responsibilities:

As a practitioner in the UTC the post holder will provide an expert level of holistic health care for adults and children requiring urgent and unscheduled care. The practitioner will achieve this by using their in-depth knowledge and experience and broad range of techniques to assess, investigate, interpret, diagnose, treat and refer or discharge patients. They will provide leadership and management to the clinical team motivating and inspiring and caring for the workforce and patients while ensuring a sustainable service.

The successful applicant should have some experience working as an autonomous practitioner either in the Emergency Department or an urgent care setting, but other applicants may be considered on experience. Suggested previous roles could be Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Care Practitioner, Specialist Paramedic. The role will be ideal for gaining experience, knowledge and in assessing and treating patients with a wide variety of minor injuries and minor illnesses.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• Essential: Registered with the NMC/HCPC, Non-medical prescriber qualification, Completion of level 7 module/s including a history taking and patient examination/decision-making module, Working towards PgDip/MSc qualification, Minor illness and minor injury qualification or the COP Specialist Paramedic qualification, Level 3 safeguarding of adults and children, Teaching and mentorship qualification, Must be able to demonstrate and meet competencies of all mandatory training as required within the policies of the organisation, Must be able to clear and enhanced DBS check.
• Desirable: IRMER qualification, Red dot qualification, Experience of lab result interpretation.

Experience:

• Essential: 2 years' experience of working at ANP/nurse practitioner or specialist paramedic level, At least 5 years post qualification experience, Good knowledge and experience in the assessment and management of minor injury and illness presentations, Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team including mentoring of junior staff, Good organisational skills in the and ability to manage and prioritise own workload, Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Desirable: Accident and emergency or urgent treatment centre experience, Experience of telephone triage assessment and relevant pathways/electronic prescribing, Good knowledge of primary care referral pathways such as 2-week-wait referrals, Good knowledge of QOF and locally commissioned services.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details:

Employer name: Partnering Health Ltd

Address: Kayll Road, Sunderland, SR4 7TP, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.phlgroup.co.uk/