Senior Urgent Care Practitioner

Sirona Care & Health operates multi-professionally led, place-based urgent care services across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. South Bristol Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) provides same-day urgent care for patients presenting with minor injuries and minor illnesses. The service is open 8.00am to 8.00pm, seven days a week. We are currently recruiting for a motivated Band 7 Urgent Care Practitioner (ECP/ENP/Specialist Paramedic/Extended Scope Physiotherapist) to join our team at South Bristol UTC. In this role, you will undertake the comprehensive assessment, management, and referral of a diverse range of service users presenting with urgent injury and illness. The position also includes supporting junior team members, conducting remote consultations, providing shift leadership, and contributing to service improvement through audit and project work.

We offer access to regular internal training and a range of external higher education development opportunities, including Independent Prescribing courses. We are a friendly, experienced, and supportive team seeking a reliable, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is committed to delivering high-quality patient care.

Main duties of the job:

• Autonomously provide patient centred care, including assessment, shared care planning and appropriate referral of service users.
• Undertake a variety of consultation types including face to face, telephone and video.
• Utilise advanced clinical examination skills to support diagnostic reasoning and patient centred care plans.
• Utilise Patient Group Directions or Independent Prescribing (desirable) to appropriately manage patient presentations.
• Undertake shift leadership role to ensure the smooth running of the department.
• Support unit safety by effectively carrying out initial assessment and prioritisation of presenting patients.
• Provide clinical expertise and advice to colleagues and junior practitioners.
• Support the UTC management and colleagues to deliver robust clinical governance and service improvement programs.

Working for our organisation, we are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services. We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. 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.

Person specification:

• Professional Registration with NMC or HCPC
• Significant experience in a Urgent or Emergency health care setting (including Primary care)
• Experience working as an autonomous practitioner in a Urgent or Emergency health care setting (including Primary Care)
• Experience of clinical leadership
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of minor injuries and illnesses with a wide range of approaches to autonomous management of patients
• Demonstrate ability to work with complex clients and situations and a clear ability to problem-solve
• Ability to interpret x-ray films
• Experience or qualification relevant to remote clinical assessment
• Experience using Patient Group Directions (if not IP qualified)
• Experience undertaking advanced wound care, limb/joint reduction and immobilisation