This Nurse Practitioner post sits within the Urgent Care and Walk-in Services team at Finchley Memorial Hospital, part of Central London Community Health Trust. The work centres on assessing and treating patients of all ages who present with undifferentiated conditions, most often minor injuries and ailments, working autonomously. Shifts currently run 8am to 8pm, though this may change with commissioning, and occasional cross cover at other walk-in and urgent care sites is expected. Fit depends on NMC or HCPC registration and at least five years in unscheduled or primary care.
What the job involves
- Provide evidence-based care to patients with injuries and undifferentiated health problems
- Work autonomously, using diagnostic skills and clinical reasoning for acute unscheduled presentations, mostly minor injuries and ailments, some with complex needs or acute on chronic conditions
- Deliver care in collaboration with emergency services, other health professionals, and statutory and voluntary agencies
- Work with doctors and trainee ACPs to define standards of care and practice that maintain or improve quality
- Work with other walk-in centres and urgent care centres, including occasional cross cover at other sites
- Work with senior staff on the operational management and organisational development of the service
- Work shifts within operating hours, currently 8am to 8pm, subject to change with commissioning requirements
What’s required
Qualifications
- Evidence of continued professional development and personal development planning
Registration & licences
- Current NMC registration as a registered nurse, or HCPC registration as a physio or paramedic
Experience
- Proven use of expert diagnostic and clinical skills for autonomous unscheduled care of undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions
- Proven experience assessing, managing and treating minor injuries and illnesses in patients of all ages
- Minimum of five years in emergency or unscheduled care, or primary care
- Working across organisational boundaries, negotiating and liaising
- Monitoring clinical standards
- Prioritising and managing own workload with minimal supervision
Skills & knowledge
- Comprehensive clinical skills, including history taking, physical examination of all ages, clinical reasoning, and diagnosis and prescribing or treatment
- Advanced anatomy and physiology, and clinical knowledge across long-term conditions
- Recent developments in unscheduled care, current health policy and legislation, and primary care collaboration with social care and voluntary services
- Adult and children's safeguarding procedures
- Audit, evidence-based practice and service outcome measures, with ability to implement in practice
- Clinical governance, risk management and clinical supervision
Other
- Equal opportunities in practice
- Basic IT skills, including Microsoft Office and email
Nice to have
- Masters-level advanced clinical practice education, or willingness to work towards an MSc in Advanced Practice
- Independent prescriber qualification, or on pathway to complete
- Qualification in prehospital or community care
- Qualification in teaching or practice-based learning
- University-accredited minor injuries module
- Team, service or staff management experience, and ability to lead, motivate and implement change
- Experience implementing evidence-based care, research, audit and innovation in practice
- Ability to make formal presentations to a range of audiences, and knowledge of resource management
What’s offered
- Competitive employment package
- Ongoing professional development
- Clinical supervision
- Career progression
- High Cost Area Supplement included in pay
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
