This 12-month secondment sits within St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, a nurse-led service for minor injuries and urgent conditions. The post centres on triaging, assessing and treating patients with minor and urgent complaints. It is a senior, autonomous clinical role within a wider multidisciplinary team, in a centre open seven days a week, every day of the year. Applicants must first obtain their current manager's agreement to be released before applying.
What the job involves
- Triage patients with minor and urgent complaints
- Assess and treat patients with minor and urgent complaints as an autonomous practitioner
- Work as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
Registration & licences
- Registered general nurse (RGN) with current NMC registration
Experience
- Substantial post-registration experience
- Experience in a walk-in centre, urgent treatment centre or emergency department
Skills & knowledge
- Clinical skills and extended scope of practice knowledge required for the role
- Knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults procedures
- Basic life support and treatment of shock and acute medical conditions
- Venepuncture, cannulation and interpreting results
- Recognising the sick patient through vital signs, history taking and prioritising
- Excellent communication and IT skills, with organisation and record management
Other
- Alignment with Trust values of kindness, openness and inclusivity
- Working flexibly in line with service needs
- Problem-solving, priority setting and handling difficult situations
Nice to have
- Educated to degree or diploma level
- Clinical examination and diagnostics skills at level 7 or equivalent
- Non-medical prescribing qualification (V300) or working towards it
- Research and audit experience, including how audit influences quality of care
- Knowledge of current professional and clinical issues
- Incorporating evidence-based practice in patient-centred care
- Leadership and mentoring skills
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
