Emergency Practitioner

Job summary

This role is offered on a permanent basis, the hours are - 18hours per week

We seek a self-directed Emergency Practitioner Nurse/Paramedic with a passion and commitment to the care they deliver & who hold patient experience and care at the heart of their practice and share our organisational values. You will need to be motivated and enthusiastic in your role & looking for an opportunity to join our highly skilled team of autonomous Emergency Practitioners who deliver evidence -based clinical care in our Practitioner Led Unit.

The Vale Hospital has a dedicated minor injury & illness unit (MIiU) open 7 days a week & the post holder will be required to work a full range of shifts.

Essential requirements for this role,

• Relevant Professional Registration & clinical experience in MIiU / ED
• Emergency Practitioner qualification - or pending APiCA results

As a member of the Gloucestershire NHS, the unit offers a diverse range of training opportunities and is committed to personal as well as service development. We also offer the opportunity of training with a preceptor to support the transition induction period and ongoing professional development.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• To provide advanced, skilled, effective and evidenced based health care.
• To ensure patients are seen in priority order, utilising Manchester triage assessment
• To utilise advanced, specialist skills to undertake a thorough history, subjective and objective physical examination clinical decision making and safe treatment plan.
• To utilise advanced skills in x-ray request and interpretation to safely manage patients presenting with fractures.
• To utilise advanced clinical assessment and reasoning skills and knowledge to provide a safe service for all age groups including children and babies.
• When appropriate to safely discharge patients, taking into account both physical and social factors.
• To take the opportunity in every patient encounter to offer advice in health promotion and disease prevention and to advise and empower patients to self-care where possible.
• To undertake non-medical prescribing where qualified, or to utilise extensive PGD's when appropriate.
• To work in partnership with the wider urgent care team, acute trust, SWAST, OOH, social services, local GP's, ICT
• To have an innovative approach to practice in response to changing service needs and priorities. Acting as a change agent and facilitating the change process.
• To have knowledge of, and be able to effectively refer to local services and resources to promote care.
• To provide and receive sensitive complex information related to patients and relatives. To maintain confidentiality.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys