Miu Practitioner

**MIU Practitioner - Newquay Community Hospital**:
**Band 5/Band 6**:
**Main area**
- MIU
- **Grade**
- Band 5/Band 6
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week (7.45am - 8.15pm to include weekends and Bank Holidays.)
- **Job ref**
- 201-24-115**Site**
- Newquay Community Hospital
- **Town**
- Newquay
- **Salary**
- £28,407 - £42,618 Pro Rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 11/02/2024 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
We have an exciting opportunity to work in our Minor Injuries Unit at Newquay Community Hospital.

This is a developmental MIU Practitioner post or MIU Practitioner Band 6 post and we are interested in interviewing both Practitioners who able to work in an practice role in minor illness and paediatrics and also aspiring Practitioners with at least two year post registration experience who would like to develop further** and **are already undertaking or aspire to undertake a relevant minor injuries and illness course.

A passion for minor injury care, good communication skills, and a commitment to work in an MIU team delivering high quality care are all essential. You must be responsive to change, flexible in your approach and have a sound knowledge of professional issues.

The MIU currently operates from 8am - 8pm/10pm covering a 7-day service and is committed to delivering high quality care to the local population, which exhibits a marked increase in patient-attendance during the holiday period. To meet operational capability, there is opportunity to work in surrounding MIUs to meet demand.

**Main duties of the job**:
Band 6 MIU Practitioner:
To deliver, without supervision, effective assessment and treatment of patients utilising evidence based approach. Responsible for the care needs, the management of treatment and evaluation of clinical interventions, reflecting the needs of patients attending this Unit.

Responsible and accountable for the delivery of patient care in unit

Band 5 MIU Practitioner (Development Post):
To deliver, under supervision, effective minor injury services to patients utilising an evidence-based approach.

Responsible and accountable for the delivery of patient care in a practitioner-run MIU. Appropriate supervision will be provided by Band 6/7 MIU practitioners.

Band 5 MIU Practitioner (Development Post) applicants must have at least two years post registration experience.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust.