Mints Major Practitioner

About the Role

NHS Lanarkshire is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Mints Major Practitioner to join our team. As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will be responsible for assessing care needs and developing programmes of care, as well as implementing and evaluating these programmes to ensure high-quality care for patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess presenting conditions and initiate investigations
• Determine differential diagnosis and initiate treatment
• Review treatment plans developed by less experienced staff
• Supervise, develop, and deploy junior staff
• Manage the MINTS Service, including supervision and development of junior staff

Requirements

• Registered Nurse with current revalidation and NMC Registration
• Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
• Graduate Certificate in Urgent Care or Equivalent
• Mints Major / Minor Injury practitioner / or Emergency Nurse Practitioner qualification
• Postgraduate expertise within speciality / area of practice
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of Minor injuries
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies, and procedures
• Leadership skills to ensure optimum day-to-day management of the service
• Excellent team-working/leadership skills and ability to motivate others
• Excellent listening, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Effective time management skills
• Working knowledge of basic information technology

Contract Details

Fixed Term or Secondment until 31/03/2025

Part Time

28.2 hours

Please note this is a part-time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.

Please note this is a fixed-term post until 31/03/2025. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based Lanarkshire Wide.

The working pattern for this role: 12 hour Shifts

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire's benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

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