Emergency Practitioner

We seek an experienced & self-directed Emergency Practitioner 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.

Tewkesbury Hospital has a dedicated minor injury & illness unit (MIiU) open 08.00-20.00 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

Potential Training Opportunities
- MIMIC
- PACR
- SEXI adult and child
- PADRAP
- Non-medical Prescribing

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 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 over 1 year old.
- 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.
- 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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to have been recognised as a ‘Veteran Aware Trust’, evidencing the provision of the best care for Veterans and driving to improve the care for veterans and their families. Find out more about this by clicking on the link at the right-hand side, titled ‘Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance’.

Detailed Job description and main responsibilities are available in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.