Band 7 Emergency Practitioner Lead- Emergency Department
Requirements
Applicants must be an NMC-registered nurse or HCPC-registered paramedic or physiotherapist, with substantial autonomous Emergency Practitioner experience and postgraduate learning and competencies in minor injury and illness care. They must be a proficient non-medical prescriber and demonstrate team leadership, learner supervision, extended clinical skills, service improvement experience, and knowledge of urgent and emergency care frameworks and safeguarding.
Job Description
Emergency Practitioner Team Manager
Lead with compassion. Inspire your team. Help shape the future of urgent care.
Are you an experienced Emergency Practitioner ready to combine hands-on clinical practice with the opportunity to lead, develop and inspire others? Bring your expertise, ideas and inclusive leadership to a role where you can make a difference to patients and colleagues every day.
This is an exciting time to join us. You will play a part in the new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at Good Hope Hospital, helping shape how we deliver care for people with minor injuries and illnesses.
Expected to open to patients in 2027, the new purpose-built centre will bring urgent treatment and emergency care together under one roof. With additional consultation rooms, more individual triage spaces and an accessible, single-level layout, the development is designed to improve patient experience, privacy and timely access to the right care.
Just as importantly, you will be an approachable leader who communicates clearly, builds strong working relationships and supports others to develop. Experience of leading teams, supervising learners and contributing to service improvement will help you turn ideas into better care.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
Main duties
You Will Combine Day-to-day Operational Management With Autonomous Clinical Practice, Supporting Safe, Effective Care While Creating An Environment Where Your Team Can Thrive. Working With Multidisciplinary Colleagues, You Will
Provide visible, compassionate leadership, supporting colleagues and championing an inclusive team culture.
Assess and manage patients with minor injuries and illnesses within your scope of competence, promoting safe pathways and timely treatment.
Coordinate staffing, skill mix and resources to respond to changing service needs.
Develop colleagues through supervision, coaching, appraisal and support for learners and trainee Emergency Practitioners.
Use patient feedback, clinical audit and learning from incidents to drive improvements in quality, safety and experience.
You will be an NMC-registered nurse or HCPC-registered paramedic or physiotherapist, with considerable experience as an autonomous Emergency Practitioner assessing minor injuries and illnesses. You will bring relevant postgraduate learning and clinical competencies, including minor injury and minor illness management, and be a proficient non-medical prescriber.
Bring your leadership to our next chapter
Our values; Kind, Connected and Bold guide how we care for patients and work with one another. If you share these values and want to help develop both people and services, we would love to hear from you.
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Emma Cowley, ED Matron (0121) 424 7498
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
Nursing & Midwifery Council Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist
Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by evidence of post graduate academic courses, short course and development of clinical competencies in practice
Evidenced In The Following Areas
- Minor Injury Management (Level 6/7)
- Minor Illness Management (Level 6/7)
- Proficient Non-Medical Prescriber
- Consultation Skills
- Physical Examination Skills
- IRMER (Ionising Radiation Medical Exposure Regulation)
- Interpretation of Images / Xray
- Adult / Child Life Support Courses
- PGD practice aligned to Trust procedures
Essential
Considerable experience working as a Band 7 (or equivalent) Emergency Practitioner in autonomous assessment of minor injury and minor illness.
Demonstrable ability / experience in working in a multi professional approach to health care delivery and can demonstrate appreciation for complexities of patient access to primary
/secondary and voluntary care settings.
Demonstrable understanding of the NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care -- Emergency Practitioner Framework 2023
Can demonstrate understanding of the National NHS Emergency Care target and the relationship with the role.
Skills
Demonstrable scope of extended practice relevant to the role and can evidence post graduate training in skills related to the role including:
- Plastering
- Suturing
- Wound management / assessment
Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with a clinical service.
Experience in leading and managing teams working in a health / care relating practice setting.
Experience in participating in the development and updating of policy and procedure. Experience in supporting service change and improvement in a health and care related
practice setting.
Demonstrable understanding of UK NHS frameworks and approaches to Emergency and Urgent Care and its application across NHS services
Well-developed understanding of Child / Adult Safeguarding
Desirable
Prior experience working as an Emergency
Practitioner at Band 6 or Equivalent in an urgent / emergency care practice setting as an autonomous practitioner.
Experience in the recruitment and selection of staff
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Emma Cowley
emma.cowley@uhb.nhs.uk
01214247498
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9018806
Job locations
Good Hope Hospital
Rectory Rd
Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands
B75 7RR
Attachments
Job Description
JD PS - Band 7 Emergency Practitioner Lead- Emergency Department.pdf – 497KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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