Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Urgent Care Clinical Lead
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Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner looking for an exciting leadership opportunity within Urgent Care?
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Urgent Care Clinical Lead Nurse/Paramedic to provide professional, clinical and operational leadership within our Out of Hours Primary Care Centre based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Working closely with operational, medical and governance colleagues, you will play a key role in shaping the future of urgent care services while maintaining high standards of patient care, workforce development, clinical governance and service improvement. This unique Band 8a role combines strategic leadership with regular autonomous clinical practice, allowing you to influence service delivery while remaining clinically credible and visible within the team.
Role
This is a 23-hour per week (0.61 WTE) position. The role is primarily based within the Out of Hours service, with one weekday leadership and management day worked during core hours at Wokingham Hospital. The expected working pattern is:
Week 1
- Monday: 19:00-23:00
- Tuesday: 19:00-23:00
- Wednesday: 19:00-23:00
- Thursday: 10:00-18:00
- Friday: 19:00-23:00
Week 2
- Thursday: 10:00-18:00
- Saturday: 10:00-18:00
- Sunday: 10:00-18:00
We welcome applications from experienced ACPs who are passionate about leading high-quality urgent care services, developing clinical staff and driving innovation and improvement across multidisciplinary teams.
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- Provide visible clinical leadership across both weekday and out-of-hours services, including evening and weekend clinical shifts within the Primary Care Centre.
- Maintain regular autonomous clinical practice, assessing, diagnosing and managing patients with minor illness and urgent care needs.
- Lead recruitment, appraisal, supervision and professional development of multidisciplinary staff.
- Oversee clinical governance, risk management, patient safety, incident investigations and quality improvement activity.
- Lead medicines management, prescribing governance and medication safety initiatives.
- Support the development and governance of Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
- Analyse service performance data and implement improvements to enhance patient outcomes and operational effectiveness.
- Work collaboratively with operational, governance and medical colleagues to drive service development and innovation.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
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Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Carla Woolford
- Job title: OOH Team Leader
- Email address: carla.woolford@berkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07920765378
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