Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Urgent Care Emergency Practitioner
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Company Description
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job Description
Band 7: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Permanent contract
Full time hours (37.5 hours)
Urgent care are delighted to invite applications to the role of Emergency Practitioner. It is a role based both at Queen Alexandra Hospital (QAH) and Gosport War Memorial Hospital (GWMH) and you will be expected to work on either site.
You would join our dynamic practitioner led teams in the urgent care departments at QAH and Gosport UTC as a specialist and clinical expert who is expected to provide high quality patient assessment and management of minor injury and illness.
You will practice autonomously, encompassing the skills of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, discharge and referral of patients, presenting to Urgent Care with undifferentiated injury and illness.
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To ensure that you are sufficiently prepared to develop your knowledge, skills, and behaviours to successfully work with us at an enhanced practice level, we expect you to have a sound depth and breadth of clinical experience across the UEC landscape.
For additional information please see attached Job description.
Qualifications
Essential
- Healthcare Professional registered with either the NMC, the HCPC or the GPhC
- Completion of an EP Course to degree level or equivalent, or, an appropriate advanced Allied Health professional program of study
- ENB 998 or C&G 7307 or equivalent teaching/mentorship course
- Evidence of highly developed specialist knowledge in Minor Injuries underpinned by theory and evidence
Desirable
- Degree or willing to work towards
- Evidence of developing practice and continual learning
- Evidence of teaching
- Evidence of research and audit
- Articulate and knowledgeable in current health issues
- ALS provider
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience (circa >4years) in an acute emergency setting, and some (circa >1year) as a band 6 working in an autonomous practitioner role
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously and within a team
- Advanced roles and procedures - advanced X-ray interpretation, ECG interpretation, biochemical requesting and interpretation, venepuncture, cannulation, I.V Drug therapy, plastering, advanced suturing skills, minor invasive operative procedures, manipulation of limbs under LA, Male and Female catheterisation
- Advanced clinical decision making skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Critical appraisal skills
- Organisational skills
- Inter-personal and team building skills
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Desirable
- IT skills
- Research and audit skills
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
Weekly Hours / Programmed Activities: 37.5
Salary Band: Band 7
Staff Group: Nursing and Midwifery Registered
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Area: Nursing
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