This vacancy offers an excellent opportunity to join a supportive bank team, with the flexibility to work across all East Sussex Urgent Care Units, including Lewes, Uckfield and Crowborough Minor Injury Units. Alternatively, you may choose to work across our West Sussex Urgent Treatment Centres and Minor Injury Units (MIUs) in Crawley, Bognor or Horsham.

We need Registered Nurses or Paramedics to join our established team who have a post registration Practitioner qualification & experience in Urgent Care & who are able to work autonomously, adapt to a fast paced, progressive service & provide excellent clinical care to their patients.

In return you will work in a supportive environment where your colleagues are a professional team, patients truly appreciate the service they can access close to home & for a Trust committed to staff development, well-being & engagement.

Main duties of the job

This role covers the Sussex Community Foundation Trust Urgent Care and MIU Units. The post holder will work within local, national & NICE guidelines to triage, assess, and treat patients attending the Units. NHSE is continuing to lead on the transformation of a variety of services into Urgent Treatment Centres although currently our Minor Injury Units remain. The post holder will provide assessments for patients presenting to the Units with either an injury or illness. This means that an existing qualification is required in either illness or injury.

This post involves both sound, autonomous clinical assessment & treatment skills & the knowledge of where to re-direct inappropriate attendances, ensuring patients are transferred safely according to their presenting condition. The Post holder will be integral to the team and contribute to the overall running of the Units which includes the management of other staff working within the Unit, support with education or training needs and daily supervision.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

Act as autonomous practitioner to triage, assess, examine and treat the nature & extent of injury/ illness for each patient. To assess those that are acutely unwell & arrange any immediate treatment (within guidelines) & safe transfer to the most appropriate facility.

Use clinical tools such as X-ray. To know when to request and how to interpret, making independent judgement on the diagnosis and treatment of fractures and seeking further opinion when required.

To use & develop skills to include tissue adhesives, suturing, administration of injections including infiltration of local anaesthetic, manipulation of pulled elbows, digits, plastering.

Able to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of Patient Group Directions available for a range of presenting conditions in the absence of a Non-Medical Prescriber qualification. Demonstrate sound knowledge of the administration of drugs for analgesia or treatment within the Units.

To supervise & mentor additional members of the team as required such as Nurse Practitioners, HCAs, student nurses & paramedic practitioners. This to include appraisals & sign off mentoring.

To demonstrate personal & professional development and undertake training where required within agreed timescales.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Professional Registration

• NMC or HCPC Registration
• Registered accredited study in minor injury or illness
• Advanced Physical assessment
• Educated to degree level
• Irmer certificate
• Non Medical Prescriber

Experience

• Substantial Post Registration experience in urgent care field
• Recent autonomous clinical experience
• Experience in using clinical software systems eg S1, PACS, Emiss.
• Able to use Patient Group Directions
• Some experience in minor illness
• Recent experience in primary care

Skills and Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate Excellent clinical skills
• Adult & Children's safeguarding
• Evidence of extended clinical skills relevant to level of practice such as suturing, plastering
• X-ray requesting and interpretation
• Able to recognise clinically when a patient requires referral in both the emergency and planned situation
• Ability to empower patients by appropriate health teaching and advice
• Knowledge of local and national policies relevant to clinical area.
• Experience with the development of protocols, guidelines and policies
• Knowledge of Health and Safety within clinical practice and associated areas
• Experience of clinical audit

Other requirements

• Must be a car driver
• Willingness to travel across all 3 units

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.