Job Summary:

The postholder will practice as an Urgent Care Practitioner and support the daily clinical team to provide an on-the-day urgent care service for patients.

The role will involve the assessment, diagnosis, treatment or referral of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions.

The post-holder will work within the Urgent Care Practitioner/Advanced Practitioner remit within their level of competency.

Main duties and responsibilities:

1) Clinical

To provide high quality patient care

To provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first point of contact by attending to patients according to patients needs generally within the practice setting.

To support and continue the development of Urgent Care services in Emerald Health.

To accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in emergency situations, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical and drug history.

To evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.

To undertake and interpret diagnostics and take appropriate action to manage patient care, whilst distinguishing between abnormal and normal findings in order to relate them to a possible diagnosis. To use broad clinical guidelines (NICE etc) relating them to individual cases, providing assistance and feedback to the organisation and ot...