Senior Emergency Practitioner

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.5 hours per week.

We seek experienced & self-directed Senior Practitioners with a passion and commitment to the care they deliver & who hold patient experience and care at the heart of their practice and share our organisational values. You will need to be motivated and enthusiastic in your role & looking for an opportunity to join our highly skilled team of autonomous Emergency Practitioners who deliver evidence-based clinical care in our Practitioner Led Unit.

Stroud Hospital has a dedicated minor injury & illness unit (MIiU) open 7 days a week & reopened in 2023 following a refurbishment.

This post is eligible for the Trust’s Recommend a Friend scheme. If you have been recommended to apply for this role by an employee of the Trust, you should include a short statement to this effect in your supporting information, including the name of the person who recommended you. If you are successful with your application, the employee who recommended you needs to access the relevant forms to process this from the Trust’s intranet or the HR Recruitment Team.

Based in the MIiU, you will be required to provide a high standard of care to Adult & Paediatric patients who present with minor injuries and illness.

Essential Requirements For This Role:

• Relevant Professional Registration & clinical experience in MIiU / ED
• Emergency Practitioner qualification in injury & illness
• Paediatric Qualification in minor injury & illness (Paediatric PACR or MIMIC)
• Teaching & Assessing qualification

As a member of the Gloucestershire NHS, the unit offers a diverse range of training opportunities and is committed to personal as well as service development. We also offer the opportunity of training with a preceptor to support the transition induction period and ongoing professional development.

A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential. For qualifying staff, the Trust has a Lease Car Scheme in place and also offers a popular Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme with our partner Tusker.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

About:
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.