Job overview
The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice within the field of the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) in order to provide patient-centered, quality care.
They will assess, diagnose, treat, or refer patients of all ages presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
The post holder will work alongside clinicians with acute and primary care experience, nurses, healthcare support workers, and emergency nurse practitioners.
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will have key working relationships with all members of the nursing, medical, multidisciplinary, and department management teams.
Main duties of the job
1. Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients attending the Urgent Treatment Centre.
2. Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
3. Provide professional, advanced clinical support and advice to nursing staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team working within the Trust.
4. Appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations within the boundaries of the role.
5. Maximize patients’ health and reduce risks that contribute to ill health, thereby reducing unnecessary admissions to acute services.
6. Maintain their own clinical development by keeping updated with any changes to treatment and guidelines within their own field of practice.
7. Contribute to the education and development of staff within the team.
8. Keep up to date with mandatory training and self-rostering of learning needs through the trust learning/booking diaries.
9. Contribute to patient experience by ensuring individual clinical needs are met.
10. Recognize the need to be flexible working across a trust based on two separate sites.
Working for your organisation
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and mid Wales.
Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust’s catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east.
The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford, and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) – all beautiful and unique.
Our main service locations are The Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury. Together, they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals offer a wide range of acute hospital services including emergency, outpatient, diagnostics, inpatient medical care, and critical care. We also provide services such as consultant-led outreach clinics at Telford, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen, and the Bridgnorth, Ludlow, and Whitchurch Community Hospitals.
We employ more than 6,000 people, and hundreds of colleagues and students from other organizations also work in our hospitals.
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