Nursing - Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Treatment Centre

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, Health Care Support Workers, Emergency Nurse Practitioners.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will have key working relationships will all members of the nursing, medical and multidisciplinary and department management teams.

Main duties of the job

and participate in the clinical care of patients attending the Urgent Treatment Centre.
provide a level of advanced and comprehensive assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
provide professional, advanced clinical support and advice to nursing staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team working within the Trust.
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.
The post holder will maximise patient's health and reduce risks that contribute to ill health, thereby reducing unnecessary admissions to acute services.
maintain their own clinical development by keeping updated with any changes to treatment, guidelines within their own field of practice.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the education and development of staff within the team.
The post holder will be expected to keep themselves up to date with mandatory training and self-roster their learning needs through the trust learning/booking diaries.
The post holder will contribute to patient experience by ensuring the individual clinical needs are met.
The post holder will recognise the need to be flexible working across a trust which is based on two separate sites.

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 provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, 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 organisations also work in our hospitals.