Trainee Urgent Care Practitioner

The Trainee Urgent Care Practitioner will be supported to complete the relevant courses required for the post which will include Level 7 minor injuries & Level 7 minor illness course at Huddersfield University.

The role encompasses treating adult & paediatric patients who self-present or are streamed to the Urgent Treatment Centre or Walk in Centre with a variety of minor injuries and minor illnesses.

As a trainee Urgent Care Practitioner, the successful candidate will work under the direct supervision of the UCP clinical educator and experienced practitioners (ENP, ECP, UCP and ACP) to provide complete care ensuring the safe and effective management of patients, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge.,

• NHS Pensions


• Health & Wellbeing group to support staff


• Supportive & Friendly teams


• Opportunity to build a clinical portfolio in face to face, ED Streaming, Walk in Centre, Urgent Treatment centre, home visiting and telephone / video consultation


• Monthly education sessions provided by the education faculty


• Access to regular clinical supervision


• Dedicated education faculty to support training and development


• Dedicated education platform for mandatory training and other educational events


• Non-medical prescribing forum


• Annual Awards recognising our colleagues amazing contributions
  
  Local Care Direct (LCD) have exciting training positions available for highly motivated & suitably experienced clinicians to join our clinical team as Trainee Urgent Care Practitioners (UCP).


We are looking for innovative & hardworking individuals with a broad range of skills & experience in emergency or urgent care with at least 3 years post registration experience & exposure to a wide variety of patients with urgent care needs.

This role is an exciting opportunity for individuals wishing to expand their scope of practice & develop in to an autonomous practitioner role. Becoming competent in assessing, diagnosing & treating patients with minor injuries & minor illnesses.

This role will commence in Jan 25 in line with the start of the minor injuries course and on successful completion the Trainee UCP will work as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner. Then on successful completion of the minor illness course (commencing approx Sep 25) they will work as an Urgent Care Practitioner.

We care about people at Local Care Direct. Together, we act with kindness & respect, fairness & consistency, and honesty & integrity. Every one of our values is essential, but our impact is greater when we use all of them together.

Our purpose is to care for people. Established as a social enterprise in 2004 to deliver health services across West Yorkshire, our aim is to meet the needs and expectations of our patients, and our NHS and social care partners. Over the years, we have developed a broad range of services for patients across Yorkshire and the Humber including: a centralised contact centre, GP out of hours services, Urgent Treatment Centres, walk-in facilities, a dental assessment and booking service, as well as a number of bespoke services for our NHS clients.