Urgent Care Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

City Health Care Partnership CIC

Job summary

In this role, you’ll be trusted to assess and manage patients with a range of urgent care needs, ensuring safe and timely treatment. You’ll work alongside a multidisciplinary team while developing your practice through in-house competencies. What you’ll do:

  • Assess, examine and prioritise patients presenting with undiagnosed conditions
  • Plan and deliver safe treatment, referring patients to specialist or emergency services when needed
  • Work independently within your professional scope, using evidence-based clinical judgement
  • Communicate clearly and sensitively with patients, carers and other health and care professionals
  • Maintain accurate patient records and contribute to safe, effective service delivery

Main duties of the job

What we’re looking for:

  • A Nursing or Paramedic Science degree, or significant relevant experience, plus appropriate specialist training
  • Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professions Council
  • Experience in an acute or primary care setting and evidence of continuing professional development
  • Strong communication, prioritisation and workload management skills, with a patient-focused approach

We welcome applicants from different backgrounds and communities, valuing fairness, respect, inclusion, teamwork and ideas that improve care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree in Nursing or Paramedic Science (Level 6) or significant experience.
  • Academic modules / specialist training completed in relevant area/subject
  • Professional Registration with the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) or HCPCP (Health Care Professional Council)

Knowledge

Essential

  • Significant knowledge of relevant policy and legislation, guidance and local initiatives and issues in relation to unplanned care
  • Working knowledge of multidisciplinary teams
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • Demonstrate the use of evidence based practice

Desirable

  • Comprehensive working knowledge of medication and interventions used in unplanned care
  • Knowledge of the legal framework surrounding medications prescribed or supplied, including PGDs, PSDs, EOL care pathways etc.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in an acute or primary care setting
  • Experience of workload management and the ability to meet deadlines
  • Experience of utilising a variety of software packages e.g. SystmOne, and E-Mail

Desirable

  • Previous experience of using PGDs
  • Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and working with patients with minor injuries and minor illness presentations
  • Experience of the initial management, stabilisation and onward referral of patients who may self-present with more serious/life threatening conditions

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 30 October 2026

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