Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

Assess, diagnose, treat, and advise patients presenting with a wide range of minor illness and injury presentations, ensuring safe, evidence-based, and person-centred care in line with individual scope of practice.

Perform relevant clinical procedures, including collection of pathology samples and minor interventions, as trained and competent.

Ensure clinical practice remains safe, within scope, and escalated appropriately when limits are reached.

Maintain up-to-date and accurate clinical records and documentation, using appropriate systems.

Keep up to date with mandatory training.

Contribute to patient flow by supporting appropriate streaming, clinical prioritisation, and safe throughput.

Person Specification

Management and Leadership

Essential

• Experience of developing clinical policies and procedures
• The ability to demonstrate understanding of the current issues affecting Primary Care services
• Evidence of commitment to support, develop and manage change
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Evidence of the ability to manage and motivate a team

Desirable

• Management Qualification
• Experience of recruiting and selecting staff

Communication

Essential

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with difficult situations.

Teamwork

Essential

• Commitment and experience of multi-disciplinary team approach to care.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team.

Teaching

Essential

• Commitment to own personal development.
• Evidence of training and development of staff and teams.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse or Health Care worker with professional registration.
• Extensive clinical experience within an unscheduled / urgent / primary care setting
• Specific skills in assessing and treating those with minor injuries and illness
• Non-medical prescribing v300 qualification
• Can demonstrate clinical assessment qualifications or Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification
• Masters level education, or equivalent

Desirable

• Teaching qualification
• Mentorship Qualification

Experience

Essential

• 5 years post registration experience.
• 3 years minimum experience with extensive practice in a Primary Care or an Emergency Care Setting with ideally with adults and children.
• Ability to take responsibility for the clinical care of all or specific groups of patients attending Bloomfield Medical Ltds portfolio of services
• Well-developed and honed clinical skills and proven ability to work under pressure and meet targets.
• Health Promotion experience
• IT and computer literate

Desirable

• Experience of Adastra clinical computer system
• Experience of EMIS Clinical computer system
• Experience in independent X-ray Interpretation.
• Teaching Experience
• Transferable skills to work on GP triage if required.
• Experience of managing a team and individuals.

Personal

Essential

• Excellent team leadership qualities.
• Must have a positive can do attitude, with an ability to deal with stressful situations.
• Willing to work unsocial hours across multiple sites.
• Proven flexibly in working patterns, including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to travel between sites to undertake split site duties if the need occurs.

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.

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

Bloomfield Medical Limited

Address

Whitegate Health Centre

150-158 Whitegate Drive

Blackpool

Lancashire

FY3 9ES

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Reception is the first point of contact for patients attending the Urgent Treatment Centre. The receptionist will record demographics and other mandatory information, which will include clinical details on the joint computer system. They will act as a first point of contact for all patients wishing to access unscheduled healthcare and will signpost patients to identified service providers as appropriate. This will involve welcoming new patients into the service and providing support and guidance on the ED Streamer check-in system.

The receptionist is the communication link between the clinical team and the patient whilst in the waiting room and will keep the patient updated on predicted waiting times for treatment, working closely with colleagues from the Urgent Treatment Centre to create a collaborative team approach to the reception cover.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Good standard of education or experience

Desirable

• NVQ Level Customer Services

Experience

Essential

• Previous reception experience
• Experience of dealing with the general public
• Office/Clerical experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft software

Desirable

• Experience of working in a NHS setting or a health care environment
• Experience and knowledge of Clinical Computer Systems eg. Adastra, Emis

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Ability to work as a team member
• Computer literate
• Able to exercise initiative in handling matters of minor importance not clearly defined within the scope of the job description
• Organisation and prioritising skills
• Good communication skills both written and oral
• Good Interpersonal skills

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Enthusiastic and committed
• Willing to work evenings and weekends
• Ability to diffuse difficult situations and deal with difficult members of the public
• Positive and confident
• Willing to participate in ongoing training

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Bloomfield Medical Limited

Address

Whitegate Health Centre

150-158 Whitegate Drive

Blackpool

Lancashire

FY3 9ES

United Kingdom