Senior Urgent Care Practitioner

Senior Urgent Care Practitioner

The closing date is 01 February 2026

We are looking for a Senior Practitioner to work within Spalding Urgent Treatment Centre, delivering face to face consultations.

We are looking to recruit dynamic individuals with minor illness and minor injury skills that will also complement the existing team of Senior and Urgent Care Practitioners, ACPS and HCSW's.

Main duties will be to deliver a 12 hour, 7 day weeks service to the Spalding community. The service will include see, treat and management of patients with both minor injury and minor illness.

See, treat, manage, discharge and or refer patients of all age ranges to other LCHS services or partner services across Lincolnshire.

On occasion you may be required to support other urgent care services such as UTC's, home visiting and the Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) which run 24/7 services. There is daily GP support available remotely or in person as well as well established referral pathways into specialities.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part‑time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

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The successful candidate will be required to see patients of all ages presenting with injury or illness complaints and complete the episode of care with treatment or referral onwards.

Consultations will either take place face to face or via telephone and documented timely and thoroughly within patient notes.

The post holder will influence, lead, support and motivate colleagues to maintain morale in difficult and challenging situations.

The post holder will provide clinical lead during a shift by modelling the professional attitudes and behaviours outlined in the LCHS behaviours framework.

Please see job description for further details.

• Registered Health Care Professional holding current registration with appropriate regulatory body.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Evidence of Level 7 study
• Independent prescribing / supplementary prescribing qualification, or a willingness to work towards.
• HEI or LCHS approved minor illness course
• HEI or LCHS approved paediatric course (UTC and CAS only) or willingness to work towards
• HEI or LCHS approved minor injury course
• Leadership modules.
• Recognising the sick child.
• Chronic disease management
• Recognised Teaching and Assessing course (e.g. Mentor Preparation, SLIP, Clinical Educator course, PGCE).

• Significant post registration experience where autonomous working at a highly specialised level that has been acquired in the speciality area or a related area where enhanced skills could be transferrable.
• Experience of clinical leadership.
• Proven track record of teaching/supervising and assessing
• Experience of working within multi professional settings with consolidated clinical practice and contributing to effective team working
• Experience of leading evidenced service improvement and innovation through service/practice development initiatives, audit or research.

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.

Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum, pro rata