Job summary

Are you an experienced Emergency Care Nurse or Paramedic with a passion for urgent care and advanced clinical practice?

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Band 7 Nurse/Paramedic Practitioner to join our Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) at West Berkshire Community Hospital. Our practitioner-led service operates 08:00-22:00, 7 days a week, providing assessment, treatment and management of adults and children presenting with minor injuries.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as an autonomous practitioner within a supportive multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality urgent care while contributing to service development, clinical leadership and continuous improvement.

We are seeking an enthusiastic clinician who can demonstrate:

• Registered Nurse (NMC) or Registered Paramedic (HCPC)
• Experience working within an MIU, UTC, Emergency Department or frontline urgent care setting
• Advanced History Taking and Physical Examination skills
• Minor injuries training
• Strong clinical triage, risk assessment and prioritisation skills
• Experience working autonomously and making complex clinical decisions
• Excellent communication, documentation and team-working skills

Main duties of the job

As a Band 7 Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in the delivery of front-door clinical assessment and triage within the MIU. You will:

• Undertake expert clinical triage, assessing patients presenting with urgent care needs and determining the most appropriate pathway of care
• Carry out comprehensive history taking, physical examination, risk assessment and clinical decision-making for both adult and paediatric patients
• Identify red flags, recognise deterioration and initiate appropriate treatment, referral or escalation where required
• Assess, diagnose, treat and discharge patients autonomously within your scope of practice
• Utilise specialist skills including suturing, wound management, plaster application, eye assessment and X-ray interpretation
• Prescribe, supply and administer medicines in accordance with Trust policies, PGDs and prescribing qualifications
• Support clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and service development activities
• Contribute to the development and support of colleagues within the urgent care team

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Details

Date posted: 13 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 371-CHS1303
Job locations: Urgent Treatment Centre, Thatcham, RG18 3AS, United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

The must haves for this role:

• NMC/HCPC registration and urgent care experience
• Strong clinical triage and assessment skills
• Ability to work autonomously and make safe clinical decisions
• Commitment to high-quality patient care and teamwork

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.

If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Carla Woolford on 07920 765378 or email:carla.woolford@berkshire.nhs.uk wholl be delighted to help.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

Essential:

• Registered General Nurse (NMC) or Registered Paramedic (HCPC)
• Minor Injuries qualification
• Advanced History Taking and Physical Examination
• X-ray interpretation course
• Non-Medical Prescriber or willing to undertake within 12 months of appointment

Desirable:

• Minor Illness experience
• IRMER training
• Mentorship Qualification

Continuous Professional Development

Essential:

• Evidence of recent study
• Up to date professional portfolio
• Compliance with mandatory and statutory training requirements

Desirable:

• Relevant urgent care or advanced practice development courses

Previous Experience

Essential:

• Experience within MIU, UTC, ED or frontline paramedic practice at Band 6 or above.
• Evidence of recent urgent care practice.
• Training in consent, mental capacity and safeguarding
• Significant experience undertaking clinical triage, risk assessment and prioritisation in an urgent care setting.
• Experience assessing and managing both adult and paediatric patients.
• Minimum 1-year experience working as autonomous Emergency Practitioner
• Broad range of nursing/paramedic experience.

Desirable:

• Evidence of recent clinical practice in Urgent Care

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential:

• High level of clinical knowledge
• Awareness of current healthcare issues
• Awareness of clinical governance principles relevant to urgent care.
• Evidence of working under PGDs or as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
• Excellent assessment, observation and documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Suturing, plaster application, eye assessment and X-ray interpretation skills.
• Sound IT skills.
• Advanced clinical triage, risk assessment and patient prioritisation skills
• Ability to recognise deteriorating patients and initiate appropriate escalation.
• Demonstrates advanced clinical decision-making and autonomous practice.

Desirable:

• Paediatric specialist knowledge.
• Experience of service improvement, audit or quality improvement initiatives.

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.