Job summary
Tired of working nights? Enjoy flexible working options between 8am - 8pm at our place-based care units. We're recruiting Urgent Care Practitioners at our Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) in South Bristol and Minor injuries units (MIUs) in Yate and Clevedon.

Why join us?

• NHS benefits like salary (including enhanced pay for weekends and Bank Holidays)
• Regain the work/life balance you crave
• Grow professionally with our supportive teams.

Whether you're a Nurse, Physiotherapist or Paramedic by background, there's something to suit you!

Main duties of the job

• Autonomously triage, diagnose, and treat patients of all ages
• Perform treatments such as suturing, plastering, x-ray interpretation, non-medical prescribing and shift management
• Refer patients to specialist clinics and emergency departments as needed.

About us
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health - England's largest provider of Adult's and Children's Community Services and we'd love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong.

Whether you're starting your journey or looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet attached to this vacancy.

Please be aware: you will need to undertake at least one shift within a three-month rolling period to remain on the bank.

Why Work on the Bank with Sirona?

• Flexible working: choose shifts that fit around your lifestyle!
• Agenda for Change hourly rates including a 12.5% annual leave enhancement
• Enhanced pay for weekends, out-of-hours, and Bank Holidays
• Paid training to support your development and expand your competencies
• NHS benefits, including high street discounts
• Generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme with Royal London
• Health & wellbeing support, including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• A great way to build community experience, refresh your skills, or return to practice

Job responsibilities
How Does it Work?

• Submit your application online
• If shortlisted, you will be invited to a face-to-face interview
• If offered the role, attend a face-to-face Sirona induction
• You will then complete orientation shifts to meet the team and undertake clinical skills sign-off
• Once orientation is completed, you will have access to an app where you can view upcoming shifts and book direct

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role and can only accept applications from UK based applicants.

If you are currently requiring a visa to work in the UK, there must be a minimum of 14 months from your start date until the expiry date, please disclose your expiry date in your application.

If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.

Qualifications
Essential

• Professional registration with NMC or HCPC
• Appropriate higher education qualification for registration with governing body
• Post graduate qualification - Emergency /Urgent Care Practitioner (or similar)
• IRMER
• X-ray interpretation

Desirable

• Independent prescribing

Experience
Essential

• Significant experience of autonomous practice within an urgent or emergency healthcare environment
• IRMER and ability to interpret x-ray films
• Recent urgent care experience

Desirable

• Experience or qualification relevant to delivering remote clinical consultations

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.

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