Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency care
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0596
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide (Gloucester and Chelt ED)
- Town
- Gloucestershire
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Emergency Practitioner, Band 6
Band 6
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
We are looking to expand our Emergency Practitioner Workforce both in Gloucester and Cheltenham Emergency Department.
We will have variable hours of work, days and nights available working cross site.
Main duties of the job
Please see attached Job description attached to this document, please also contact
[email protected] for further information
Working for our organisation
I am delighted you are interested in a Band 6 Emergency practitioner job here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This information pack contains all the information you need to apply for the post, I would actively encourage you to read the information and make contact with me for an informal conversation. We provide acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Maternity Services are also provided at Stroud Maternity Hospital. We remain the major provider of secondary care services in the area and analysis shows that for Gloucestershire we are the leading acute healthcare provider by a significant margin.
At the very centre of our organisation is our dedicated nursing, midwifery and care staff, being part of the team here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a huge privilege and if successful you will be joining over 2,000 nursing, midwifery and care colleagues each committed to delivering great experience and outcomes for our patients.
Here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and pivotal to this are our nurses, midwives and care staff, whose dedication, expertise and kindness ensures that patients receive the very best care throughout their treatment. I wish you every success with your application to join this team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Ability to work under pressure in an ever changing, challenging specialist environment whilst maintaining excellent standards of patient care.
- Managing an autonomous caseload, which includes unpredictable work patterns and high levels of concentration on patient assessment, diagnosis, planning and discharge, and the requirement to meet national targets for Emergency Department attendances.
- Dealing with difficult situations and people where there can be significant barriers to understanding.
- Managing both verbally and physically aggressive patients, relatives and other visitors.
- Managing and supporting both patients and relatives in times of distress, occasionally including bereavement.
- Dealing with child protection issues.
Please see the attached job description for more information
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Active RN Adult/ Paediatric registration with the NMC or HCPC Registration on the Paramedic or Physiotherapy register
- United Kingdom recognised Degree in either: Level 6 BSc within Minor injury & or Illness Or Level 6/7 Advancing Practice in Clinical Assessment, Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis for Urgent, Emergency and Primary Care Practitioners
- Experience (through placement or employment) of working in an Acute & or Emergency clinical environment Experience in Minor Injury/illness
- Demonstrates ability to question and challenge nursing practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.
Desirable criteria
- Non- Medical Independent & Supplementary Prescribing or able to use PGDs
- Immediate Life Support
- Able to perform numerous wound closure techniques and reduction of dislocations and fractures
- Able to interpret a number of investigations including plain film X-Rays and blood results
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Newcombe
- Job title
- Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 6600
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