Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

To be a qualified Nurse or AHP Advanced Practitioner to work as part of the Urgent Treatment Centre team to provide expert autonomous care and management of those attending all areas of the Urgent Treatment Centre.

Main duties of the job

To make complex, autonomous decisions utilising expert practice and knowledge.  To request and interpret laboratory and radiological investigation which are condition appropriate. To promote, implement and evaluate evidence-based practice.

The practitioner will participate in the provision of specialist education, training programmes and clinical leadership within the  UTC. They will collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team to develop and review medical and nursing protocols, guidelines and pathways within urgent care. This role will see the ACP working across adult and paediatric urgent  care.

Working for our organisation

Emergency Department Philosophy

Kingston Urgent Treatment Centre  works along side the emergency Department to provide a high standard of care to around 112,000 patients each year. The Advanced clinical practitioner will join our dedicated team of enthusiastic and motivated staff in delivering outstanding care.

Trust Culture and Values

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this our five values are that we are all:-

Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants

Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first)

Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation

Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution

Inspiring – we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'