Band 7 Emergency Practitioner Lead- Emergency Department

You will combine day-to-day operational management with autonomous clinical practice, supporting safe, effective care while creating an environment where your team can thrive. Working with multidisciplinary colleagues, you will:

Provide visible, compassionate leadership, supporting colleagues and championing an inclusive team culture.

Assess and manage patients with minor injuries and illnesses within your scope of competence, promoting safe pathways and timely treatment.

Coordinate staffing, skill mix and resources to respond to changing service needs.

Develop colleagues through supervision, coaching, appraisal and support for learners and trainee Emergency Practitioners.

Use patient feedback, clinical audit and learning from incidents to drive improvements in quality, safety and experience.

You will be an NMC-registered nurse or HCPC-registered paramedic or physiotherapist, with considerable experience as an autonomous Emergency Practitioner assessing minor injuries and illnesses. You will bring relevant postgraduate learning and clinical competencies, including minor injury and minor illness management, and be a proficient non-medical prescriber.

Are you an experienced Emergency Practitioner ready to combine hands-on clinical practice with the opportunity to lead, develop and inspire others? Bring your expertise, ideas and inclusive leadership to a role where you can make a difference to patients and colleagues every day.

This is an exciting time to join us. You will play a part in the new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at Good Hope Hospital, helping shape how we deliver care for people with minor injuries and illnesses.

Expected to open to patients in 2027, the new purpose-built centre will bring urgent treatment and emergency care together under one roof. With additional consultation rooms, more individual triage spaces and an accessible, single-level layout, the development is designed to improve patient experience, privacy and timely access to the right care.

Just as importantly, you will be an approachable leader who communicates clearly, builds strong working relationships and supports others to develop. Experience of leading teams, supervising learners and contributing to service improvement will help you turn ideas into better care., University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.