Senior Urgent Care Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 14
- Posted
- 13/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Senior Urgent Care Practitioner to work part-time within Stamford Out of Hours, delivering face-to-face consultations and telephone triage. You will manage patients with minor illnesses, seeing, treating, and referring them as needed. The position requires dynamic individuals with minor illness skills to complement an existing team of GPs, ACPs, and HCSWs. You will also provide clinical leadership during shifts and support other urgent care services occasionally.
Essential criteria
- Regulated Health Care Professional with existing registration
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Level 6/7 History Taking qualification
- HEI or LCHS approved minor illness course
- Evidence of Level 7 study
- HEI or LCHS approved paediatric course
- Independent prescribing / supplementary prescribing qualification, or a willingness to work towards.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership modules
- Recognising the sick child
- Recognised Teaching and Assessing course (e.g. Mentor Preparation, SLIP, Clinical Educator course, PGCE).
- Chronic disease management
- Previous Experience
- Significant post registration experience where autonomous working at a highly specialised level that has been acquired in the speciality area or a related area where enhanced skills could be transferrable.
- Experience of clinical leadership
- Proven track record of teaching/supervising and assessing.
- Experience of working within multi professional settings with consolidated clinical practice and contributing to effective team working
- Experience of leading evidenced service improvement and innovation through service/practice development initiatives, audit or research.
- People management experience.
- General management experience.
- Regulated Health Care Professional with existing registration
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Level 6/7 History Taking qualification
- HEI or LCHS approved minor illness course
- Evidence of Level 7 study
- HEI or LCHS approved paediatric course
- Independent prescribing / supplementary prescribing qualification, or a willingness to work towards.
- Leadership modules
- Recognising the sick child
- Recognised Teaching and Assessing course (e.g. Mentor Preparation, SLIP, Clinical Educator course, PGCE).
- Chronic disease management
- Previous Experience
- Significant post registration experience where autonomous working at a highly specialised level that has been acquired in the speciality area or a related area where enhanced skills could be transferrable.
- Experience of clinical leadership
- Proven track record of teaching/supervising and assessing.
- Experience of working within multi professional settings with consolidated clinical practice and contributing to effective team working
- Experience of leading evidenced service improvement and innovation through service/practice development initiatives, audit or research.
- People management experience.
- General management experience.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust
Senior Urgent Care Practitioner
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
We are looking for a Senior Practitioner to work within Stamford Out of Hours delivering face to face consultations and telephone triage.
We are looking to recruit dynamic individuals with minor illness skills that will also compliment the existing team of GP's, ACPS and HCSW's.
This is a part time post 14 hours a week. We are looking to employ dynamic individuals with recognised qualifications and experience in minor illness and or experience working in GP practice, which will also compliment our existing team of GPs, Advance Care Practitioner and Health Care Support Worker's.
Main duties of the job
Main duties will be to deliver a service 19:00pm-22:00pm Monday- Friday, weekends and bank holidays are 08:00am- 22:00pm to the community. The service will include see, treat and management of patients with minor illness.
See, treat, manage , discharge and or refer patients of all age ranges to other LCHS services or partner services across Lincolnshire
On occasion you may be required to support other urgent care services such as UTC's, home visiting and the Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) which run 24/7 services. There is daily GP support available remotely or in person as well as well-established referral pathways into specialities
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