Emergency Practitioner inCambridge inCambridge PUBLISHED 1 DEC 2023

Band 7: £46,148 to £52,809 a year p.a. pro rata  PERMANENT 
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances.

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK ( www.jobsincare.com/job/jobnhs0K

This vacancy will close at midnight on 8 October 2024

Interviews are due to be held on 16 October 2024


Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.


We are looking for an Emergency practitioner to join our team in looking after patients that present to the ED with a minor injury. Have you experience in treating and diagnosing minor injuries, treating them autonomously throughout their journey in the ED?


Are you competent at X- ray interpretation, have a deep understanding of anatomy and physiology? Competent with all types of wound care? Come and join our team.

To provide and facilitate an expert level of autonomous practice to patients in the Emergency Department by assessing, investigating/interpreting, diagnosing, treating and discharging/ referring patients with minor injuries/illness in the department, without reference to a medical practitioner. Whilst working under agreed protocols.

To provide expert clinical and professional advice and support to the multidisciplinary team within the Emergency department, Trust wide and externally on the specialty of Minor Injuries/illness.

To provide an efficient and high quality level of care for the injuries/illness patient whilst reducing waiting times and meeting government targets.

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK ( www.jobsincare.com/job/jobnhs0K

This vacancy will close at midnight on 8 October 2024

Interviews are due to be held on 16 October 2024


Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.


We are looking for an Emergency practitioner to join our team in looking after patients that present to the ED with a minor injury. Have you experience in treating and diagnosing minor injuries, treating them autonomously throughout their journey in the ED?


Are you competent at X- ray interpretation, have a deep understanding of anatomy and physiology? Competent with all types of wound care? Come and join our team.

To provide and facilitate an expert level of autonomous practice to patients in the Emergency Department by assessing, investigating/interpreting, diagnosing, treating and discharging/ referring patients with minor injuries/illness in the department, without reference to a medical practitioner. Whilst working under agreed protocols.

To provide expert clinical and professional advice and support to the multidisciplinary team within the Emergency department, Trust wide and externally on the specialty of Minor Injuries/illness.

To provide an efficient and high quality level of care for the injuries/illness patient whilst reducing waiting times and meeting government targets.



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