Job summary

Join our substantive GP team supporting the transformation of urgent care across Poole and Bournemouth UTCs.

You'll work alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality assessment and treatment for patients presenting with urgent and minor illness and injury.

What we offer:

• Competitive NHS salary and benefits
• Substantive employment and career development
• Cross-site working across Poole and Bournemouth UTCs
• Supportive, modern multidisciplinary working
• Opportunity to contribute to the development of a 24/7 Poole UTC

Join us and help shape the future of urgent care across Dorset.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• Assess, investigate, diagnose, treat and safely manage patients presenting with urgent, undifferentiated illness and minor injury within the Urgent Treatment Centres.
• Deliver high-quality urgent primary care across both Poole and Bournemouth Urgent Treatment Centres, supporting service resilience and equitable patient access.
• Provide senior clinical decision-making, ensuring safe, effective and timely management of patients in accordance with national and local clinical guidance.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including Advanced Practitioners, Nursing staff and Allied Health Professionals, to deliver coordinated patient-centred care.
• Determine the most appropriate onward management for patients, including discharge with advice, referral to community or primary care services, or escalation to secondary care where clinically indicated.
• Support the avoidance of unnecessary Emergency Department attendances and hospital admissions by managing appropriate patients within the Urgent Treatment Centre.
• Contribute to maintaining patient flow through timely assessment, treatment and discharge planning.
• Participate in clinical governance activities including audit, quality improvement, incident investigation and learning.
• Work flexibly across both Urgent Treatment Centre sites to meet service demands and support operational resilience.

About us

At University Hospitals Dorset (UHD), we are transforming how urgent, emergency and planned care is delivered across our two main hospital sites.

As part of our clinical services review, Royal Bournemouth Hospital will become the Trust's dedicated emergency care site, including the relocation of the Poole Emergency Department. Poole Hospital will increasingly focus on elective and planned care, alongside the development of a 24/7 Urgent Treatment Centre.

This is an exciting time to join UHD and be part of a major transformation of local healthcare services, with opportunities to help shape new models of care, develop your career and make a real difference to our patients and communities.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications

Job summary

Surgical Pre-admission Assessment is a great way to develop your nursing career.

The post involves screening and pre operative assessment of a diverse group of patients undergoing a wide range of elective surgical and orthopaedic procedures. The role requires an inquisitive nature & provides a varied and interesting workload where two days are never the same.

It is expected that the candidates for the band 6 post will have experience and knowledge of surgical procedures and pathways, good critical decision making skills & communication skills.

We pride ourselves on being a close and supportive team which consists of Anaesthetists, a Clinical Lead Nurse, Specialist nurses, Staff nurses, health care assistants and administrative staff, who would provide the successful candidate with the support required to become an integral member of our close team

Bournemouth Hospital is part of University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust since our merger with Poole Hospital. It is an exciting time for our department as we are in the process of roll out of our digital pre-assessment service, changing and shaping the way the department runs to improve patient care.

Base Location: Bournemouth/Poole with a move to Poole in line with the Phase 3 move.

Interview Date: 24th September

Main duties of the job

Assessment of patients undergoing surgical procedures, with a focus on major orthopeadics and digital triage to include taking of full health history, utilising GP records and historic notes, to ensure optimal pathway through to safe surgery. With advanced training, the band 6 role includes physical assessment of patients.

Coordination of the department on a daily basis to ensure flow of patients through the department & best utilisation of staff.

Ordering of investigations to include, but not restricted to, blood tests, ECG's, swabs & urine samples as per NICE guidelines & UHD protocols.

Referral to MDT where appropriate, to include anaesthetist, Anticoagulant clinic, Respiratory function team.

Communication with MDT to include admissions teams.

Coordination of patient follow up as integral part of role.

About us

UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.

UHD has active networks including Women's, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.

AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.

There is a planned move to Poole Hospital with in line with the Phase 3 move.