Band 6 Triage Nurse- West Locality Hub

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a Band 6 Triage Nurse to provide comprehensive telephone triage and clinical assessments for patients. The role will involve assessing new referrals, determining the necessity and urgency of patient visits, and managing the existing caseload for community nursing. This full-time position offers a chance to join a dedicated team committed to delivering outstanding care and support in the local community.

Qualifications

• Autonomous practitioner providing comprehensive telephone triage and clinical assessment.
• Ability to triage referrals to determine service eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Assess referrals and messages to decide on necessary patient visits.
• Support patient scheduling and review existing caseload.

Job description

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested ***

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new role within BCHC as a Band 6 Triage Nurse. The triage nurse will assess the new referral or message to determine when and if the patient requires a visit. You will act as an autonomous practitioner providing a comprehensive telephone triage and clinical assessment service to patients and/or their carers/relatives resulting in a safe and appropriate clinical decision.

The post will be based at Summerfield Primary Care Centre, B18 7AL. The post is a full‑time position, Monday - Friday. The clinical triage role will be a fundamental part of the new teams, supporting the clinical triage of new patient referrals and messages. These new referrals come through Single Point of Access (SPA) from the following services (GP/Hospital/Health Care Professionals/self-referral/social workers); the clinical triage role is to triage the referral/message against the service specification to determine if the patient meets the criteria for a Community Nurse Team visit. The role will also involve triaging messages from patients on the current caseload to establish if a visit is needed and the urgency of the visit. The post holder will also support in the rescheduling of patient visits and the review of the caseload the patient scheduling building.

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address.

Be Part of Our Team

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5,000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sommer Matthews
Job title: Service Manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07738121250