Clinical Triage Clinician

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a Clinical Triage Clinician to join its team. The role involves prioritizing urgent referrals, collaborating with health care professionals, and utilizing advanced clinical skills to ensure appropriate patient pathways. Applicants should be registered nurses with leadership and IT skills. The position offers both full-time and part-time options, along with flexible working arrangements. Join a team committed to delivering safe and compassionate care.

Benefits

Flexible working

Home or remote working options

Full-time and part-time availability

Qualifications

• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Experience of triage skills is essential.
• Proven leadership and team skills.

Responsibilities

• Triage urgent referrals and allocate resources appropriately.
• Collaborate with health care professionals to provide effective support.
• Communicate sensitive information clearly and effectively.

Skills

Clinical skills

Leadership

Critical analysis

Communication

IT skills

Education

Registered General Nurse, NMC registered

Degree in Professional Nursing/Health Studies

Mentoring and Assessing qualification

Successful completion of a leadership course

Job description

Go back South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Triage Clinician

The closing date is 26 January 2026

Base - Whitnash Lodge/ Agile Homeworking

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join a well-established team working within the iSPA Integrated Care Co-ordination Service (ICC).

The team’s role is to triage all urgent referrals who require an urgent or same day response from the Urgent Community Response Teams (UCR). ICC also has the ability to signpost to an alternative more appropriate service or provide clinical advice only if required.

Your role will be to safely triage using a sound clinical knowledge base, monitor and triage ambulance referrals through the CAD portal, refer, allocate and support access to out of hospital services, primary and secondary care.

Clinicians will use their sound clinical knowledge and risk assessment skills to clinically triage and clearly identify urgent and non‑urgent patient referrals allocating and arranging visits to our patients within the community setting.

ICC are at the forefront of technology with OOHCC and are always looking at interactive resources and systems to provide a smart and efficient service.

Please be advised that part time fixed term contract is also available - 9 months and 12 months

Main duties of the job

The post holder will use their sound clinical knowledge and risk assessment skills to prioritise referrals through the clinical triage service as necessary.

The post holder will effectively coordinate the resources available within Out of Hospital services to maximise access to services or signpost to other appropriate services available.

The post holder will ensure that all contacts with the clinical triage services reach an effective and appropriate outcome for the patient.

Organisational

To provide managerial support to the team including Performance Development Reviews, Clinical Supervision and Recruitment and Selection

To provide leadership to the clinical team

To provide knowledge and guidance with respect of clinical health services and to ensure and facilitate an effective interface between primary care services and out of hospital services

Contribute towards ensuring the AHP & Nursing Strategy is implemented.

Participate in the development, training and mentorship of pre‑registration students/medical students and staff as required including induction and preceptorship programmes

To provide assistance with the resolution of complaints within the clinical speciality, or sphere of responsibility

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑Upon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on‑Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are “Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care”. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2

We appreciate you completing the survey.

Job responsibilities

To signpost, refer and support access to out of hospital services, primary and secondary care.

To clearly identify urgent and non‑urgent referrals and allocate patient to the appropriate pathway as appropriate

To interrogate the Trust’s Information systems with the purpose of eliciting patient information to support the decision‑making process

To liaise with relevant Health Care Professionals and Carers (with appropriate consent) to elicit relevant patient information which supports the decision making process

To work collaboratively with colleagues to provide a high‑quality clinical triage service to the Trust’s other Health care Professionals

To build close working relationships with the referral sources by assisting in the development of pathways from the Clinical Triage team to other providers and agencies to ensure that effective sign‑posting, and pathways are maintained.

Act in accordance with current local Warwickshire Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Trust guidelines/policy to protect vulnerable adults

Act within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and/or another Professional Group

Communication

Develop and maintain effective communication networks including within complex situations, with service users, health care professionals and other statutory and voluntary organisations.

Receives highly sensitive information on a daily basis from a variety of referral sources both external and internal

The post holder will communicate effectively by telephone, letter, email and fax

Communicates effectively at all levels

Clinician is responsible for gathering and imparting information at all levels

Use effective communication skills, both oral and in written format, to communicate complex, sensitive and often contentious information to a wide range of people including, clinical and non‑clinical staff.

Analysis and Judgement

Promotes and maintains accurate record keeping and conforms to SWFT policy, professional group policy and data protection legislation.

Uses resources effectively and being aware of budgetary constraints including ordering of equipment.

Planning and Organisational Skills

Supervise and direct work undertaken by other members of the skill mix team on a daily basis.

Direct responsibility for the day to day peer supervision and performance of the clinical triage team.

Responsibility for Patient Care

Acts as patients advocate where appropriate.

Be proactive in offering health promotion and participate in health promotion activities where appropriate.

Policy and Service Development

Understanding of national policy and guidance with the ability to interpret and implement at service level

Participate in and contribute to service redesign and policy development to benefit patient care.

Responsibility for Human Resources

To identify workforce planning issues and actively participate in the recruitment, selection and retention of clinical staff.

Ensure team members are up to date with mandatory and statutory training

Responsible for Performance Development Reviews for staff within the team.

Professional Responsibilities and Freedom to Act

The post holder will be expected to undertake Clinical Triage and make decisions based on good Information and thus will be responsible for information gathering.

The post holder will be expected to make complex decisions on the information gathered

The post holder will have sole responsibility within agreed guidance regarding decision

The post holder will be supervised by a designated Team Manager

The post holder will be advised by the Team manager

The post holder is an autonomous clinician and will work within the local and national guidelines expected for the position

Undertakes clinical assessments

Interpret national guidance on NMC guidelines and/or other Professional Groups

Promote and participate in clinical supervision

Maintain clinical and professional competencies in accordance with relevant statutory legislation and guidance relevant to health professionals and their services

Responsibility for Research & Development

Ensure standards, protocols and policies are evidence based and applied to practice

Keep abreast of current clinical issues thus always promoting best practice

Critique and use research to inform practice

Participates and leads when appropriate in clinical audits

General

The Trust endorses the principle of whether people smoke or not is a matter of personal choice but where they smoke is a matter of public concern. The policy on smoking and health protects non‑smokers and requires that all Trust premises are smoke free.

Physical and Mental Effort

The post holder may be required to operate as a lone worker in accordance with Trust policies and procedures

The post holder will be required to concentrate for prolonged periods of time

The post holder will be required to work at a pace to manage periods of high volume of calls as required.

The post holder will be required to complete clinical triage process with the ability to focus on multiple computer systems in tandem.

Organisational Responsibilities

Information Security and Confidentiality

During the course of your employment you may have access to, see or hear information of a confidential nature and you are required not to disclose such information, particularly relating to patients or staff. All person identifiable information must be held in the strictest confidence and should be disclosed only to authorised people in accordance with NHS Confidentiality Guidelines and the Data Protection Act 1998 unless explicit written consent has been give by the person identified, or where information sharing protocols exist.

Standards for Better Health

The Standards for Better Health works as a framework for continuous improvement in quality of the care that people receive. As an employee you will be expected to work within this framework and assist with the process of ensuring that the Trust offers effective and high‑quality services.

Staff at all levels has a responsibility for ensuring that risks are managed at work group and local level. This process will include the assessment and effective control of all acceptable risk situations.

As an employee you will be expected to maintain a high level of awareness and assist in the process of reporting incidents, assessing risks and reporting unsafe occurrences and co‑operate with any investigations undertaken.

Employees will be required to adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and attend statutory and mandatory training.

Equality & Diversity Aims

As a member of staff at the Trust you have a personal responsibility to ensure you do not discriminate, harass or bully or contribute to the discrimination, harassment or bullying of any colleague(s), patients, carers or visitors or condone discrimination, harassment or bullying by others.

Standards of Business Conduct & Conflict of Interest

The NHS Code of Conduct and Standards of Business conduct for NHS Staff require all employees to declare all situations where you or a close relative or associate has a controlling interest in a business [such as a private company, public organisation or other NHS or voluntary organisation] or in any activity which may compete for any NHS contracts to supply goods or services to the Trust. All such interests must be declared in WCHs register of interests either on appointment or when such interests are gained.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse, NMC registered
• Degree in Professional Nursing/Health Studies
• Additional postgraduate specialist training or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Mentoring and Assessing qualification
• Evidence of successful completion of a leadership course, eg. Mary Seacole, LEO

Experience

• Relevant and up to date post registration experience within the speciality e.g Emergency/Urgent Care, District Nursing.
• Experience of triage skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Experience of working in a team environment
• Experience and understanding of audit and evidence-based care

Skills

• Clinical, leadership and critical analysis skills.
• Proven listening and counselling skills
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical skills Extensive general knowledge of adult health conditions, wound care principles and current best practices of care
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and communication skills
• Good decision making abilities
• Understanding of change management process
• Team player- able to work well within a team environment
• Proficient IT skills, must be able to work within multiple computer systems, therefore must have confident IT skills
• Ability to write clear documentation and maintain accurate records

Personal Qualities

• Diplomatic
• High level of interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and to prioritise work

Other

• Flexible and positive approach to work
• Able to attend office and/or other SWFT sites, as required.
• Must be a non-smoker during working hours
• Must be willing to undertake Criminal records Bureau Disclosure to Enhanced / Standard level

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

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