Senior Triage Practitioner

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Norwich seeks a candidate experienced in urgent and emergency care to support a new integrated service. Responsibilities include triaging incoming referrals and overseeing health care delivery standards. This role is predominantly non-patient facing but offers opportunities to maintain clinical competencies. Join a drive to improve patient care and outcomes across the health system.

Qualifications

• Experience in urgent and emergency care.
• Passionate about patient care.
• Can-do attitude and willingness to support the health system.

Responsibilities

• Triage incoming referrals assessing patient's needs and prioritizing care.
• Oversee remote monitoring systems supported by senior clinical team.
• Lead triage team and contribute to coordination within UCCH.

Job description

Overview

Do you have experience in urgent and emergency care? Are you passionate about patient care? Do you have a can-do attitude and want to support the health system and patients getting more efficient care? Then this opportunity is for you.

You'll be working closely with members of our ambulance service, acute trusts, social care, and community care in an innovative integrated team; working across organisation boundaries, enabling a system-wide response that improves patients' care, experience and outcome.

Responsibilities

• To triage incoming referrals assessing the patient's needs, determining the priority of care and processing the referrals accordingly.
• To contribute to the delivery of high standards of health care to patients by overseeing and responding to the remote monitoring systems supported by the senior clinical team.
• To lead the triage team and contribute to the co-ordination within the Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub (UCCH), in the effective and timely triage of incoming referrals assessing the patient's needs, determining the priority of care and processing the referrals accordingly.

About the role

This is predominantly a non-patient facing role but with regular opportunities to maintain clinical competencies.

Join the Norfolk and Waveney Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub (N&W UCCH). The UCCH is a one-year-old integrated service, which brings together all the system health providers, to enable patients to get care in the right place, at the right time, by the right professional(s).