Senior Urgent Care Triage Practitioner

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust; England; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust is recruiting a Senior Urgent Care Triage Practitioner. The role involves triaging referrals, coordinating care pathways for patients in crisis, and supporting early discharge to reduce hospital admissions, within an integrated, system-wide team.

You will work closely with ambulance services, acute trusts, social care, and community care. This is predominantly non-patient facing but requires maintaining clinical competencies and effective

Qualifications

• Current NMC or HCPC registration.
• Adult Nursing BSc or Paramedic Sciences BSc.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in Advanced Consultation skills.
• Assessor/mentorship preparation; ENB 998 or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Triage patients referred to UCCH as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and prescribe care pathways for patients in crisis with long-term conditions and frailty.
• Support early discharge and prevent unnecessary admissions.
• Work with health care professionals and agencies to provide integrated service.
• Assist activity within UCR Hub (triage) and Community Virtual Ward.
• Arrange care interventions and assessments for patients referred to UCCH/UCR/VW.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Empathy

Team player

Good concentration

Initiative

Observation & reporting

Education

NMC or HCPC registration

Nursing BSc or Paramedic Sciences BSc

CPD evidence

Tools

Job description

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Senior Urgent Care Triage Practitioner

The closing date is 16 November 2026

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.

Join the Norfolk and Waveney Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub (N&W UCCH). The UCCH is an 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).

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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.

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

Please note, the selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

Job responsibilities

To triage patients referred to UCCH as part of the multidisciplinary team.

To assess and prescribe care pathways for patients in a crisis situation with long term conditions, the frail & elderly, palliative and end of life care and/or rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.

To work within the integrated team to support early discharge from hospital. To work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.

To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

To support activity within UCR Hub (triage) and Community Virtual Ward.

To assess, prescribe and arrange care interventions and assessments for all patients referred to the Single Point of Access [UCCH, 2h‑Urgent Community Response (UCR), Rapid Response and Virtual Ward (VW)].

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration or Current HCPC registration
• Adult Nursing BSc or Paramedic Sciences BSc
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience in Advanced Consultation skills
• Assessor/mentorship preparation; ENB 998 or equivalent

Experience

• Evidence of working at band 5 level within the community or acute setting
• Knowledge of additional specialist areas through in‑house training & short courses
• Knowledge of remote monitoring and available technology

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

• Highly motivated
• Able to provide high standards of care
• Tact & diplomacy
• Empathy & sensitivity
• Ability to use own initiative
• Good concentration for patient care and inputting data/patient records.
• A team player
• Work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs.
• Interest in learning new skills for remote clinical monitoring

Communication

• Good observational & reporting skills
• Good interpersonal skills

Personal and People Development

• oProfessional appearance
• oBe able to: Kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments
• oManoeuvre limbs of around 5-6 kg
• oManoeuvre patients using handling aids
• oBe reliable

Personal Attributes / Behaviours (linked to the Trust's Behaviour Framework

• oAble to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults.

Other

• oThe post holder will need to be passed fit to perform full duties of the post through occupational health with any reasonable aids and adaptations if necessary.
• oMust hold full and valid and driving licence and have access to a vehicle
• oAble to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language
• oThis is a 7 day a week service and some weekend working will be expected. Hours of service delivery, 8am‑8pm

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.

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust