SPA Clinical Triage Nurse

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; Billingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Billingham is seeking a SPA Clinical Triage Nurse to manage patient referrals and provide support to the Virtual Frailty Ward. This role involves working closely with multiple services to ensure efficient patient care, particularly for those in their last years of life. The ideal candidate will have experience in triaging and a commitment to high-quality patient service.

Benefits

Inclusive and supportive workplace

Health and well-being initiatives

Personal and professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in triaging patient referrals.
• Ability to support patients in their last 12 months of life.

Responsibilities

• Receive and triage referrals quickly to the right services.
• Support the Virtual Frailty Ward during daily MDT meetings.
• Monitor health systems for heart failure patients.

Job description

Overview

The role of the SPA Clinical Triage Nurse is to receive referrals from a diverse range of people & services, triage the referrals & ensure that they reach the right service in the shortest time. The team also provide significant support to the Virtual Frailty Ward at their daily MDT meetings. SPA Triage monitor the Health Call system which is utilised by heart failure patients, ensuring that out of range observations are escalated & acted upon. Palcall is a further element of the SPA Triage role; this is a telephone support & signposting service for people deemed to be within their last 12 months of life.

About University Hospitals Tees

At University Hospitals Tees our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

What we offer

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

Approach

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Values

We recruit for values and "Together we are University Hospitals Tees"