Triage Clinician

Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust; Leeds; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a skilled Triage Clinician to join our Community Nursing team in Leeds. You will perform clinical triage, prioritise referrals, provide timely advice and safety-netting, and coordinate workloads to support safe, effective patient care in the community.

You will work closely with Neighbourhood Team colleagues, GPs, and other partners to manage both planned and unplanned care pathways, ensuring patients receive the right care at the right time.

Responsibilities

• Clinically triage referrals to community nursing services, prioritising according to clinical need and risk.
• Provide timely clinical advice, signposting, and safety-netting to patients, carers, and professionals.
• Allocate and coordinate workloads within the community nursing team.
• Escalate concerns appropriately and support urgent or complex cases.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records.
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to support seamless patient care.

Job description

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Triage Clinician to join our Community Nursing team. Our clinical triage role is performed in a high-volume, highly dynamic, and time-critical environment. We are the first step in both planned & unplanned community nursing care where accurate minute-to-minute assessment and prioritisation of patient acuity is essential to.This role is central to ensuring patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place, supporting safe and effective management of referrals and urgent community nursing needs. You will provide clinical triage and advice for patients in the community, working closely with Neighbourhood Team Colleagues, Acute Trusts, GPs, multidisciplinary teams, and other partner services.This is a varied and rewarding role combining clinical expertise with strong decision-making and communication skills. The Neighbourhood Team Triage Hub has recently undergone significant change and transformation and is continuing to evolve. This role presents an excellent opportunity to be involved at an exciting time, with real scope to help shape how community care is delivered across the City of Leeds, supporting both planned and unplanned care pathways.,

• Clinically triage referrals to community nursing services, prioritising according to clinical need and risk.
• Provide timely clinical advice, signposting, and safety-netting to patients, carers, and professionals.
• Allocate and coordinate workloads within the community nursing team.
• Escalate concerns appropriately and support urgent or complex cases.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records.
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to support seamless patient care.
  Working for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leeds Community Healthcare provides a range of community-based health services across the whole city. We treat people in their homes, local health centres and community hospitals, and work in partnership with other local Trusts, charities and Leeds City Council. We have a strong culture based on deeply-held values, and our focus at all times is on delivering high quality care to the people of Leeds. In our most recent CQC evaluation, we were rated "Good", with our Adult Services rated "Outstanding" for caring.