Triage Nurse - Community Nursing

jobs24.co.uk; Cheadle; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative community service is seeking a passionate Band 5 NMC Registered Nurse to join their North Alliance LAP Service. This role offers the opportunity to provide remote triage for calls and referrals, ensuring high-quality patient care without regular face-to-face contact. You will utilize your clinical knowledge to resolve queries and facilitate effective assessments, while occasionally delivering care in community settings. The position offers flexible shifts and a supportive environment focused on career development. Join a dedicated team making a real difference in the community!

Benefits

Excellent NHS Pension scheme

Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Options for flexible working

Up to 27 days annual leave

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support

Free car parking at all trust sites

Free flu vaccinations

Salary sacrifice car options

Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund

Qualifications

• Must be a Band 5 NMC Registered Nurse with community nursing experience.
• Strong clinical knowledge and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide remote triage of calls and referrals for community nursing.
• Liaise with patients and families to support clinical decision making.

Skills

Community Nursing Knowledge

Clinical Decision Making

Patient Care

Triage Skills

Communication Skills

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and engaging Band 5 NMC Registered Nurse, who has a distinct passion for delivering high-quality patient care within community services.
You will be joining our North Alliance LAP Service on a full-time basis to provide remote triage of calls and referrals made to the North community nursing teams.
As a triage staff nurse, you will be expected to have professional and clinical knowledge of community nursing. While not providing regular face-to-face patient contact, you will need to maintain up-to-date knowledge of the clinical aspects of community nursing to resolve clinical queries over the phone and enable effective remote assessment and clinical triage. To ensure a high standard of care is provided, occasional delivery of care to patients in a community setting will be required to maintain up-to-date clinical experience.
You will be based at Weaver House, Cheadle. Due to the nature of this role, shifts are 7-3pm, 9-5pm, or 10-6pm, covering 7 days a week. You will make appropriate decisions following comprehensive remote triage to ensure the safe management and allocation of visits where needed, in response to calls and referrals received by the community nursing service.

As part of this role, you will also be required to:

1. Determine eligibility of patients referred to the service and collect additional information to support decision making. Transfer or redirect referrals to appropriate internal or external services as appropriate.
2. Liaise with patients, families, carers, and other service providers to support clinical decision making to identify appropriate management of referrals and messages. This may include providing advice on self-management, transfer to other services, or adding contacts for home visits or clinic appointments.
3. Liaise with the nurse in charge of the appropriate nursing team to allocate urgent visits and discuss potentially complex referrals.
4. Review all referrals and messages to the community nursing service, which will include an understanding of the following areas of care:
   
   • Symptom management of deteriorating patients.
   • Palliative and end-of-life care.
   • Wound care.
   • Bladder catheter and bowel care.
   • Recognition of deteriorating patients and potentially life-threatening conditions.
   • Complex patients with co-morbidities.
   (NB. This list is not extensive)

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme.
• Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Options for flexible working.
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI, and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
• Free car parking at all trust sites.
• Free flu vaccinations every year.
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
• And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.