Job overview
Candidates must hold full NMC registration
We are looking for a motivated dynamic Band Triage Nurse to join the Cambridge and Ely Community Nursing teams to deliver high-quality care. Excellent communication and time management skills, and sound clinical knowledge, are essential. A flexible approach is required to accommodate the changing needs of the service along with the drive to influence service development.
The post holder will be required to review all referrals to ensure they are appropriate for the criteria of the Community Nursing Service, make contact with the referrer and/or patient/carer, add relevant care plans for the Nursing Team to follow, and where appropriate signpost on to the correct team. You will also be triaging patients SOS calls and messages via a task system, acting appropriately depending on clinical need by contacting the patient/carer and/or passing on visits to JET or Community Nursing Team with all the required information handed over.
This is an exciting time to join the team and you will be a part of excellent way of working to meet the changing demand on community nursing.
Main duties of the job
1. To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team, neighbourhood teams and admin hubs.
2. To initiate and co-ordinate the care pathway processes by close liaison with all levels of staff and services in a timely manner to meet the patients’ needs.
3. Using enhanced assessment, problem solving and decision making skills. Identify the patient needs, including the management of clinical risk and facilitate patient flow to the most appropriate service/ profession.
4. To be responsible for triage caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
5. To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team.
6. To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
7. To supervise junior staff and students overseeing patient intervention and ensure that a high standard of care is delivered and staff achieve set competencies.
8. To be accountable for a delegated case load
9. To prioritise all referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
10. To role may require you to provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient’s own home this includes lone working, with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.