SPA Triage Clinician

Sirona care & health CIC

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Job summary

Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity with flexible working hours? Come and join our SPA Team!

No matter what stage in your career you are at, The Single Point of Access (SPA) is a great place for nurses and allied health professionals to develop their careers by utilising their knowledge and skills to improve patient outcomes and deliver an excellent service to those who contact our service.

As a Triage Clinician, you will be given a high degree of autonomy to reach a safe and appropriate disposition that may include providing advice and guidance, onward referral to a Sirona team or signposting to the most appropriate service for their needs, always being an advocate for the patient, SPA, own profession and for Sirona.

You will work alongside our diverse team of Triage Clinicians and health navigators who are responsible for processing the routine referrals and urgent callout requests that are received for adult patients within Sirona boundaries.

You will work alongside a compassionate leadership team who accommodate their staff. We can offer full time, part time and flexible working patterns. Hybrid working is available after your initial 6-week training.

As a SPA Triage Clinician, you will be working across the following areas:

Warmley Busines Park - South Gloucestershire
Withywood Centre - South Bristol
Castlewood - Woodspring

This is a fast paced and dynamic environment operating between the hours of 07:30 and 20:00.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll be working as a SPA Triage Clinician, ensuring everyone who accesses the service receives a high quality of care that is underpinned by the Sirona values that revolve around "taking it personally."

Utilising your clinical knowledge, problem solving ability, leadership skills and experience, your responsibilities will include:

Person-centred triage of referrals using telephone and/or video consultation methods in the future.
Providing advice and reassurance to patients, their relatives, friends and carers.
Raising any safeguarding or other concerns identified in compliance with the organisations policies and procedures.
Identifying service users' needs and establishing the timeframe in which care is required including those needed to help in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions or to facilitate an early discharge from hospital.
Allocating triaged referrals to the correct service and signposting to other partners as appropriate.
Supporting clinical and non-clinical colleagues within and outside of SPA through shared decision making and professional guidance.
Keeping own knowledge and skills current through a commitment to Continuous Professional Development and the timely completion of mandatory and other essential training.
Actively participating with individual and group supervision including one to ones and personal development reviews (PDR's).
Maintain complete and accurate documentation using EMIS.

About us

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it's about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more!Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details.

We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more!

Date posted

30 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

083-6676412-MP

Job locations

Warmley / Withywood / Castlewood

Withywood Centre, Queens Road

Bristol

BS13 8QA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

Sirona care & health currently recruit overseas nursing and therapy staff through an NHS Trust Supplier and we adhere to the NHSE Code of Practice in relation to applicants from Red List countries. We are therefore, unable to accept any direct applications to this advert from candidates who are not already based in the UK.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered healthcare professional with current registration with a professional body (NMC, HCPC etc).
Evidence of recent continuing professional development.

Desirable

Post-graduate training in patient assessment and/or hear and treat.

Skills & Experience

Essential

Experience within an acute or community setting.
The ability to interpret clinical information, using analytical and problem solving skills to inform decision making.
Experience of working across organisational boundaries within health, social care and mental health.
Experience of recognising and managing the deteriorating patient including an understanding of SEPSIS and NEWS2.
Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly in writing with a competent level of IT skills
Demonstrable knowledge of key clinical interventions including skin/wound care, continence, and catheter care. Medication administration, IV access and antibiotics, vaccinations and injections, mobility assessments.

Desirable

Previous experience of telephone or remote triage and consultation.
Understanding of CQC compliance and an ability to work towards required standards

Essential

Ability to travel between bases

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered healthcare professional with current registration with a professional body (NMC, HCPC etc).
Evidence of recent continuing professional development.

Desirable

Post-graduate training in patient assessment and/or hear and treat.

Skills & Experience

Essential

Experience within an acute or community setting.
The ability to interpret clinical information, using analytical and problem solving skills to inform decision making.
Experience of working across organisational boundaries within health, social care and mental health.
Experience of recognising and managing the deteriorating patient including an understanding of SEPSIS and NEWS2.
Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly in writing with a competent level of IT skills
Demonstrable knowledge of key clinical interventions including skin/wound care, continence, and catheter care. Medication administration, IV access and antibiotics, vaccinations and injections, mobility assessments.

Desirable

Previous experience of telephone or remote triage and consultation.
Understanding of CQC compliance and an ability to work towards required standards

Essential

Ability to travel between bases

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.