Job summary
Salus is a GP Federation which was formed by
the local GP practices within North East Hampshire and Farnham. This Includes practices located in Aldershot,
Farnborough, Fleet, Farnham & Yateley.
We hold several contracts supporting primary care to deliver services on
behalf of those practices, helping them work better together and with other
healthcare providers leading to improved patient services and developing new
ones due to constant changes in the Primary Care environment.
We also assist practices with admin,
operational and HR support and facilitate shared learning across
localities. By engaging with the public,
we also help ensure that services are designed and developed with patient and
public involvement.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
& psycho-social triage, supported by robust protocol and clinical templates.
This will include a high level of rapid, fast and routine pace communication,
over the telephone, virtually via Microsoft Teams and by email.
Support
and input to care planning and collaborative decision making alongside
community service colleagues including Urgent Community Response Teams,
Intermediate Care Teams, Community Nurses, Mental Health Practitioners,
Specialist Nurses, Community-Based Therapy Teams, Social Prescribers, Adult
Social Care, Hospice Services and Home Visiting Paramedic Practitioners
This
role is for 16 hours per week, this will be on set days as follows: Monday 12pm
8pm; Tuesday 8am 12pm & one other morning (8am 12pm) of your choice.
About us
Salus
Medical Services Limited is a federation of 21 GP practices operating in the
North East Hampshire and Farnham Clinical Commissioning Group area. We aim to
stabilise, sustain, and shape plans for primary care and provide a unified
voice for healthcare. The organisation is dedicated to enhancing patient care
and improving the health of the local population whilst developing the core of
current primary care services to enable a greater provision of proactive,
personalised and coordinated health and social care.
We
are seeking a compassionate and motivated nurse to work as part of our team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will
solely involve the triaging of referrals into the community system and Integrated
Care Team via the Community Single Point of Access.
This will include:
- Clinical and
psychosocial triage of incoming referrals and points of contact from a broad
range of practitioners; and patients
- Collaborative
joint triage, where appropriate, with colleagues across health and social care
- Telephone
psychosocial triage of patients over the telephone, where appropriate, to
establish baseline needs and urgency.
- Chairing &
coordinating the daily multidisciplinary virtual huddle. This short meeting
consists of duty practitioners across core stakeholder partner organisations,
where effective communication and decision making is platformed to support
those patients at highest risk of possible admission
- Liaise with relatives, carers, and health care
professionals to prevent and minimise the risk of
acute hospital admission where appropriate, working in partnership with
secondary care discharge co-ordinating services.
- The post holder
will:
- Be autonomous in
practice
-
Ensure resources
are utilised in a cost-effective manner
-
Ensure all
professional/clinical practices are in line with Salus policies
-
Ensure
appropriate and accurate records are maintained
-
Be accountable
for own professional actions according to NMC Code of Professional Code
-
Maintain your Continuous
Professional Development according to NMC Code of Professional Code and
Revalidation requirements
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will
solely involve the triaging of referrals into the community system and Integrated
Care Team via the Community Single Point of Access.
This will include:
- Clinical and
psychosocial triage of incoming referrals and points of contact from a broad
range of practitioners; and patients
- Collaborative
joint triage, where appropriate, with colleagues across health and social care
- Telephone
psychosocial triage of patients over the telephone, where appropriate, to
establish baseline needs and urgency.
- Chairing &
coordinating the daily multidisciplinary virtual huddle. This short meeting
consists of duty practitioners across core stakeholder partner organisations,
where effective communication and decision making is platformed to support
those patients at highest risk of possible admission
- Liaise with relatives, carers, and health care
professionals to prevent and minimise the risk of
acute hospital admission where appropriate, working in partnership with
secondary care discharge co-ordinating services.
- The post holder
will:
- Be autonomous in
practice
-
Ensure resources
are utilised in a cost-effective manner
-
Ensure all
professional/clinical practices are in line with Salus policies
-
Ensure
appropriate and accurate records are maintained
-
Be accountable
for own professional actions according to NMC Code of Professional Code
-
Maintain your Continuous
Professional Development according to NMC Code of Professional Code and
Revalidation requirements
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A) Qualified Nurse with wider experience to include a Community or Secondary Care role, or experience of community care coordination within a Primary Care Setting, is preferable, but not essential.
- B) Excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.
- C) Previous experience of EMIS is desirable, but not essential.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A) Qualified Nurse with wider experience to include a Community or Secondary Care role, or experience of community care coordination within a Primary Care Setting, is preferable, but not essential.
- B) Excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.
- C) Previous experience of EMIS is desirable, but not essential.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
