Urgent Care Clinician (UCC)
Primary Care 24
Urgent Care Clinician (UCC)
£85426
Primary Care 24, Liverpool
- Part time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 18 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 9f1ee718ebe14d818b3e28ac279aa96c
Full Job Description
- Develop and sustain productive working relationships with colleagues to provide clinical support to Clinical Advisors and Call Centre Managers on shift, ensuring safe effective working.
- Review patients awaiting contact to provide oversight and minimise clinical risk by actively filtering for potential signposting to more appropriate services.
- Based around a Red Flag approach of triage, prioritise patients in line with the service escalation plans which include the elderly, palliative patients and those who have a risk of deterioration.
- Apply clinical skills and reasoning to ensure patients and transferred safely between different clinical dispositions and signposting when required and safe to do so.
- Lead shift safety huddles to provide updates and information to clinical teams. Acting as single point of contact and oversight for referrals and co-ordination of patients awaiting contact
- Liaise with nominated medical/nursing leadership team to provide oversight and co-ordination of patients awaiting contact.
- Undertake robust clinical triage and allocate to appropriate clinical teams based on available skill mix.
- Identify high risk groups or patients who may need escalation based on their clinical priority.
Are you a Registered Nurse or Paramedic Practitioner with urgent care experience? Are you looking to join a growing social enterprise that can offer great benefits including an NHS pension and NHS car fleet scheme?, As a Registered Nurse or Paramedic Practitioner, you will have extensive experience in emergency health care settings, significant expertise in clinical triage and the ability to assess the needs of patients referred for care who have reached a range of dispositions from NHS111, to the Out of Hours service.
Primary Care 24 (PC24) is a not-for-profit social enterprise established in 1990, delivering NHS contracts exclusively.
Much of our surplus is reinvested in patients and staff. We believe that primary healthcare should be accessible for everyone and are committed to delivering the best quality care we can, challenging social exclusion and working locally, where and when we can, to support our communities. We combine the best of the NHS with social enterprise innovation, developing solutions for NHS primary care and caring for our clinicians so that they can, in turn, care for our patients.
Are you available to work Friday 6.30pm-11pm, Saturday 10am-10pm and Sunday 8am-8pm? Primary Care 24 (PC24) are excited to share the position of Urgent Care Clinician (UCC) on a part time, permanent basis., £18.15 to £41.07 an hour Pay range includes unsociable enhancements