Triage Nurse - Community Nursing | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 9YQ |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6343308/432-HR399-24 |
Summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic Registered Nurse to join our Community Nursing Service in North East Essex Community. In this role, you will play a vital part in delivering high-quality healthcare to patients within their own homes as part of a multidisciplinary team. The aim is to promote self-management and independence in daily activities, ensuring patients receive the support they need.
As a Registered Triage Nurse within our Community Nursing Service, your main aim is to provide telephone triage to all referrals and contact to the community nursing service. You will play a critical role in assessing patients’ health conditions and determining the urgency of their care.
Interviewing Patients: Conduct thorough interviews with patients to gather information about their medical history and current symptoms.
· Triage Priority Assignment: Based on the interview and examination findings, assign a triage priority to patients, ensuring the most urgent cases are addressed promptly.
· Communication: Coordinate with physicians, nurses, and other care team members regarding patients’ statuses, ensuring seamless transitions of care.
· Health Information Updates: Update patient health information systems with relevant notes, ensuring accurate and up-to-date records.
· Staying Current: Keep up-to-date with advancements in community nursing and best practices to ensure high-quality care delivery.
· Adherence to Standards: Follow infection control, sanitation, patient safety, and confidentiality standards to maintain a safe and secure environment for patients and staff.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024