Urgent Care Practitioner

Liaising with nominated medical / nursing leadership team to provide oversight and coordination of patients awaiting contact.

Managing clinical demands incollaborationwith the Clinical Coordinator / Shift Manager to ensure delivery of safe care toagreedwaiting times.

Escalating concerns / priority patients to the Clinical Coordinator / On-call teams

Reviewing patients awaiting contact to provide oversight and minimise clinical risk byactivelyfiltering 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 are transferred safely between different clinical dispositions and signposted when required and safe clinically safe.

Providing skilled and effective assessment of patients presenting clinical need, through telephone consultation, using professional clinical judgment with thesupportof clinically based algorithms.

Liaising with nominated medical / nursing leadership team to provide oversight and coordination of patients awaiting contact.

Managing clinical demands incollaborationwith the Clinical Coordinator / Shift Manager to ensure delivery of safe care toagreedwaiting times.

Escalating concerns / priority patients to the Clinical Coordinator / On-call teams

Reviewing patients awaiting contact to provide oversight and minimise clinical risk byactivelyfiltering 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 are transferred safely between different clinical dispositions and signposted when required and safe clinically safe.

Providing skilled and effective assessment of patients presenting clinical need, through telephone consultation, using professional clinical judgment with thesupportof clinically based algorithms.

Primary Care 24 (PC24) is a not-for-profit social enterprise established in 1990, delivering NHS contracts exclusively. The majority of our surplus is reinvested in patients and staff.

We believe that primary healthcare should be accessible for everyone and arecommittedto delivering the best quality care we can, challenging social exclusion and working locally, where and when we can, tosupportour 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 a clinician with telephony triage experience? We are looking for Urgent Care Practitioners to join our out of hours team. You will provide skilled and effective assessment of patients presenting clinical need through telephone consultation, using professional clinical judgement with the support of clinically based algorithms.

Location:

Wavertree Technology Park, with hybrid available

Shifts:

Monday-Friday 6-hour shifts between the hours of 6pm-8am.

24/7 service over the weekend.

Contract:

Full and Part time positions available

What will you be doing

• Liaising with nominated medical / nursing leadership team to provide oversight and coordination of patients awaiting contact.
• Managing clinical demands incollaborationwith the Clinical Coordinator / Shift Manager to ensure delivery of safe care toagreedwaiting times.
• Escalating concerns / priority patients to the Clinical Coordinator / On-call teams
• Reviewing patients awaiting contact to provide oversight and minimise clinical risk byactivelyfiltering 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 are transferred safely between different clinical…