# Clinical Prioritisers - North & East IToCH

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Carew House (Head Office)
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 Pro rata
- **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed term contract or Secondment Opportunity)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (To include long days, weekends and bank holidays)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12T11:05:45.150Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cornwall/Carew_House/Cornwall_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Prioritiser/Clinical_Prioritiser-v8323355
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8323355?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

North & East Integrated Transfer of Care Hub (ITOCH) Team are seeking to recruit a clinical prioritisers to coordinate the local demand and capacity, and to ensure that individuals needs are triaged, prioritised and addressed through the most appropriate resource from the multi-disciplinary and cross organisational team. We encourage applications from Band 5 staff looking to develop themselves.

The clinical prioritisers will focus on developing the service through:

- Prioritisation – locality based decision-making enables effective prioritisation of care delivery across existing team boundaries.
- Capacity – localising delivery and ensuring effective flexibility of workforce improves efficiency of service delivery
- Communication – enhanced communication speed up escalation and add flexibility to response

Please note: If you are an internal candidate and wanting to apply for this position as a secondment opportunity. Before applying, please ensure you have discussed the post with your current line manager and obtained their agreement to support your release for the duration of the secondment.

### Main duties of the job

The clinical prioritisers will work in a multi-disciplinary manner, utilising RiO to triage and process referrals, through the new STRATA system. To assist the co-ordination of demand and capacity to ensure the highest needs are prioritised and address with the most appropriate available resources from the multi disciplinary and cross organisations team.

The clinical prioritiser will provide specialised knowledge and exceptional skills in managing frailty, and intermediate care; and supporting advanced assessment and care planning to people suffering from a range of complex conditions, ensuring a seamless pathway through acute and community services.

This is a community-based role that requires frequent travel to various locations throughout the county including areas that may not be accessible by public transportation. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate how they will manage these travel requirements.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge and abilities

**Essential**

- Ability to make clinical and timely risk management decisions in sometimes challenging situations
- Knowledge of various agencies involved in healthcare inc. acute, primary, social care and voluntary sectors
- Patient care planning
- Clear understanding of clinical/social effectiveness and the need to provide evidence-based care

### Education/Qualifications/Knowledge and abilities

**Essential**

- NMC registration/AHP registration
- Clinical knowledge and experience in a community setting
- Awareness of national and local health care policies
- Professional nursing or AHP qualification at degree level
- Evidence of relevant post graduate study or substantial experience in a health care setting

**Desirable**

- Teaching or mentoring qualification

## Documents

- [autism support (pdf, 38.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=977)
- [dyslexia support (pdf, 76.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1833)
- [parental entitlement (pdf, 300.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1834)
- [jd clinical prioritiser (pdf, 680.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10645232)
- [functional requirements form (pdf, 204.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10645233)
- [recruitment complaints policy (pdf, 113.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=976)

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