Triage Nurse

Job overview

CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!    Are you passionate about delivering high quality care in the community? Do you enjoy working collaboratively to support people to stay well in their own homes? If so, we’d love you to join our team.   We are looking for a motivated and compassionate Triage Nurse to join our Community Nursing Team. Working under the guidance of the Community Nurse Team Lead and Deputy Team Lead, you will play an essential role in providing skilled community nursing triage interventions to patients across a variety of community settings.   In this role, you will: •    Provide skilled community nursing triage, responding to referrals and assessing patient needs using a holistic, person centred approach. •    Support the delivery of safe, effective and seamless nursing care for housebound patients. •    Coordinate care proactively to help people remain well at home and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions or moves to long term care. •    Empower individuals with long term conditions through education, support and facilitating self care for patients. •    Contribute to health promotion, innovative projects and service improvements that enhance patient experience and patient service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Within this role, the post holder will provide skilled nursing care, based on principles of best practice and clinical evidence which includes:  Chronic disease management, end of life care, continence promotion and wound management. Specific skills include phlebotomy, administration of medication via syringe drivers and intravenous therapy, PEG management, urinary catheterisation and tracheostomy suctioning.

You would act as a Named Nurse with the support and supervision of the DN Team Lead. To take continued responsibility for the holistic health needs assessment including triage, signposting, appropriate implementation of health care and ensuring continuity of care following referral from acute care, rehabilitation units, GPs and other agencies.

Undertake comprehensive remote assessment of the physical, psychological and social care needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process and including the needs of carers. To provide individualised and person-centred care plans that provide monitoring and promotion of self-care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.

You would act as the patient’s advocate and facilitate the patient’s own choices with regard to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care.

Have the ability to identify and record new problems and other relevant information reporting back to the Team Lead or Deputy Team lead as appropriate.

Maintain accurate, comprehensive and contemporaneous records in accordance with Trust and NMC guidelines.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.