Job Introduction
Are you a 1st Level Registered Nurse/Paramedic with 3 years post qualification experience? Are you looking for the flexibility of a bank contract that can work around your other commitments? Primary Care 24 (PC24) are excited to share the position of Bank Urgent Care Practitioner (UCP).
Salary: £19.15 - £36.79 per hour
Location: Wavertree Technology Park, Wavertree, Liverpool
What will I be doing?
- Liaising with nominated medical / nursing leadership team to provide oversight and coordination of patients awaiting contact.
- Managing clinical demands in collaboration with the Clinical Coordinator / Shift Manager to ensure delivery of safe care to agreed waiting times.
- Escalating concerns / priority patients to the Clinical Coordinator / On-call teams
- Reviewing 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 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 the support of clinically based algorithms.
Shifts Available
- Friday: 18:30 - 23:00
- Saturday & Sunday: 08:00 - 13:00, 13:00 - 18:00, 18:00 - 23:00
- Friday, Saturday & Sunday nights: 23:00 - 08:00
You could have a blend of in hours and out of hours to ensure you achieve a comfortable work-life balance.
What do I need?
- Extensive experience in emergency health care settings
- Significant expertise in clinical triage
- Degree Clinical Practice
- Minimum 3 years post qualification experience
- Clinical Examination and Diagnostics Level 6 / 7 is desirable but not essential
- Experience of working in urgent care / primary care or similar setting
About Us
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 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.
What's on Offer?
- £19.15 - £36.79 per hour
- Bank Worker Agreement where you can view and select the shifts that suit you
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Eligibility to apply for the blue Light card
We offer innovative models for telephone triage and telephone consultations based in our modern contact centre, working as part of an MDT – including experienced GP’s, GPs in training, Advanced Clinical Practitioners from a Nursing, Paramedic, AHP and Pharmacy background. Providing initial clinical assessment / triage for patients entering the service from NHS111 / Clinical assessment service (CAS), NWAS, healthcare professionals and primary care streaming.
