Urgent Care Practitioners

PE Global are working with a primary care service based in Wavertree, Liverpool who are looking for Urgent Care Practitioners to support their out of hours service.

The service offers an innovative model for telephone triage and telephone consultations based in their modern contact centre, were you will work as part of an MDT.

Duties:

• 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

What do I need?
• Extensive experience in emergency health care settings
• Significant expertise in clinical triage
• 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