Bank - Night Clinical Streamer Band 6

This is a bank Night Clinical Streamer post in NELFT’s Urgent Care Centre service. The post provides clinical streaming, assessment and nursing care, directing patients to the appropriate urgent, acute or primary care service. The centre operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and cares for patients of all ages; this post involves night shifts. It requires NMC registration and significant post-registration experience in an Urgent Care setting.

• Stream patients entering the Urgent Care Centre to a GP, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Accident and Emergency or primary care service
• Carry out full physical assessments, including first-line diagnostics, and assess physical and psychosocial needs
• Agree a comprehensive care plan with patients when required
• Refer patients safely to hospital specialist areas, following relevant pathways and policies
• Provide nursing care within competence, including wound care, medication administration and observation monitoring
• Observe, record and report changes to a senior clinician promptly according to acuity and urgency
• Work autonomously and remain professionally and legally accountable for clinical practice, following applicable standards and guidelines
• Provide timely care for new or changing presentations
• Lead the team on allocated shifts and support the Senior Practitioner with clinical work and daily operational management
• Work collaboratively with partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners in the multidisciplinary team
• Use nursing knowledge and interventions to promote health and help prevent illness

• NMC registration

• Significant post-registration experience in an Urgent Care setting
• Interagency and collaborative working

• Basic understanding of diagnostics and red flags
• Basic physical assessment skills
• Knowledge of medication administration and wound care
• Knowledge of health promotion and illness prevention
• Understanding of the roles of health and social care practitioners

• Availability for night shifts