Band 5 NMC Registered Nurse

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and engaging Band 5 NMC Registered Nurse, who has a distinct passion for delivering high‑quality patient care within community services. You will be joining our North Alliance LAP Service on a full‑time basis to provide remote triage of calls and referrals made to the North community nursing teams. As a triage staff nurse you will be expected to have professional and clinical knowledge of community nursing.

Whilst not providing regular face to face patient contact you will need to maintain an up to date knowledge of the clinical aspects of community nursing in order to resolve clinical queries over the phone and to enable effective remote assessment and clinical triage. To ensure a high standard of care is provided, occasional delivery of care to patients in a community setting will be required to maintain up to date clinical experience.

You will be based at Weaver House, Cheadle. Due to the nature of this role shifts are 7‑3 pm, 9‑5 pm or 10‑6 pm covering 7 days a week, making appropriate decisions following comprehensive remote triage to ensure the safe management, and allocation visits where needed, in response to calls and referrals received by the community nursing service.

• Determine eligibility of patients referred to the service and collect additional information to support decision making. Transfer or redirect referrals to appropriate internal or external services as appropriate.
• Liaise with patients, families, carers and other service providers to support clinical decision making to identify appropriate management of referrals and messages. Provide advice on self‑management; transfer to other services or add contacts for home visits or clinic appointments.
• Liaise with nurse in charge of the appropriate nursing team to allocate urgent visits and discuss potentially complex referrals.
• Review all referrals and messages to the community nursing service, understanding the following areas of care:
  • Symptom management of deteriorating patients.
  • Palliative and end‑of‑life care.
  • Wound care.
  • Bladder catheter and bowel care.
  • Recognition of deteriorating patients and potentially life‑threatening conditions.
  • Complex patients with co‑morbidities.

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme.
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Options for flexible working.
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Extensive health and wellbeing support and resources.
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
• Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres). Your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2 k.
• Free car parking at all trust sites.
• Free flu vaccinations every year.
• Citizens Advice support linked with a hardship fund for one‑off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
• And more.

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like‑minded people. Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.