Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity with flexible working hours? Come and join our SPA Team!
No matter what stage in your career you are at, The Single Point of Access (SPA) is a great place for nurses and allied health professionals to develop their careers by utilising their knowledge and skills to improve patient outcomes and deliver an excellent service to those who contact our service.
As a Triage Clinician, you will be given a high degree of autonomy to reach a safe and appropriate disposition that may include providing advice and guidance, onward referral to a Sirona team or signposting to the most appropriate service for their needs, always being an advocate for the patient, SPA, own profession and for Sirona.
You will work alongside our diverse team of Triage Clinicians and health navigators who are responsible for processing the routine referrals and urgent callout requests that are received for adult patients within Sirona boundaries.
You will work alongside a compassionate leadership team who accommodate their staff. We can offer full time, part time and flexible working patterns. Hybrid working is available after your initial 6-week training.
As a SPA Triage Clinician, you will be working across the following areas:
Warmley Busines Park - South Gloucestershire
Withywood Centre - South Bristol
Castlewood - Woodspring
This is a fast paced and dynamic environment operating between the hours of 07:30 and 20:00.
In this role, you’ll be working as a SPA Triage Clinician, ensuring everyone who accesses the service receives a high quality of care that is underpinned by the Sirona values that revolve around “taking it personally.”
Utilising your clinical knowledge, problem solving ability, leadership skills and experience, your responsibilities will include:
Person-centred triage of referrals using telephone and/or video consultation methods in the future.
Providing advice and reassurance to patients, their relatives, friends and carers.
Raising any safeguarding or other concerns identified in compliance with the organisations policies and procedures.
Identifying service users’ needs and establishing the timeframe in which care is required including those needed to help in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions or to facilitate an early discharge from hospital.
Allocating triaged referrals to the correct service and signposting to other partners as appropriate.
Supporting clinical and non-clinical colleagues within and outside of SPA through shared decision making and professional guidance.
Keeping own knowledge and skills current through a commitment to Continuous Professional Development and the timely completion of mandatory and other essential training.
Actively participating with individual and group supervision including one to ones and personal development reviews (PDR’s).
Maintain complete and accurate documentation using EMIS.
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.
We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.
Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.
If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.
