EOC Senior Clinician inExeter and Bristol inExeter and Bristol PUBLISHED
FRI 1 NOV 2024
Additionally, the role emphasises the importance of using sound clinical judgment while utilizing decision support tools to optimize patient care and manage risks. The position encourages diverse applicants, with a focus on collaboratively fostering a robust clinical team and providing guidance to EOC staff as patient needs evolve. Duties may include clinical navigation and adjustments to workstreams to ensure quality care in response to changing demands.
As a senior clinician working within the Emergency Operations Centre, your primary role is to ensure the safe and effective clinical management of waiting patients following a call to 999 or referral from another service, ensuring that an ambulance response is prioritised for those most in need.
As an experienced triage clinician, you will be able to demonstrate your ability to recognise and respond appropriately to both individual patient risk, considering (where necessary) dynamic and sustained changes of risk within the wider waiting patient stack. You will be expected to conduct remote clinical triage to establish appropriate care pathways and self-care advice for patients. Additionally, you will provide remote clinical support and decision making to staff responders and partner agencies who are on scene with patients.
As a senior clinician, you will be expected to take on the role of 'shift lead'. As shift lead, you will be expected to plan and coordinate the allocation of work streams, adjusting them dynamically as necessary in response to changes in demand and risk profile. You will be responsible for identifying and robustly mitigating any clinical safety concerns in conjunction with the EOC Duty Officer (escalating to the Trust Incident Manager as necessary).
We are passionate about creating a diverse senior clinical team and positively encourage applications from internationally educated nurses.
Perform the function of Clinical Navigator, ensuring all incoming calls suitable for clinical navigation are reviewed and directed to the most appropriate outcome in asafe and timely manner.
Take an active role in the clinical management of patients in the waiting stack,providing assurance to broader EOC colleagues and fostering confidence in the Clinical Teams management of patient safety and risk.
Utilise a clinical decision support tool to aide in the identification of individual risk, using sound, autonomous clinical judgement to signpost inappropriate 999 callers to more appropriate health and social care providers.
Demonstrate an understanding of how wider organisational risk can impact on individual patient risk, using this knowledge to inform patient care plans and the advice offered to colleagues.
Use autonomous clinical judgement to appropriately signpost suitable patients to use alternative methods of conveyance to an appropriate healthcare facility.
Provide senior clinical advice and assistance to EOC Staff as necessary.
To undertake all work streams supported by the EOC Clinical Team, including clinical navigation, remote triage and dispatch stack safety. This not an exhaustive list and work streams may change dynamically to reflect the requirements of the role.
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