Urgent Care Clinician (UCC) inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED 17 MAY 2024

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Are you a Registered Nurse or Paramedic Practitioner with urgent careexperience? Are you looking to join a growing social enterprise that can offer greatbenefits including an NHS pension and NHS car fleet scheme?

Are you available towork Friday 6.30pm-11pm, Saturday 10am-10pm and Sunday 8am-8pm? Primary Care 24 (PC24) are excited to sharethe position of Urgent Care Clinician (UCC) on a part time,permanent basis.

Asa RegisteredNurse or Paramedic Practitioner, you will have extensiveexperience in emergency health care settings, significant expertise in clinicaltriage and the ability to assess the needs of patients referred for care whohave reached a range of dispositions from NHS111, to the Out of Hours service.

Main duties of the job

• Develop and sustain productive workingrelationships with colleagues to provide clinical support to Clinical Advisorsand Call Centre Managers on shift, ensuring safe effective working.
• Reviewpatients awaiting contact to provide oversight and minimise clinical risk byactively filtering for potential signposting to more appropriate services.
• Basedaround a Red Flag approach of triage, prioritise patients in line with theservice escalation plans which include the elderly, palliative patients andthose who have a risk of deterioration.
• Applyclinical skills and reasoning to ensure patients and transferred safely betweendifferent clinical dispositions and signposting when required and safe to doso.
• Lead shift safety huddles to provideupdates and information to clinical teams. Acting assingle point of contact and oversight for referrals and co-ordination ofpatients awaiting contact
• Liaise with nominatedmedical/nursing leadership team to provide oversight and co-ordination ofpatients awaiting contact.
• Undertake robust clinicaltriage and allocate to appropriate clinical teams based on available skill mix.
• Identify high risk groups or patientswho may need escalation based on their clinical priority.

About us

PrimaryCare 24 (PC24) is a not-for-profit social enterprise established in 1990,delivering NHS contracts exclusively.

Much of oursurplus is reinvested in patients and staff. We believe that primary healthcareshould be accessible for everyone and are committed to delivering the bestquality care we can, challenging social exclusion and working locally, whereand when we can, to support our communities. We combine the best of the NHSwith social enterprise innovation, developing solutions for NHS primary careand caring for our clinicians so that they can, in turn, care for our patients.

Job description

Job responsibilities


About you

• Registered Nurses or a Paramedic Practitioner
• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics Level 7
• Safeguarding Adults Level 3
• Safeguarding Children Level 3
• Available to work every Friday evening and weekend
• Experienced in emergency health care settings
• Expert in clinical triage

Whats on offer?

• Permanent part time opportunity
• £18.15ph to £41.07ph (DOE and shift times)
• Pay range includes unsociable enhancements
• Located in Wavertree Technology Park, L21
• NHS pension scheme
• 27 days annual leave based on 37.5 hours
• Continue Professional Development
• Clinical Supervision
• NHS car fleet scheme T&C apply
• Ride to work scheme
• Long service rewards

Hours

• Friday 6.30pm to 11pm
• Saturday 10am to 10pm
• Sunday 8am to 8pm

Job description
Job responsibilities


About you

• Registered Nurses or a Paramedic Practitioner
• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics Level 7
• Safeguarding Adults Level 3
• Safeguarding Children Level 3
• Available to work every Friday evening and weekend
• Experienced in emergency health care settings
• Expert in clinical triage

Whats on offer?

• Permanent part time opportunity
• £18.15ph to £41.07ph (DOE and shift times)
• Pay range includes unsociable enhancements
• Located in Wavertree Technology Park, L21
• NHS pension scheme
• 27 days annual leave based on 37.5 hours
• Continue Professional Development
• Clinical Supervision
• NHS car fleet scheme T&C apply
• Ride to work scheme
• Long service rewards

Hours

• Friday 6.30pm to 11pm
• Saturday 10am to 10pm
• Sunday 8am to 8pm

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• UK Registered Nurse or Paramedic Practitioner

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience in emergency health care settings, significant expertise in clinical triage and the ability to assess the needs of patients referred for care who have reached a range of dispositions from NHS 111, to the Out of Hours service.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• UK Registered Nurse or Paramedic Practitioner

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience in emergency health care settings, significant expertise in clinical triage and the ability to assess the needs of patients referred for care who have reached a range of dispositions from NHS 111, to the Out of Hours service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Employer details

Employer name

Primary Care 24
Address

4-6 Enterprise Way

Wavertree Technology Park

Liverpool

Merseyside

L13 1FB

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