Bank- Night Clinical Streamer

Overview

The post holder will be expected to work as a senior clinician collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services within an Urgent Care setting in a widely diverse locality. The Urgent Care Centre provides a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts, where appropriate and operationally required with the aim to avoid hospital admission through clinical assessment or streaming to primary care/acute services when possible. Patient needs adhere to all ages. The post holder will be a NMC Registered Nurse responsible for the appropriate clinical streaming of patients attending the Urgent Care Centre and being professionally and legally accountable for effective streaming of patients into acute and community services. The post holder will be able to carry out a full physical assessment including all first line diagnostics. He/she is expected to demonstrate and apply a broad range of nursing knowledge, interventions and skills. Knowledge of the principles of health promotion and preventing illness will be fundamental as will having a comprehensive understanding of the roles of others in health and social care. The post holder will lead the team for allocated shifts and provide support to the Senior Practitioner, both clinically and in terms of daily operational management.

1. Provide effective clinical streaming for patients entering the Urgent Care Centre to see a GP, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Accident and Emergency services and primary care services.
2. To work as an autonomous practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of their professional and clinical work, within agreed national local and professional standards and guidelines and provide timely care for changing or new presentations of needs.
3. To safely and effectively refer to specialist areas within the hospital setting and being aware of pathways and policies.
4. Provide nursing care within own level of competencies for effective wound care, medication administration and observation monitoring.
5. To use enhanced skills and knowledge to assess the physical and psychosocial needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with the patient when required.
6. Observe, record and report all changes to senior clinician in a timely manner, depending on acuity and urgency.
7. Awareness of current evidence-based approaches to patient care and demonstrates this in practice.
8. Give accurate and comprehensive hand over to team members at each shift change, ensuring that pertinent information, consideration, acute presentations etc., are fully disseminated to colleagues.
9. Work in partnership with the patient to achieve optimum levels of self-care until primary care can review patient.

Working for our organisation

The post holder will be expected to support their team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust\’s Values in their day to day work. These are the 5P\’s:

• Putting people first
• Prioritising quality
• Being progressive, innovative and continually improve
• Being professional and honest
• Promoting what is possible – independence, opportunity and choice

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a \’Top 10 Family Friendly Employer\’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that\’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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Join us

Joining #TeamNELFT means you\’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We\’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT. Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video