Bank - Night Clinical Streamer

Job summary

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 expected to work as a senior clinician collaboratively with key partnerorganisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multidisciplinaryteam in delivering services within an Urgent Care setting in a widely diverse locality.

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 linediagnostics. 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 illnesswill be fundamental as will having a comprehensive understanding of the roles of others inhealth and social care. The post holder will lead the team for allocated shifts and providesupport to the Senior Practitioner, both clinically and in terms of daily operational management.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide effective clinical streaming for patients entering the Urgent Care Centre to see aGP, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Accident and Emergency services and primary careservices.2. To work as an autonomous practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable forall aspects of their professional and clinical work, within agreed national local andprofessional standards and guidelines and provide timely care for changing or newpresentations of needs.3. To safely and effectively refer to specialist areas within the hospital setting and beingaware 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 needsand develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with the patient whenrequired.6. Observe record and report all changes to senior clinician in a timely manner, dependingon acuity and urgency.7. Awareness of current evidence based approaches to patient care and demonstrates thisin practice.8. Give accurate and comprehensive hand over to team members at each shift change,ensuring that pertinent information, consideration, acute presentations etc, are fullydisseminated to colleagues.

About us

We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:

• Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay;
• Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay;
• My Trust Benefits discount scheme;
• Access to the NHS pension scheme;
• Paid mandatory training;
• Opportunities for locally agreed training;
• PAMOVA training for Mental Health staff;
• Flexibility of hours/location;
• Priority over agency staff for booking shifts;
• Free uniform;
• Opportunity to apply for permanent posts.

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Various

London & Essex

IG3 8XJ

Employer's website

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Various

London & Essex

IG3 8XJ

Employer's website

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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