Stockport Urgent Response and Rehabilitation Triage Nurse - COVID-19

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.

Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.

Our values ‘Quality and Safety, Communication, Service’ are at the heart of everything we do and come from our ‘Your Health. Our Priority’ promise. Every day they drive the behaviour and actions for every person in our organisation.

Please read the documents attached to this vacancy before applying, including the job description, person specification and the information for applicants which includes useful information to help complete your application.

Stockport Urgent Response and Rehabilitation Team (SURRT) have a 36 hr permanent vacancy for a Band 6 triage nurse. This is an exciting newly created post based with the Hub at Regent House in Stockport.

SURRT are a dynamic, community based, evolving team, aiming to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate timely discharges from hospital.

The team operate a multidisciplinary approach, providing wrap around holistic care to patients in their own home or bed based facility. The team is made up of Senior Nurses, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Senior Therapists, Social Workers and Support Workers.

The triage process is based on the Manchester Triage Assessment Tool, and using this model the post holder would telephone triage referrals and then ensure the patient is allocated to the appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team or signposted to the appropriate alternative service.

This role is pivotal to the “see and treat” ethos of the team as patients are assessed within 2 hours of referral in order to prevent an avoidable admission.

The post also entails, scheduling the clinical and social care reviews of these patients to ensure the patient is receiving the appropriate care and intervention from the team. There would be a clinical aspect to the role too depending on the service need.

SURRT offers ‘wrap around care’ involving therapy and nursing plans delivered by senior support staff, and the post holder would collaborate with the Caseload Coordinator scheduling these support visits ensuring care is safe and appropriately delivered.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £43.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.