Senior Clinical Triage Nurse / Clinical Co-ordinator (CRT)

Working as a clinical triage practitioner, receiving calls from multiple sources including North West Ambulance service . Your main aim will be to triage the calls and co-ordinate onward assessments to other members of Community React Team and other community services. Supporting team leader with day to day management tasks including supervision of junior staff.,

• To triage referrals and direct to appropriate community teams.
• To assist in admission avoidance and facilitate discharge from a hospital setting
• Actively participate in daily community response team meetings
• To facilitate the GMCAS calls and calls from paramedics and community
• Co-ordinate workload within service
  
  Significant NHS Band 6 experience is required along with A&E/community experience using telephone triage.
  
  Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

This is a permanent full time post (37.5 hours) to be worked over 7 days with shifts between 0800-2000.