111 Telephone Triage Nurse (Band 6)

Connaught Resourcing is a healthcare recruitment agency who specialise in NHS 111 and integrated urgent care services. We are partnered with Scotland's leading provider of national tele-health services recruiting for permanent Clinical Supervisors to join their service delivery team at their sites in Aberdeen, South Queensferry, Cardonald, Hillington and Clydebank and Dundee.

Are you a Registered General Nurse looking for a full or part-time job?

Are you flexible regarding the shifts you can offer and able to work evenings and weekends?

Are you looking for a new challenge in your clinical career and want to use your expert knowledge and skills to provide excellent care to patients through the specialised area of telephone and computer-based triage?

In this role you will be responsible for carrying out comprehensive telephone triage using your clinical judgement supported by computer-based clinical decision systems. You will be required to assess callers across all age-groups, with a wide variety of clinical conditions; advising them on home care management, next steps and referring them on to further care when appropriate. You will also provide clinical supervision to other members within the multi-disciplinary team.

Working on service delivery is a highly skilled and exciting role that gives you the opportunity to use and develop your assessment skills for a wide variety of patients and clinical presentations.

In order to qualify for this role, you must have the following:

• Registered as an Adult nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register
• Substantial clinical experience in a range of settings. Experience of working in a multi-professional/multi-agency environment
• Experience working in Accident & Emergency Department or Primary Care (GP, Community) where you are presented with a range of clinical presentations (desirable).
• Telephone triage experience (desirable).
• Willing and able to participate in CDSS training if required. Commitment to Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and lifelong learning.
• Critical decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills

Pay Rates:

Band 6 �37,831- �46,100 per annum + unsocial hours allowance (outlined below)

• Evenings & Saturday: Time + 30%
• Sunday & Bank Holiday: Time + 60%

Our client is predominately an out of hours employer, this means that actual earnings will include payments made for working evenings, nights, weekend shifts and public holidays.

As an example, Clinical Supervisors, on a starting salary of �37,831 working 24 or 30 hours rotas with 5 out of 8 weekends, could expect to receive estimated earning as follows:

Contracted hours

Monthly Basic Pay*

Monthly Enhancements

Monthly total*

30

�2,522

�908

�3,430

24

�2,017

�726

�2,743

* Figures shown are before deductions

Hours:

There are a variety of full and part-time contracts available. The service is predominantly of hours, shifts such as evenings and weekends will be included in the rota pattern.

You are required to attend 2 weeks of full-time classroom based training followed by a 2 week mentoring period which will be completed within your contracted hours (further information available at interview).

Our client offers the following benefits:

• 35 days annual leave (rising to 41)
• Development opportunities including study bursaries, e-learning and classroom-based courses
• Enhanced pay for working during out of hours period (see above)
• Enrolment into the Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) pension scheme
• NHS discounts on goods and services
• HELP, employee support and assistance

This is an opportunity to join an established provider of national tele-health and tele-care services on a full or part-time basis to deliver exceptional patient care.

For any queries please contact Maria on (phone number removed) or (url removed)

To apply, please submit your CV to Maria as soon as possible.

Connaught Resourcing operates as an Employment Business and an Employment Agency. We are a committed equal opportunities employer who respect and value cultural diversity. Connaught Resourcing will carry out background checks including referencing and where required an Enhanced or Standard DBS Disclosure as part of our recruitment and selection procedures.