I am looking for Urgent Care Practitioners for locum work. You will be required to take diverted 111 calls and clinically assess the patients in order to shorten patient wait time.

What will you be doing? Liaising with nominated medical / nursing leadership team to provide oversight and coordination of patients awaiting contact. Managing clinical demands in collaboration with the Clinical Coordinator / Shift Manager to ensure delivery of safe care to agreed waiting times. Escalating concerns / priority patients to the Clinical Coordinator / On-call teams Reviewing patients awaiting contact to provide oversight and minimise clinical risk by actively filtering for potential signposting to more appropriate services. Based around a Red Flag approach of triage, prioritise patients in line with the service escalation plans which include the elderly, palliative patients and those who have a risk of deterioration Apply clinical skills and reasoning to ensure patients are transferred safely between different clinical dispositions and signposted when required and safe clinically safe. Providing skilled and effective assessment of patients presenting clinical need, through telephone consultation, using professional clinical judgment with the support of clinically based algorithms.

Location : Wavertree Technology Park, Wavertree, Liverpool ...