Clinical Prioritisers

**Clinical Prioritisers**:
**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Clinical Prioritiser
- **Grade**
- Band 6
- **Contract**
- Permanent: Working 7 days per week covering 8am - 8pm service
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week (To include long days, weekends and bank holidays)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-141**Site**
- Luxstowe House
- **Town**
- Liskeard
- **Salary**
- £33,706 - £40,588 Per Annum / Pro Rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 06/02/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
North and East Cornwall are seeking to recruit to clinical prioritisers to work within the Transfer of Care Hubs to coordinate the local demand and capacity, and to ensure that individuals needs are triaged, prioritised and addressed through the most appropriate resource from the multi-disciplinary and cross organisational team.

This is a pinnacle role when ensuring care is delivered in the right place by the right person.

We have a vacancy for a Allied Health Professional and or a Nurse Professional.

The clinical prioritisers will focus on developing the service through:

- ** **Prioritisation - locality based decision-making enables effective prioritisation of care delivery across existing team boundaries.
- ** **Capacity - localising delivery and ensuring effective flexibility of workforce improves efficiency of service delivery
- ** **Communication - enhanced communication speed up escalation and add flexibility to response

**Main duties of the job**:
The clinical prioritisers will work in a multi-disciplinary manner, utilising the Single Electronic Referral System (SERS) and RiO to triage and process referrals, assist the co-ordination of demand and capacity to ensure the highest needs are prioritised and address with the most appropriate available resources from the multi disciplinary and cross organisations team.

The clinical prioritiser will provide specialised knowledge and exceptional skills in managing frailty, and intermediate care; and supporting advanced assessment and care planning to people suffering from a range of complex conditions, ensuring a seamless pathway through acute and community services.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in communi