Bank Telephone Triage Nurse / Paramedic
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2016
Location: Greater London
Details:
Bank Telephone Triage Nurse / Paramedic
£20.00ph weekdays, £23ph weekday overnights, £23ph weekends, £25.00ph weekend overnights
Cockfosters, London
Be the first point of contact for patients across London.
Barndoc Healthcare Limited (BHL) provides high quality primary healthcare for people living across north London. With an out of hours face-to-face GP service, advice phone line and walk-in Health Centre, we take care of thousands of people’s wellbeing.
About your role
You’ll join us at our out-of-hours service, based at Churchwood House in Cockfosters, where you’ll assess people’s health and clinical needs over the phone. Using clinical assessment software and your own professional judgement, you’ll see that they get the right medical advice or treatment. It means providing triage, medication advice and health information to all kinds of people in various emotional states. You’ll liaise with other agencies and clinicians, but ultimately be responsible for your own decisions.
About you
A Registered Paramedic, you’ll have experience and a great telephone manner. You pay attention to detail and listen with patience, with the aim of giving objective, consistent advice. You also have a team-focused approach – talking to colleagues and winning their trust. That takes strong communication skills, both in person and on paper. If you’re literate and good with figures too, you could have what it takes to join our outstanding team.
Please send CVs and a covering letter to recruitment@barndoc.nhs.uk confirming why you believe you are suitable for the role and how you meet the essential criteria including relevant skills and experience.
Closing date for applications: 22nd September 2016.
Interviews to follow soon after the closing date.
