Triage and Unplanned Care Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Home or remote working
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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Role summary
This role involves triaging incoming referrals to assess patient needs, determine care priority, and process referrals. The nurse will deliver high standards of healthcare to patients in their homes, care homes, and clinics, including assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care packages. The position also requires undertaking unplanned nursing care and supporting catheter clinics in the community. The ideal candidate will be a well-motivated team player with excellent communication skills and a good understanding of IT systems.
Essential criteria
- Must hold full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle
- Good IT and keyboard skills
- Current NMC Registration
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of working with patients with multiple pathologies and delivering care plans to meet their needs
Desirable criteria
- Experience in working within a community setting
- Skills and Knowledge
- Highly motivated
- Able to provide high standards of care
- Tact and Diplomacy
- Empathy and sensitivity
- Ability to use own initiative
- Good observational and reporting skills
- Ability to manage stressful situations
- Concentrate when undertaking patient care and inputting data / patient records
- Good time management skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Team Player
- Work flexibly to accommodate patient / service needs
- Knowledge of additional specialist areas through in-house training and short courses including palliative care, LTCs and diabetes management
- Communication
- Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language
- Personal and People Development
- Evidence of relevant experience and development
- Support other staff
- Willing to undertake appropriate training
- Personal Attributes / Behaviours (linked to the Trust's Behaviour Framework)
- Able to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults.
- Self awareness
- Enthusiastic and able to work under pressure
- Other
- Must hold full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle
- Good IT and keyboard skills
- Current NMC Registration
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of working with patients with multiple pathologies and delivering care plans to meet their needs
- Experience in working within a community setting
- Skills and Knowledge
- Highly motivated
- Able to provide high standards of care
- Tact and Diplomacy
- Empathy and sensitivity
- Ability to use own initiative
- Good observational and reporting skills
- Ability to manage stressful situations
- Concentrate when undertaking patient care and inputting data / patient records
- Good time management skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Team Player
- Work flexibly to accommodate patient / service needs
- Knowledge of additional specialist areas through in-house training and short courses including palliative care, LTCs and diabetes management
- Communication
- Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language
- Personal and People Development
- Evidence of relevant experience and development
- Support other staff
- Willing to undertake appropriate training
- Personal Attributes / Behaviours (linked to the Trust's Behaviour Framework)
- Able to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults.
- Self awareness
- Enthusiastic and able to work under pressure
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 20d
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East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Triage and Unplanned Care Nurse
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
A vacancy has arisen within the Triage Team for the West Place and to support unplanned nursing care and catheter clinics in the community. The applicant should ideally have excellent communication skills with a good understanding of IT systems. Previous Community Nursing experience would be beneficial for this position.
We are looking for a well-motivated team player who will be expected to work in a busy environment and able to meet the demands of this hard-working service. Support and any additional training would be provided to ensure competency and skills are maintained.
If you think you would be good fit for this role, apply now!
The funding for this post is for 7 months at present, this is likely to extend or become substantive.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
To triage incoming referrals assessing the patient's needs, determining the priority of care and processing the referrals accordingly. To contribute in the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their own homes, care homes, the travelling community and in clinics, by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating packages of care. The position will require visiting patients in their own environment to provide unp
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