Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Triage Nurse
The closing date is 14 July 2025
Compassionate, creative & self-motivated mental health nurses are required to help us continue to offer a truly great assessment, signposting and short-term treatment service.
Our nurses, some of whom are Non-Medical Prescribers (NMP), work across the county in local teams. Community experience is not essential as we provide strong training and mentoring support.
We require forward thinking individuals who have an interest in working in a Primary Care context within local GP Surgeries and other Primary Care Teams, offering assessment, consultation and support to General Practice staff and colleagues in the voluntary and third sector.Our nurses provide assessment and signposting to other community services based on health promotion, recovery and socially inclusive principles.
Before Covid we were working from GP surgeries and providing both face to face and telephone assessments. As with most jobs during the pandemic, a flexible approach to managing your work is essential, things can change quickly. We are currently working face to face and remotely.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a senior member of the team working with service users across the Strategic Service Units who have a common and severe mental health. The purpose of this role is to:
* Provide assessment and implementation of brief evidence-based interventions for service users who are experiencing common, acute mental health and recovery needs covering cluster 1-3 some of 4 ,8 and 11
* Optimise the service users' ability to remain in the community and / or be cared for in the least restrictive environment in line with the principles or recovering and social inclusion and the 10 essential capabilities
* Support clinical governance, information collection and audit at entry level
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job responsibilities
As an autonomous worker you will be using your initiative when decision making around which services will best serve your patient.You will be a qualified Mental Health Nurse (Registered and Revalidated with the NMC) and have experience of first line assessments, including risk assessment.
You might be, or are interested in becoming a non-medical prescriber. We are able to support training as an NMP.Participating in supervision and mentoring nursing students is a key part of this role.
The Trust aims to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services. It is the Trusts view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.
Person Specification
NMC Registration
* NMC Registration - Qualified Mental Health Nurse
* Community Mental Health Experience
* Awareness of short term interventions
* Community service involvement
Driving Licence
* Has a valid UK driving Licence
* Has business insurance and car
* Experience of mentoring students
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum (pro rata)
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