Senior Clinical Advisor

This is an exciting time to join us in a unique clinical role in our continually developing

Integrated Urgent Care. You will enhance your skills and knowledge in a vital role that makes a difference to the lives of hundreds of patients every day.

You will be part of our multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. As a clinical advisor, you will assess patients health and clinical needs, by utilising your professional clinical knowledge and experience with the aid of a clinical decision support tool.

Using your experience and the new skills you will learn, you will be confident in your critical thinking ability which will enable you to provide a telephone clinical assessment, ensuring our patients are signposted to the right care, at the right time, in the right place.

You willbenefitfrom an ongoing clinical training and development programme with access to online modules and CPD sessions as well as informal teams based learning.

As a clinical advisor you will be assigned to various roles when on duty. This will include telephone assessment of different typesof calls, where you willbe responsible for patient safety and providing effective outcomes.

This role requires generalist and specialist skills to assess and deliver care to patients across all age groups in a call centre environment. You will need excellent clinical and communication skills and the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.

As a Band 6 clinician you will be expected todemonstrateleadership and to act as a mentor for new colleagues, as well as providing advice to non-clinical colleagues.

You will need tohave a professional clinical qualification with an active NMC or HCPC registration with significant post qualification experience. You will need toevidencedemonstrable experience in emergency, urgent or primary care, in addition to showing competent current patient assessment skills.

Once you have completed six months post training, youmaybe eligible to apply for hybrid home / call centre working, if you meet the criteria set out in theIUCremote working policy.

Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/0? 365 days a year. Our strategy  outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:

Our care delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.

Our organisation being an increasingly inclusive, well-led, GPT Grew? talented? ... ???

• Experience in emergency,urgentor primary care within the last five years including current role (ensure that your answer details how your clinical knowledge and experience can be transferred to the telephone assessment environment)
• Demonstrate independent assessment of patients and decisions on their care and outcome
• Ability to work a mix of shiftsin order toprovide a 24/7 clinical service

• Professional clinical qualification and active registration with relevant regulator, e.g. first-level registered nurse with active NMC registration; HCPC registration
  
  Evidence of continuing professional development

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.

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working