EOC Senior Clinical Advisor inWakefield & York inWakefield & York PUBLISHED
TUE 7 JAN 2025
As a Senior Clinical Advisor, you will provide medical assessments, medication advice, and health information, while coordinating care with both internal and external clinicians. The position requires a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care within a dynamic and ambitious organisation. Interested candidates must undergo a rigorous recruitment process, including a telephone triage and multiple-choice assessment, followed by interviews for those who qualify.
Would you like to be part of the Remote Patient Care team delivering an invaluable service to the patients of Yorkshire?
Would you like to work for an ambitious and challenging organisation which will share your passion for high quality patient care?
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is now recruiting for Senior Clinical Advisors in our Emergency (999) Operations Centres based in Wakefield and York with course start dates from March 2025 onwards.
Here at Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) we have hugely exciting developments and opportunities lined up over the next few years and are looking for individuals who are highly motivated, enthusiastic and committed to assist with these changes.
The Senior Clinical Advisor is responsible for the assessment of health and clinical needs, utilising professional clinical judgement, supported by decision support software.
This requires generalist and specialist skills as a telehealth professional to assess and deliver care to patients.
Applicants should have experience in emergency care, assessment of high acuity symptoms, a broad knowledge of conditions and an understanding of red flag symptoms and consequence.
As a Senior Clinical Advisor, you will need to be able to demonstrate the following key skills:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Work with a variety of clinical specialists to ensure safe clinical processes for patients
- The ability to make quick safe clinical decisions under pressure and the ability to assess and identify red flag symptoms and conditions
- Undertake referrals to internal and external clinicians
You will provide a medical assessment, medication advice, health information and implement care packages to a range of individuals, liaising with other agencies and healthcare providers, as necessary.
About us
To be successful in this role you should be a registered professional (for example, a registered Nurse or Paramedic) and have experience of undertaking clinical assessment within an acute or primary care setting.
For full details please see the attached Job Description.
Please note: The training and mentorship period is full time.
If successful at shortlisting you will be invited to a recruitment event on the 31st January 2025. Depending on the number of applications there may be an additional date added of February 2025.
If you are invited to one of our recruitment events, candidates are expected to pass both a telephone triage and multiple choice assessment in order to progress to an interview which will be conducted on the same day.
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