DIUCS Senior Clinician - Nurse / Paramedic

NHS; New Forest; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Clinician to join their Integrated Urgent Care Service. The role involves providing clinical support, mentoring staff, and conducting assessments, with opportunities for professional development. This position offers flexibility in work hours and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Registered to degree/diploma level with relevant specialist training.
• Recent professional development evidenced in portfolio.
• Membership of relevant Professional Body.

Responsibilities

• Conduct holistic, patient-centered clinical assessments via phone.
• Provide clinical support and advice to Health Advisor team.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff.

Skills

Clinical Reasoning Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

Registered Practitioner

Post Registration Diploma Level

Job description

Go back Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust

DIUCS Senior Clinician - Nurse / Paramedic

The closing date is 09 July 2025

Are you an experienced nurse or paramedic, looking to develop your skills and knowledge? Dorset Integrated Urgent Care Service (DIUCS) would like to hear from you.

As a Clinical Assessment and Treatment Centre Senior Clinician, based at our site in St. Leonards, you will be part of a team of clinicians providing visible clinical support to our Health Advisors and wider clinical teams during hours of operation; leading by example as an effective Clinician is essential within this role.

DIUCS are committed to the development of our clinical teams and offer a range of accredited University modules and in house training to enhance skills and knowledge. Successful completion would put you in a great position to apply for exciting clinical roles within the service.

Calls will be directed to you when patients require clinical advice, by using a combination of your clinical experience and our Pathways Clinical Consultation System (PaCCS software, you'll ensure the patient receives the most suitable treatment tailored to their needs. Treatment can range from self-care and advice to referring patients to other services.)

The role of Clinical Assessment and Treatment Centre Senior Clinician benefits from 24/7 rotas and enhanced shift allowance for evenings, weekends and public holidays. Full and part time opportunities are available.

Main duties of the job

DIUCS brings together NHS 111, a clinical assessment and treatment service including mobile clinical visiting services, urgent treatment centres, minor injuries units, and a single point of access for professionals, integrating these elements, presents the opportunity for more people to receive seamless urgent advice and/or care, and reduce the strain on primary care, our EDs and the 999 service.

You will undertake high quality, holistic, patient centred clinical assessments of patients via the telephone, which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity.

Provide an excellent standard of clinical practice including safely managing the call back queues through the systems, providing clinical support and advice to our non-clinical Health Advisor team and specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients. Plan, implement and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings. Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students, trained practitioners and non-clinical colleagues.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.

Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.

About us

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots ofways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

Job responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do [e-mail]

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TRAINING

• Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
• Membership of the relevant Professional Body
• Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
• Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
• Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role

JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE

• Experience at Practitioner Band 5 level
• Experience of specialist working
• Experience of managing change
• Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
• Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
• Recent previous experience within a comparable role

MANAGERIAL/SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE

• Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
• Experience of devising and delivering training

PERSONAL QUALITIES/ATTRIBUTES

• Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills.
• Experience of planning and organising complex activities, e.g. organise own time and that of junior staff and learners, planning off duty rotas and undertaking discharge planning involving co-ordination with other agencies.
• Ability to use own initiative within sphere of authority

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.

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearp.a., pro rata for part time