Rotational Clinical Advisor - Secondment (Nottingham & Lincoln)

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Bulwell; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust in the East Midlands is seeking a Rotational Clinical Advisor for a 12-week secondment across Nottingham and Lincoln. NHS AfC Band 6, with full-time or part-time hours and a 37.5-hour week on a 24/7 rota.

The role covers remote assessment of Category 2 calls, clinical decision-making and collaboration with a range of clinical specialists to ensure safe patient care, with regular on-time finishes.

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse or HCPC registered paramedic required.
• 2 years post registration clinical experience
• Successful completion of any NQP period or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Remote assessment of Category 2 segmentation calls with clinical judgement and decision-support tools.
• Work with clinical specialists to ensure safe processes and timely care.
• Make quick, safe clinical decisions under pressure and undertake referrals.

Education

NMC registered Nurse or HCPC registered Paramedic

Job description

Rotational Clinical Advisor - Secondment (Nottingham & Lincoln)

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Telephone Consultation Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Secondment: 12 weeks (No change to current terms and conditions) Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Working a 24/7 rota, this includes nights, weekends and bank holiday as per rostering.) Job ref 335-A-1897-F

Site EOC Nottingham and Lincoln Town Nottingham/Lincoln Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/11/2026 23:59

We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.

The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).

Job overview

Why be a Clinical Advisor for East Midlands Ambulance Service?

• Working for us is an experience like no other. You will work within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver the right care, right time, right place to your patients.
• You will make a difference every day to patients and their families in emergency and non-emergency situations.
• You will be an autonomous clinician using your experience, knowledge and background to make key decisions to achieve the best outcome for the patient.
• Support and improve your work life balance with a regular predictable shift pattern with a scheduled finish time
• Working in the Emergency Operations Centre also offers regular on time finishes.

Applicants are encouraged to utilise the available application guidance to complete their application. Divisional recommendation will be sought as part of this process upon longlisting.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the remote assessment of Category 2 Segmentation calls to attend to their health and clinical needs, utilising professional clinical judgement, supported by decision support software. This requires specialist consultation skills as a clinician to ensure that the patient receives the most appropriate care from us.

As a Rotational 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.
• Undertake referrals to internal and external clinicians.

Working for our organisation

Why join the EOC Clinical Hub at East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust?

Working for us not only provides job satisfaction of knowing that what you do makes a real difference to our patients, but working as a Rotational Clinical Advisor also offers the following benefits:

• A fantastic opportunity to enhance your clinical skills through a dedicated training and support package.
• Gain vital experience for future career development opportunities in senior clinical roles.
• Expenses paid in line with the Travel and Expenses Policy.
• No disruption to your current working pattern (unless specifically requested by the candidate).
• A healthy work life balance with shifts designed for regular on-time finishes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Successful candidates will conduct telephone consultations for Category 2 calls, assessing whether alternative care options are more suitable.

This is supported by the available job description and person specifications.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NMC registered Nurse or HCPC registered Paramedic

Experience

• 2 years post registration clinical experience

Professional Development

• Successfully completed any NQP period or equivalent

The East Midlands has a lot to offer:

Making a Difference

Action Packed Roles

Support and Belonging

Accessibility

If you have any accessibility requirements at any point during the recruitment process, then please contact the recruiting manager.

If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.

Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer,committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.

We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.

Our Vision -Respondingto patient needs in the right way,developingour organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, andcollaboratingto improve wider healthcare.

Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.

Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (Al l spent and unspent convictions must declared).

If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £46.88.

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