Senior Clinical Advisor

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Barking; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is seeking a clinical advisor to join our Integrated Urgent Care team in Barking. You will assess patients' health and clinical needs using your professional clinical knowledge and a clinical decision support tool.

You will provide telephone clinical assessments, ensuring patients are signposted to the right care, at the right time, in the right place, and you will participate in ongoing clinical training and CPD sessions as part of our development programme.

Qualifications

• Clinical qualification and registration with a relevant professional body.
• Experience in urgent care, telephone triage or acute care settings.
• Excellent communication, decision-making and clinical judgment.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients' health and clinical needs using professional knowledge with a decision support tool.
• Provide telephone clinical assessments and determine appropriate care pathways.
• Be part of a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and participate in ongoing training.

Skills

Clinical experience

Telephone assessment

Critical thinking

Team collaboration

Education

NHS registered clinician

Tools

Clinical decision support tool

Job description

This is an exciting time to join us in a unique clinical role in our continually developingIntegrated 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 informalteams basedlearning.