Nurse/ Paramedic Clinical Advisor (Nottinghamshire)
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
Come and join us
Your skills and experience are vital in delivering outstanding patient centred care to the 4.8 million people we serve in the East Midlands.
Why be a Clinical Advisor for East Midlands Ambulance Service?- Working for us is an experience like no other, to 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 have countless opportunities to progress; enjoy continuous professional development, helping you to develop your skills, gain new ones, and career progression.
- You will be an autonomous clinician using your experience, knowledge and background to make key decisions to achieve the best outcome for the patient.
- With annual reviews and the support of our team, you will have career potential that matches your ambitions.
- Support and improve your work life balance with a regular predictable shift pattern with a scheduled finish time
- Working in the emergency operations centre offers regular on time finishes.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the remote assessment of 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 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 we offer a range of other great benefits too. We offer:
- Flexible approach to working patterns, we understand the importance of a work life balance and have a wide selection of rotas for part-time and full-time staff.
- Pay enhancements for out of hours, shift and overtime working, career and salary progression and annual personal development review.
- We are a uniformed service and uniform will be provided.
- Expert training and support from our dedicated in-house clinical education team.
- Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
- Regular shift pattern with scheduled meal breaks.
- Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
- Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
- NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.
- Childcare vouchers.
- Cycle to work scheme up to £3500.
- Peer to Peer support networks.
- An exceptional place to work to provide high-quality emergency care to save lives and make a difference to people with life-threatening illnesses or injuries.
- A first-class employer, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion of our employees.
- Free on-site car parking
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities of the post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures and practices of the Trust, which may be amended from time to time. Patient Safety is a key priority for the Trust.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you are fully compliant with EMAS policies and procedures in respect of patient safety, for example Risk Management, Infection Prevention and Control, Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, but to give an indication of the main areas of activity and involvement.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria- 3 years post registration experience
- Willingness to complete NHS Pathways and/or PACCs training
- NHS pathways or PACCs trained
- Telephone consultation experience
- 2 years experience of working in an emergency care setting in the last 3 years
Qualifications
Essential criteria- HCPC/NMC registration
The East Midlands has a lot to offer:
Excellent Location
Making a Difference
Action Packed Roles
Support and Belonging
Note on Covid-19 Vaccination status:
It is a clear professional responsibility of all health care staff to be vaccinated. EMAS NHS Trust therefore encourages and supports all employees to be vaccinated as it remains the best line of defence against COVID 19.
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 - Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to 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 (All 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 £55.38.