NHS 111 Homeworking Clinician

Job summary

NHS 111 Pathways trained Home Working Clinical Advisor.

Are you a Registered nurse (RN1 or RNA) who excels in assessing patients over the phone?

You must be an NHS Pathways Accredited Clinician and have a minimum of 12 months current experience working within 111 service or Integrated Urgent Care Service.

To be considered for this role:

• As an NHS 111 Clinical Advisor your job is to carry out complex clinical triage: providing assessment, advice, and information to the patient. You will have quick and safe clinical decision-making skills using your clinical judgment.
• You will also support and assist our Health Advisors in the organisation of critical situations while ensuring patient safety.
• You must have exceptional communication skills
• You will have variety of skills to enable you to assess and deliver high quality care to patients across all age groups.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Advisor for NHS 111, you will be responsible for ensuring that your patients receive a quality service.

• You will have good IT skills and be competent in the use of Adastra
• You will provide assessment, medication advice, and health information to patients calling NHS 111.
• You will triage patients and facilitate their access to appropriate levels of care, including provision of self-care advice; referral to health and social care professionals, and providing health and medication information.
• You will have worked with a variety of clinical specialists to ensure safe clinical processes for patients
• Meet the required standards for key performance indicators
• Be committed to self-development and training
• In addition to this you will be able to demonstrate your flexibility to meet service needs and enthusiasm to deliver high quality patient care.

About us

Benefits we offer:

• Expert training and support from our dedicated in-house education team.
• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.

About Us

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.

The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex.

We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.