# DIUCS Senior Clinician - Nurse / Paramedic > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/diucs-senior-clinician-nurse-paramedic/34a0108d-f093-43b3-83f5-632a083512c5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/diucs-senior-clinician-nurse-paramedic/34a0108d-f093-43b3-83f5-632a083512c5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Poole - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Paramedic - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 p.a. pro rata for part time - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (Part-time or full time hours available) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-16T14:01:12.571Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Dorset/Ringwood/Dorset_HealthCare_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Assessment_Treatment/Clinical_Assessment_Treatment-v8134894 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8134894?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced nurse or paramedic, looking to develop your skills and knowledge? Dorset Integrated Urgent Care Service (DIUCS) want 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. Part time or full time roles available. For more information about the role please contact: Mike Burns, Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service Manager: \[email protected\] ### Main duties of the job Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful. 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. ### Detailed job description and main 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. We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role. All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements.  Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application. 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 contact \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE **Essential** - 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. **Desirable** - Recent previous experience within a comparable role ### PERSONAL QUALITIES/ATTRIBUTES **Essential** - 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 ### KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TRAINING **Essential** - 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 **Desirable** - Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role ### MANAGERIAL/SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff - Experience of devising and delivering training ## Documents - [jd&ps (pdf, 518.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10462705) - [dbs information (pdf, 22.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2340) - [staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 316.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=695) - [pay scales from 1 april 2025 (pdf, 44.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1941) - [applications recruitment flowchart (pdf, 434.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=866) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.