IUCS Single Point of Access - Senior Clinical Advisor

Job overview

Are you looking for a role with less physical demands and more flexible hours? We have exciting opportunities for reliable and passionate Nurses and Paramedics to give 100% patient care in a controlled environment.

The SPoA Senior Clinical Advisor role is a part time, 15 hours a week based within the Dorset Integrated Urgent Care hub at St Leonard’s in Dorset. You will manage a caseload of patients, referred to the SPoA team via phone and email referral from a variety of care settings. Referrals include GP surgeries, 999, acute hospital wards, NHS 111 and other care teams.

As a SPoA Senior Clinical Advisor, you will provide a high quality person centred approach to care delivery, considering people’s safety, privacy and dignity at all times. Providing specialist care and interventions, assessments and treatments through the organisation of referrals to appropriate teams within the wider Dorset Healthcare team is fundamental within this role.

As a close knit team the mentorship, training and clinical support of other staff members is vital. There will also be the opportunity to offer mentorship and training to students.

You will actively promote and contribute to a performance culture in relation to the SPoA Team and Integrated Urgent Care service as well as all other clinical services provided by the organisation.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to provide a high quality person centred approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity.

To provide specialist care and interventions, assessments, treatments and managing patients on a caseload, as part of the wider multidisciplinary care team.

To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients / service users.

To devise specialist programmes of care for other professionals to deliver and ensure they are delivered appropriately.

To plan, implement and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings.

Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and trained practitioners.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.

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.

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 dhc.wideningparticipation@nhs.net

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.