Nurse / Paramedic Clinical Advisor - Bedford - NHS 111

Job overview

HUC provides Urgent and Unscheduled Care services to over 4.5 million patients across Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, West Essex and the South West of England. HUC is an exciting and supportive place to work. No two shifts are the same and we have a wealth of knowledge across the organisation, ensuring we get the most appropriate outcome for every caller.

As an NHS 111 Clinical Advisor, you will provide safe, timely and compassionate clinical assessment, triage and advice to people contacting NHS 111 and HUC’s Clinical Assessment Service. Using your professional knowledge, effective telephone consultation skills, NHS Pathways and approved local pathways, you will assess urgent and undifferentiated presentations, identify clinical risk and determine the most appropriate care.

You will recognise deterioration, time-critical illness and safeguarding concerns, provide self-care advice and safety-netting, and arrange referrals or escalation to emergency, urgent, primary, community or specialist services.

Working within a supportive multidisciplinary team and established clinical governance framework, you will also provide clinical guidance to Health Advisors and colleagues. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to patient safety and experience across a dynamic 24/7 service, while developing your clinical assessment, decision-making and remote consultation skills.

Main duties of the job

• Conduct structured telephone assessments, gathering relevant information and evaluating symptoms, clinical risk, vulnerability, capacity and communication needs.
• Use NHS Pathways, approved clinical decision-support tools and local pathways to determine clinical urgency, disposition and appropriate onward care.
• Recognise red flags, deterioration, time-critical illness and safeguarding concerns, escalating promptly and facilitating emergency or urgent intervention where required.
• Provide clear, evidence-based advice, safety-netting and agreed care plans, checking patient understanding.
• Arrange safe referrals and handovers to appropriate services, including ambulance, emergency, primary care, urgent care, mental health, pharmacy and community services.
• Support Health Advisors and the wider multidisciplinary team with clinical advice, case reviews and clinical floor support where trained and allocated.
• Maintain accurate records, protect confidentiality, report risks and incidents, and participate in audit, supervision, training and continuous improvement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role involves an 8-weeks of paid, full-time Pathways training. Following the completion of the training, you will work according to an agreed rota. Current rota patterns are attached to this vacancy - please review them prior to application and select a suitable pattern. We can also offer Relief rotas with varied schedule.

The recruitment process for this role involves 30-45 min online assessment. Following successful assessment, you will be invited to a clinical interview.

Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification and feel free to contact the Recruitment Team should you have any questions - recruitment@huc.nhs.uk

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.