Virtual Care Clinician (Nurse/Paramedic) - Integrated Care

Job overview

The frontline has changed.

Clinical expertise is no longer limited by geography, ambulance availability or hospital walls. Virtual Care is transforming how urgent and emergency care is delivered, helping patients access the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

Virtual Care Clinician

Band 6 NHS Agenda for Change - £39,959 to £48,1117 per annum

Locations: Medway Make Ready Centre (East) or Crawley HQ (West)

Full time & part-time positions available.

Join our growing Virtual Care service! This is a chance to help change how urgent and emergency care is delivered. As a Virtual Care Clinician, you’ll use your skills and technology to provide safe care. You’ll help patients in urgent and emergency situations. Your goal is to ensure they get the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

This is much more than a telephone-based clinical role.

You'll join a service with a clear vision for Virtual Care. It aims to lead in digitally enabled urgent and emergency care. Join us at a key moment in our journey. You'll help shape how Virtual Care grows across SECAmb in the years ahead.

If you are shortlisted, you will be invited to an online clinical assessment on Thursday, 22nd October 2026. If successful you will then be invited to a face to face interview on Tuesday 3rd November 2026 at Crawley HQ.

Main duties of the job

As a Virtual Care Clinician, you will:

• Undertake autonomous virtual clinical assessments for patients accessing 999, NHS 111 and other referral pathways.
• Use clinical judgement, evidence-based practice and decision-support systems to assess and manage patients with urgent and emergency healthcare needs.
• Develop person-centred care plans and deliver self-care advice, safety-netting and onward referrals.
• Support access to community, primary are, mental health and urgent care services.
• Provide clinical leadership and advice to operational and clinical colleagues.
• Identify and manage risk, safeguarding concerns and patient deterioration.
• Contribute to quality improvement, audit and service development projects.
• Support the development of innovative virtual models of care and contribute to the ongoing growth of SECAmb's Virtual Care service.
• Coach, mentor and support colleagues as the service continues to evolve.
• Build expertise in digital healthcare and remote clinical assessment, one of the fastest-growing areas of NHS practice.

If you are excited by change, passionate about delivering outstanding patient care and motivated by the opportunity to help design the future of healthcare, we would love to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Virtual Care is changing how patients access urgent and emergency healthcare. This role lets you be part of that transformation. Working within SECAmb's Integrated Care Contact Centres, you will provide autonomous remote clinical assessment, care planning and decision-making for patients accessing urgent and emergency services.

Using your clinical expertise, professional judgement and evidence-based practice, you will ensure patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time while supporting the effective use of healthcare resources.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing service and play an active role in shaping the future of Virtual Care at SECAmb. You will provide excellent patient care. Also, you will help improve services, drive innovation, and develop digital healthcare pathways. As the service grows, you can develop specialist skills, support your colleagues, and take on future clinical leadership and development roles.

“Join us at the start of an exciting journey. Help build a Virtual Care service that will shape the future of urgent and emergency care across SECAmb.”

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.