EOC Senior Clinical Advisor | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 02 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 November 2024 |
| Location: | Wakefield & York, WF2 0XQ |
| Company: | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6687867/174-EOCSCA-021024 |
Summary
Would you like to be part of a team delivering an invaluable service to the patients of Yorkshire?
Would you like to work for an ambitious and challenging organisation which will share your passion for high quality patient care?
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is now recruiting for Senior Clinical Advisors in our Emergency (999) Operations Centres based in Wakefield and York with course start dates from January 2025 onwards.
Here at Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) we have hugely exciting developments and opportunities lined up over the next few years and are looking for individuals who are highly motivated, enthusiastic and committed to assist with these changes.
The Senior Clinical Advisor is responsible for the assessment of health and clinical needs, utilising professional clinical judgement, supported by decision support software. This requires generalist and specialist skills as a telehealth professional to assess and deliver care to patients.
As a Senior Clinical Advisor you will need to be able to demonstrate the following key skills:
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Work with a variety of clinical specialists to ensure safe clinical processes for patients
• The ability to make quick safe clinical decisions under pressure and the ability to assess and identify red flag symptoms and conditions and make quick safe clinical decisions under pressure.
• Undertake referrals to internal and external clinicians
You will provide triage, medication advice, health information and implement care packages to a range of individuals, liaising with other agencies and healthcare providers as necessary.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.
We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.
Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.
Benefits:
• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes.
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.
Check out our YAS One Team Simulation!https://www.nwyhelearning.nhs.uk/elearning/yorksandhumber/yas/yasoneteam/index.html
To be successful in this role you should be a registered professional (for example, a registered Nurse or Paramedic) and have experience of undertaking clinical assessment within an acute or primary care setting.
For full details please see the attached Job Description.
Please note: The training and mentorship period is full time.
If you are invited to interview for this position, part of your interview will include a telephone triage assessment.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Oct 2024