Job summary
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.

Band 6 NHS Agenda for Change - £39,959 to £48,117 per annum

Locations: Medway Make Ready Centre (East) or Crawley HQ (West) - The role will require you to work from one of these locations, remote working is not available.

Full time and 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 Wednesday 25th November 2026. If successful you will then be invited to a face to face interview on Wednesday 2nd December 2026 at Medway Make Ready Centre.

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 care, 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.

About us

• Option to join NHS pension scheme
• A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years' service.
• Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
• Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
• Access to occupational health and counselling services.
• Award winning wellbeing hub
• Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.

Other than in exceptional circumstances, the starting salary for staff new to the NHS will be the bottom point of the band to which they have been appointed.

This is a fully office-based role at our NHS 111/999 contact centres in Medway, Kent or Crawley, West Sussex. Because of 24/7 shift patterns, including nights, applicants should live within about 45-60 minutes of commuting time. Applications outside this distance will not be progressed.

If you are planning to relocate, please include details and timescales in your supporting statement.

Please make sure you read all supporting documents before applying for this role. These include important information about the training and rota requirements.

Qualifications (Essential)

• Registered Paramedic (HCPC) or Registered Nurse - Adult (NMC) with current professional registration with 2 years post registration experience in an appropriate field
• Evidence of additional professional development relevant to urgent, emergency, unscheduled or virtual care.
• Knowledge of NHS urgent and emergency care pathways.

Experience (Essential)

• Experience of autonomous clinical assessment and decision making within an urgent, emergency, community or unscheduled care setting.
• Ability to work independently whilst recognising limits of practice and escalating appropriately.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Reference number: 278-VCC-1026-NW
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time

Employer contact: Natalie White, Recruitment Advisor, natalie.white@secamb.nhs.uk