Senior Clinical Assessor/Navigator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Senior Clinical Assessor/Navigator within the newly created Digital Health Service. The post holder will perform clinical assessment and monitoring for Hospital at Home patients, and provide senior clinical assessment and care navigation for acutely unwell adults referred via the Urgent Single Point of Access. It involves utilising digital equipment and telephony systems for remote patient monitoring and care navigation. The role requires collaboration with healthcare professionals to ensure appropriate patient care and effective navigation to services.
Key responsibilities
- Collaborate with referring HCPs to provide appropriate patient care and clinical advice, ensuring effective navigation to services.
- Develop clinical skills in assessing acutely ill patients using digital, remote technology.
- Deliver evidence-based nursing care through expert clinical assessment, care planning, delivery, evaluation, and advice.
- Utilise triage tools and adhere to Standard Operating Procedures to support effective care navigation within Stockport.
- Ensure accurate and contemporaneous electronic record completion and referral transfer to the correct department and team.
- Manage direct bookable appointments into identified services via Adastra, adhering to protocols and guidelines.
Essential criteria
- 1st Level Registered Nurse.
- Degree qualification or experience to demonstrate level of working
- Has specialist knowledge of a broad range of medical conditions and treatments within sphere of responsibility.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Able to demonstrate leadership development
- Experience of responding to sudden and unplanned changes in medical conditions.
- Experience of making autonomous decisions
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of managing a team and day to day workload.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to work under pressure.
- Effective written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrates planning and organisational skills to deploy staffing resource.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced clinical skills module or equivalent or working towards.
- Urgent care / emergency room Experience/community speciality or educational qualification
- Evidence/ experience of digital monitoring of patients
- Experience working within "Rapid/Crisis response" situations
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Clinical Assessor/Navigator
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
Senior Clinical Assessor/Navigator - Part time - 30 hours per week
The newly created Digital Health Service will be responsible for the clinical assessment and monitoring of Hospital at home patients alongside the senior clinical assessment and care navigation of the acutely unwell adult that has been referred via the Urgent Single Point of Access.
The Senior Clinical Assessor/Navigator role will have dual function:
Care Navigation and identification of clinical service for any acutely unwell adult referred
Clinically assess and offer digital remote monitoring of Hospital at home patients upon the green caseload, identifying deterioration and managing escalation to the Senior Clinicians in VW
The role will require clinical skills of assessment, alongside the ability to utilise digital equipment and telephony systems to support the role within the Digital Health Service.
Main duties of the job
Collaborate with referring HCP and provide the appropriate delivery of patient care and clinical and professional advice that will result in effective navigation of the patient to the appropriate service
Develop clinical skills in the assessment of acutely ill patients via the Digital, remote technology.
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