About this role
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Virtual Hospital Service as a Nurse Adviser within our lung health nursing team. In this role, youll contribute to delivering high-quality clinical care, taking the lead on key aspects of the patient pathway.
Working closely with the Clinical Services Manager, youll help ensure the service is safe, effective, and well-led, supporting a seamless patient experience. Youll collaborate with hospital and community teams across the pathway, providing patient- and family-centred care, alongside offering advice and education to patients and their carers.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will:
Complete Lung Health Checks (LHC) via telephone in line with SOPs, including risk scoring and assessing eligibility criteria
Deliver brief smoking cessation interventions and refer patients to appropriate services
Act as a key point of contact for patients and carers, providing clinical advice, support, and guidance
Assess patients health and psychosocial needs, supporting shared decision-making
Deliver high-quality nursing care within a multidisciplinary team environment
Work closely with clinical and management teams to achieve service objectives
About us
Part of Acacium Group, Xyla is an integrated healthcare solution that improves peoples lives and alleviates the demands of the UK healthcare system. Our services help people avoid hospital or accelerate them safely through it, with specialist support in their community or homes whenever needed.
Working with over 80 NHS trusts, our clinical care team delivers a range of clinical services in hospitals, the community or virtually. Our services include diagnostic, acute and virtual services all of which are designed and delivered by senior NHS consultants and operational staff who ensure that national clinical guidelines and operational best practice guidance are met.
Job description Job responsibilities
Were Hiring: Nurse Advisor
Xyla (part of Acacium Group)
Remote working style
Permanent, part-time 30 hours a week Monday-Friday
working hours between 8am-7pm
£38,000 FTE
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Virtual Hospital Service as a Nurse Adviser within our lung health nursing team. In this role, youll contribute to delivering high-quality clinical care, taking the lead on key aspects of the patient pathway.
Working closely with the Clinical Services Manager, youll help ensure the service is safe, effective, and well-led, supporting a seamless patient experience. Youll collaborate with hospital and community teams across the pathway, providing patient- and family-centred care, alongside offering advice and education to patients and their carers.
Our lung health nursing team is dedicated to delivering the Targeted Lung Health Check Programme in line with national standards. This includes conducting telephone consultations to proactively identify high-risk patients and facilitate CT lung assessments, supporting early detection and intervention for potential lung cancer.
Part of Acacium Group, Xyla is an integrated healthcare solution that improves peoples lives and alleviates the demands of the UK healthcare system. Our services help people avoid hospital or accelerate them safely through it, with specialist support in their community or homes whenever needed.
Working with over 80 NHS trusts, our clinical care team delivers a range of clinical services in hospitals, the community or virtually. Our services include diagnostic, acute and virtual services all of which are designed and delivered by senior NHS consultants and operational staff who ensure that national clinical guidelines and operational best practice guidance are met.
About the Role
In this role, you will:
Complete Lung Health Checks (LHC) via telephone in line with SOPs, including risk scoring and assessing eligibility criteria
Deliver brief smoking cessation interventions and refer patients to appropriate services
Act as a key point of contact for patients and carers, providing clinical advice, support, and guidance
Assess patients health and psychosocial needs, supporting shared decision-making
Deliver high-quality nursing care within a multidisciplinary team environment
Work closely with clinical and management teams to achieve service objectives
What Youll Bring
We dont expect perfection. If most of this sounds like you, wed love to hear from you:
Understanding of respiratory nursing standards and key performance indicators
Strong planning and organisational skills, with experience in coaching or health promotion
Experience Were Looking For
If you dont meet every requirement but believe youd be a strong fit, please apply anyway, we value diverse experiences:
A valid NMC registration/ band 6 equivalent
Experience of working with respiratory conditions
Join us and make a difference!
If you want to join a global, marketing-leading organisation who are committed to the human side of business, then look no further. Acacium Group is a global healthcare solutions partner offering staffing, managed services and innovative delivery models to health and social care systems and the life sciences industry. We are a business with scale, leading digital capabilities and a strong financial profile, with a vision to be the leading global healthcare solutions partner.
We are powered by the best people and have an unrivalled and diverse range of capabilities, all while incorporating our company values into everything we do - Putting People First, Always by your Side, Driven by Excellence.
Join us and play a key part of shaping the future of society and improving peoples lives!
Our Inclusion Commitment:
We are passionately committed to being a truly inclusive and diverse company- it is at the heart of our core value of Putting People First. We continue to enhance our culture of inclusion and diversity across all of our roles and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
RGN with an active NMC pin, band 6 equivalent
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 (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Xyla
Address 9 Appold Street
London
EC2A 2AP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://xylaservices.com/ (Opens in a new tab)