Job summary
- Main area
- Adults
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-GM2053-UPC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Crawley Hospital
- Town
- Crawley
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum / pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Remote Monitoring Clinician
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Be part of a pioneering new service that’s transforming how we care for patients across Sussex. Our Remote Monitoring Hub is designed to support patients at home, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and deliver compassionate, timely care through innovative virtual solutions.
As a Senior Remote Monitoring Clinician, you’ll lead a dynamic team in managing patient data, triaging referrals, and coordinating care across community services. You’ll play a key role in shaping a positive, inclusive culture and ensuring patients receive the right care, at the right time.
Although the patient monitoring is remote, the hub will be based at Crawley Hospital, where the team will be responsible for the monitoring of patients across Sussex. The Remote Monitoring Hub Operational Service hours are 08:00hrs-20:00hrs, Monday to Sunday, 365 days of the year.
Why Join Us?
- Rated “Good” with Outstanding Features – CQC
- Flexible working – job sharing, career breaks, parental leave
- Real Living Wage Employer
- Inclusive culture – thriving staff networks (BAME, LGBT+, Disability)
- Stunning Sussex locations – South Downs & coastal communities
- Workplace nurseries & wellbeing support
- Career development – leadership pathways, CPD, mentorship
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading shifts and supporting junior staff
- Triaging patient data and referrals with clinical precision
- Coordinating care with GPs, paramedics, and community teams
- Ensuring service quality and performance targets are met
- Promoting compassionate, patient-centred care
What We’re Looking For
We’re seeking a registered Nurse or Paramedic (NMC/HCPC) with:
- Strong triage and critical decision-making skills
- Experience in unscheduled care and team leadership
- Knowledge of frailty, heart failure, COPD, and diabetes
- Excellent communication, documentation, and IT skills
- A passion for innovation and continuous professional development
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for further details regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse or Paramedic – NMC or HCPC
- Evidence of post registration experience
- Mentorship course or ENB 998 (teaching and assessing course) or must be willing to undertake within 1 year)
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level
- Postgraduate qualification in health-related subject
Experience
Essential criteria
- Triage experience
- Evidence of well-developed critical decision-making skills
- Ability to manage a team
- Understanding of the Health Care Agenda
- Demonstrates commitment to and recent evidence of further education and professional development
- Ability to deal with a wide range of people at all levels including clients, carers, therapists, health and social care colleagues and other professionals
- Demonstrates a positive attitude towards change
- Understanding of multi-disciplinary working in the care of adults
- Knowledge of clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the Single Assessment Process
- Experience of unscheduled care
- Experience of supervising, coaching, supporting, and mentoring less experienced staff
- Experience of clinical supervision
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Computer Literate
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills
- Demonstration of clear, accurate and precise documentation
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent time management skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of SystemOne
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly within a shift pattern
- Ability to travel to various work bases.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kim Fretter
- Job title
- Deputy Nursing Divisional Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768 328283
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