Senior Clinical Specialist ME/CFS

Job Title: Senior Clinical Specialist MECFS
Location: Maidstone, South East
Salary: 35,766 to £44,688 depending upon experience
Contract basis: Full time
Contractual hours per week: 37.5

Senior Clinical Specialist Full Time/Part Time Up to £44,688 depending on experience Kent and Medway

Join our team
We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Senior Specialist Practitioner to join our new ME/CFS and Long Covid Service across Kent and Medway.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multidisciplinary service supporting adults with ME/CFS and Long Covid, including people with complex, fluctuating and long-term symptoms. You will work alongside colleagues from nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, medical, mental health and care coordination backgrounds to deliver safe, personalised and evidence-based care.
The role will suit a registered clinician who is confident supporting people with long-term conditions, fatigue, post-exertional malaise/post-exertional symptom exacerbation, breathlessness, deconditioning and functional limitations. You will support patients to understand their condition, manage symptoms, build confidence and access the right care at the right time.

What you'll do

• Assess and manage a specialist caseload of patients with ME/CFS and Long Covid.
• Deliver person-centred assessment, care planning and self-management support.
• Support patients with energy management, pacing, fatigue management, relapse planning and activity adaptation.
• Work as part of the MDT to support triage, pathway allocation, care planning and case review.
• Deliver care through 1:1, group, virtual, clinic, community and home-based appointments.
• Identify clinical risk, deterioration or complexity and escalate appropriately.
• Support patients with personalised care and support plans focused on what matters to them.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, community services, voluntary sector partners, carers and families.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to outcome monitoring, audit and service improvement.
• Support colleagues through advice, shared learning and contribution to service development.

About you
You will be a registered nurse or allied health professional with experience supporting people with long-term conditions, complex rehabilitation needs or fluctuating clinical presentations.
You will bring:

• Current professional registration with the relevant UK regulatory body.
• Experience working with patients with long-term, complex or persistent symptoms.
• Strong assessment, clinical reasoning and communication skills.
• Understanding of ME/CFS, Long Covid, fatigue, pacing and post-exertional malaise/post-exertional symptom exacerbation.
• Confidence working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to deliver compassionate, personalised care across face-to-face and digital settings.
• Sound judgement around clinical escalation, safeguarding and risk.
• A commitment to safe, evidence-based and patient-centred practice.

Helpful experience
Experience in ME/CFS, Long Covid, rehabilitation, respiratory, community services, occupational health, pain, neurology, mental health, social prescribing or personalised care would be helpful, but not essential.

What we can offer you
At Cora, we want colleagues to feel supported, trusted and able to do meaningful work. You will be joining a new service where your clinical judgement, ideas and experience will help shape how care is delivered.
We can offer:

• The opportunity to help mobilise and develop a new specialist service.
• A supportive multidisciplinary team environment.
• A varied role across clinic, community, virtual and home-based care.
• Opportunities for learning, reflective practice and professional development.
• A values-led culture focused on better care, better outcomes and better experiences.

We are Cora Health
Cora Health is reimagining healthcare for people to thrive.
We believe healthcare can always be better. We deliver care at scale, but we will always care for the individual. Our services support people to get back to better, back to their best, or simply find a path forward.
Our values guide how we work:

• We start with a can-do attitude.
• We act with empathy.
• We're committed to better.

Equality, diversity and inclusion
At Cora Health, we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected and able to thrive.
We value different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences, and we therefore welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds. We are also committed to supporting reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Apply today
If you are a registered nurse or AHP who wants to help shape a compassionate, evidence-based ME/CFS and Long Covid service, we would love to hear from you.
Cora Health reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should a high volume of applications be received. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to ensure their application is considered.