Medical Repatriation Travel jobs

Medical Case Manager – Registered Nurse (RGN)

£42,000–£45,000 depending on experience
Esher, Surrey
4 days per week | Full-time, Permanent
Hybrid working following training
International medical cases | Repatriation | Flight nursing opportunities

Ready to use your acute nursing experience in a completely different way?

If you have spent the last few years working in A&E, ICU, ITU, HDU, CCU, Acute Medicine or Acute Surgery, this could be an opportunity to take everything you have learned clinically and use it in a completely different environment.

We are recruiting for an experienced Registered Adult Nurse to join an international medical assistance team as a Medical Case Manager.

You will still be making clinical decisions, assessing risk, recognising deterioration and determining the safest course of action but instead of managing patients at the bedside, you will be coordinating their care from start to finish.

The cases are varied, international and often complex.

You could be supporting a patient who has become seriously unwell while travelling overseas, reviewing treatment being provided by an overseas hospital, speaking directly with treating clinicians, determining whether care can safely continue locally, or helping coordinate an international medical evacuation or repatriation back to the UK.

For nurses who enjoy clinical decision-making, problem-solving and managing complex patients, but are looking for something beyond traditional ward nursing, this offers a genuinely different career path.

What will you actually be doing?

• You will take ownership of medical cases involving individuals and their dependants who become ill or injured while living, travelling or working overseas.
• A typical case could involve receiving a medical report from an overseas hospital, reviewing observations, investigations and treatment, speaking with the patient or their family, liaising directly with the treating doctor and assessing whether the treatment plan is clinically appropriate.
• From there, you will continue to monitor the case and determine the safest next step.
• That might mean continuing treatment locally, arranging specialist review, coordinating further investigations, determining whether the patient is fit to fly, or supporting the organisation of a medical evacuation or repatriation.
• You will be trusted to use your own clinical judgement while having access to a wider medical team for support and escalation where necessary.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Clinically assessing new and ongoing medical cases.
• Reviewing symptoms, observations, medical reports, investigations and treatment plans.
• Speaking directly with patients, families, doctors and hospitals around the world.
• Identifying clinical risk and recognising when a patient's condition is deteriorating.
• Developing and continually reviewing appropriate case-management plans.
• Prioritising multiple cases according to urgency and clinical need.
• Coordinating referrals, specialist reviews, investigations and treatment.
• Assessing whether the care available locally is clinically appropriate.
• Determining whether a patient is medically fit to travel.
• Supporting medical evacuations and international repatriations.
• Assessing what medical support may be required during travel.
• Managing cases independently while escalating appropriately to senior medical colleagues.
• Supporting pre-travel medical assessments, vaccinations and management of pre-existing medical conditions.

Why nurses make the move:

This is not a move away from clinical nursing.

It is an opportunity to use the experience you have already developed in a different way.

The skills you use every day in acute care are exactly what underpin the position:

Recognising deterioration. Assessing clinical risk. Prioritising competing demands. Interpreting medical information. Communicating with doctors. Escalating appropriately. Making safe decisions under pressure.

Instead of managing one ward or department, you will be managing medical cases occurring across different countries and healthcare systems.

It can be particularly attractive for experienced acute nurses who want:

• Less physically demanding work.
• Continued clinical responsibility.
• Greater case ownership.
• Exposure to international healthcare.
• A route into medical case management.
• Experience in repatriation and medical assistance.
• A four-day working week.
• Hybrid working.
• The opportunity to continue occasional hands-on nursing through patient escorts.

What we're looking for

You must be a Registered Adult Nurse with a current NMC PIN.

The strongest candidates will usually have around 4+ years of recent acute nursing experience, ideally gained within environments such as:

A&E / Emergency Department | ICU | ITU | HDU | CCU | Acute Medicine | Acute Surgical Nursing

You should be confident managing acutely unwell adults and comfortable with:

• Clinical assessment and clinical reasoning.
• Recognising and responding to deterioration.
• Triage and prioritisation.
• Reviewing observations and clinical information.
• Making evidence-based clinical decisions.
• Escalating concerns appropriately.
• Communicating confidently with doctors and senior clinicians.
• Managing multiple priorities at the same time.
• Clear clinical documentation.

You do not need previous experience as a Medical Case Manager.

What matters most is having a strong acute clinical foundation and being able to apply that judgement in a remote case-management environment.

Previous exposure to medical assistance, international healthcare, travel medicine, repatriation, medical insurance, military healthcare or government healthcare would be advantageous but is not essential.

Working pattern

This is a full-time, four-day-per-week position, with the medical service operating between 8am and 10pm.

Package

• £42,000–£45,000 salary depending on experience
• 4-day working week
• Hybrid working following training
• Opportunities for international patient escorts / flight nursing
• Exposure to international medical assistance and repatriation
• 5 weeks' annual leave plus public holidays
• Pension
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Additional birthday leave following the qualifying period

Interested?

If you are an experienced acute-care nurse looking for something genuinely different, but still want to use your clinical judgement and nursing experience every day, this could offer a very strong next step.

Particularly suitable for nurses currently working within A&E, ICU, ITU, HDU, CCU, Acute Medicine or Acute Surgery who are considering their next move outside traditional bedside nursing.

Pay: Up to £45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance

Application question(s):

• Are you within travel distance of the office in Esher?

Experience:

• Acute care: 3 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Esher KT10