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London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
About
The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) is the largest free ambulance service in the world, caring for more than one-and-a-half million patients every year.
We are the only London-wide NHS Trust and are at the frontline of the NHS in the capital. We serve an area of approximately 620 square miles. Broadly speaking, this is the whole area within the M25.
We have two main functions - the provision of an Accident and Emergency service to respond to 999 calls and our Patient Transport Service, which performs an important role in taking patients to and from their hospital appointments.
In addition, we also manage the Emergency Bed Service, which co-ordinates registers of specialised care facilities available across London, along with some national monitoring services.
Contact
- Address
- London Ambulance Service Headquarters
- 220 Waterloo Road
- London
- SE1 8SD
- Contact Number
- 020 3069 0260
Consultant Paramedic - Urgent Care
Accepting applications until: 05-Jul-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 05-Jul-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Waterloo HQ
- Address
- 220 Waterloo Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 8SD
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Clinical On Call rota)
Salary
- Salary
- £88,250 - £100,355 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Consultant Paramedic
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.
We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city. We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.
We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.
We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time
Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.
Job overview
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Working for our organisation
Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
- Our care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
- Our organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
- Our London – using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role of the Consultant Paramedic (Urgent Care) is to ensure that the highest standard of patient care is delivered via effective clinical leadership and supervision. As part of the senior clinical team within the Trust they will provide leadership and supervision of clinical staff and
lead on the implementation of developments in urgent care. This will include leading the professional development of the paramedic workforce and providing senior clinical advice to a range of colleagues.
The Consultant Paramedic will have responsibility for the following functions:
• To provide clinical and professional leadership and oversight to the advanced practice
urgent care teams and the specialist practice teams.
• To provide clinical leadership and support to the wider organization in relation to urgent care
• To provide clinical leadership, mentorship and senior clinical support to clinical staff. To provide expert input to clinical developments within the Trust, in relation to urgent and primary care.
• To provide expert clinical guidance in clinical case reviews
• The role will primarily be internally focused on the development of the implementation of the primary and urgent care agenda within the LAS providing clinical leadership and development to Advanced Paramedics.
• Foster an open and transparent culture where people are willing to report and learn from
incidents and near misses
• To support the Trust in the strategic development of both internal and external educational programs
• To be part of the Clinical on call rotas
Other areas of responsibility will include:
• Joint working with multi-disciplinary teams to establish and provide new services for patients with reference to strategy documents produced by NHSE, Department of Health, NICE etc.
• Design and provide a patient-centred, seamless, integrated approach consistent with the principles of Clinical Governance
• Work clinically at an advanced practice level (urgent care or equivalent) and maintain these competencies
• Providing an expert consultancy service to patients, carers and colleagues;
• Planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based care;
• Contributing to the development of the service by taking an active role in generating and disseminating knowledge across the organisation, and the pan-London area;
• Undertaking research in a specialist area that focuses on improving outcomes and
experiences for patients, families and carers;
• Facilitating and providing education and training to staff and students;
This role encompasses a very strong professional leadership mandate including:
• Specifically addressing the issue of scope of practice developments for paramedics and other staff in primary and urgent care
• To oversee the development of advances in clinical care to reduce conveyance safely
• Providing clinical leadership and advice on strategic direction in their own specialist field of practice and service development ensuring a whole systems approach to the delivery of paramedic-led pre-hospital care.
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is a member of the Business Disability Forum and is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.
In addition to the basic salary for all Agenda for Change posts, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust in line with the NHS Agenda for Change provides 15% or 20% High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) dependant on the location of your role. The supplement is subject to minimum and maximum payment.
High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) for part time employee will be based on the part time salary.
Please note, the selection processes at London Ambulance Service are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications is monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.
Correspondence regarding an application will be done via email to all job applicants. Please ensure you provide a current e-mail address on the job application form and please check your email inbox regularly.
If you are successful at interview and offered employment, your personal details will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Pre-employment checks will be required for all applicants who are issued with a conditional offer of employment. This includes Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) checks as required for the post and registration with the DBS update service. Documents presented for the purpose of Identity Checks will be verified for authenticity via an ID Scanner. The security features to be checked include machine readable zone, ultra violet image and infra-red image.
The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust reserves the right to close adverts before the published closing date due to high volumes of applications received.
If you do not hear back from us within four weeks of the advert closing date, please assume that you have not been successful at the shortlisting stage.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications, Accreditations, Education
Essential criteria
- A BSc (hons) degree in paramedic science or equivalent clinical discipline
- A clinical master’s degree, ideally with a focus relevant to the portfolio
- HCPC registered Paramedic (without conditions or cautions)
- A recognised teaching qualification or equivalent demonstrable ability with evidence of teaching in practice and/ or classroom situations
- Mentoring and coaching; minimum of Practice Placement Educator Level 3 (certificate) or significant demonstrable development of mentoring and coaching skills through formal learning and application.
- Membership of the Royal College of Paramedics
- Advanced Practice Qualifications (as per HEE definitions)
- Full UK driving licence including C1 with relevant blue light qualifications
Desirable criteria
- PhD or doctoral qualification in a relevant area
- NHS leadership academy qualifications or equivalent
- Non-medical Prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant demonstrable frontline pre hospital experience commensurate with requirements for a consultant AHP role
- Up-to-date portfolio including significant demonstrable and recent CPD activity
- Demonstrable experience of frontline/operational leaderships roles
- Expert knowledge of the development and implementation of urgent care practice within an ambulance setting
- Experience of research in practice
- Experience of working in other clinical settings
- Recent demonstrable experience working as an autonomous practitioner in an advanced practice role
- Demonstrable experience in investigating patient safety incidents
- Significant experience in delivery and implementation of change at a time of operational pressure
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Expert in assessing and examine patients presenting with both acute and chronic conditions
- Utilise additional diagnostic adjuncts
- Negotiate alternative treatment and/ or referral strategies, utilising a range of care pathways and treat and leave approaches based on sound assessment and decision making skills
- Demonstrable evidence of the ability to support clinicians in making complex decisions about patient care.
- Evidence of ability to participate in primary research and demonstrate knowledge of assessing and evaluating research-based evidence
- Evidence of ability to contribute to training events/ courses where specialist clinical knowledge is required.
- Evidence of ability to participate in clinical audit on a local and/ or service wide basis
- Ability to operate at a strategic level setting priorities and motivate others to deliver high quality care
- Balance strategic and operational requirements to meet timescales and deadlines
- Experience in negotiating and influencing at an organisational level and externally with a range of stakeholders
- Evidence of effective project management
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tim Edwards
- Job title
- Consultant Paramedic & Associate Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717808399
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- 220 Waterloo Road
- London
- SE1 8SD
- Telephone
- [email protected]
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