Consultant Paramedic Urgent and Emergency Care

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust; Bicester; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading regional healthcare provider is seeking a Consultant Paramedic in Urgent and Emergency Care in Bicester. The role requires expertise in delivering high standards of care, managing clinical audits, and providing leadership across various teams. Candidates should have a clinical MSc, HCPC registration, and significant leadership experience. The position offers a salary ranging from £76,965 to £88,682 per annum, with various professional development benefits and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Full training and courses

27 to 33 days holiday

NHS Pension Scheme

Health and Wellbeing support

NHS Discounts

Qualifications

• Clinically focused MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice required.
• Registration with HCPC mandatory.
• Demonstrated leadership in pre-hospital setting is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership in emergency care.
• Manage clinical audit team.
• Budgets, policy influence, and consultancy on emergency care.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical expertise

Teaching and coaching

Quality Improvement methodology

Education

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

Professional registration with HCPC

Teaching, coaching or mentorship qualification

PhD or equivalent doctoral qualification

Job description

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Paramedic Urgent and Emergency Care

The closing date is 22 December 2025

The Consultant Paramedic in Urgent and Emergency Care will provide professional leadership to ensure the highest standards of care are delivered through expertise, effective clinical leadership and role modelling.

Aligned to the national Consultant Practitioner Capabilities Framework, the post holder will possess highly developed capabilities at consultant practice level to influence policy and the clinical agenda, inform practice through research, provide expert clinical input into educational programmes and deliver both traditional and innovative teaching for the Trust's clinicians.

Maintaining professional competence through regular clinical practice (0.2WTE), they will use their expertise to provide consultancy on relevant matters to a range of stakeholders. While providing emergency care leadership and expertise for the whole organization. They will also provide visible clinical leadership and ensure excellent governance to all aspects of emergency care. The post holder will line manage the clinical audit team and will be expected to deputise for the Chief Paramedic when required.

Main duties of the job

As a senior manager within South Central Ambulance Service you will be required to provide visible and effective leadership to your team and beyond to ensure the effective provision of the service they provide and to champion change in the organisation.

You will ensure that your team are motivated and express a positive attitude towards the organisation. You will address any issues and concerns that may inhibit your team from achieving both their personal and organisational goals.

About us

Benefits we offer:

• Full training and a range of courses which you can book locally.
• Holiday entitlement of 27 days, rising to 29 days after 5 years' service and 33 days after 10 years' service, plus an additional 8 days bank holiday (pro rata for part time).
• Automatic enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development within SCAS and the wider NHS.
• Occupational Health support and direct access to our Employee Assistance Programme as well as our own Health and Wellbeing Team.
• NHS Discounts in over 200 + stores saving money on holidays, days out, car insurance, restaurants, clothing and much more.
• Ability to join our staff networking groups (as a member, ally or just for interest).

Corporate Induction

It's really important for us to ensure you have the best onboarding experience which allows you to feel a sense of belonging from the start. To help with this, we will book your Corporate Induction as soon as we possibly can (depending on availability).

All new starters need to attend our Corporate Induction in person, this is held over one and half days from our educational centres based in: Newbury (Berkshire), Bicester (Oxfordshire) or Whiteley (Hampshire). More specific details will be sent to you once your start date has been confirmed.

Please note - depending on your role additional training may be required following on from your corporate induction.

Job responsibilities

Please review the detailed Job Description and Person Specification documents prior to applying for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Clinically focused MSc (eg Advanced Clinical Practice)
• Professional registration with HCPC
• Teaching, coaching or mentorship qualification
• Current driving licence (manual) with C1
• PhD or equivalent doctoral qualification (or working towards)
• Leadership qualification and development in the pre hospital setting
• Experience in leading practice (including acting as a Consultant Paramedic or equivalent level of responsibility)
• A recognised qualification in Quality Improvement methodology

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.

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

£76,965 to £88,682 a year pro rata per annum