HEMS Specialist Paramedics

Ambucopter Trading Limited; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25–30 days

Birthday leave

Pension scheme

Health & Wellbeing care plan

Sick pay

Life insurance

Job summary

Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance (LNAA) is recruiting a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Specialist Paramedic (Critical Care) to deliver advanced prehospital care across Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and beyond. The role reports to the Deputy Lead Paramedic within a dynamic clinical leadership team.

Candidates must be UK HCPC registered Paramedics with extensive frontline prehospital experience, and demonstrate ongoing professional development and strong teamwork to support

Qualifications

• UK HCPC registered Paramedic with frontline prehospital emergency experience.
• Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD).
• Strong ethos of teamwork and discipline to work in a paramedic doctor team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the optimal clinical response and emergency critical care to patients.
• Work within the paramedic doctor team under clinical leadership.
• Adhere to local and national guidelines, policies and procedures.

Skills

HCPC registered Paramedic

Prehospital emergency care

Teamwork

Job description

At the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance (LNAA) an exciting opportunity has arisen to expand our clinical team, and we are looking to recruit to the post of Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) Specialist Paramedic (Critical Care). Capable of delivering the optimal clinical response for our patients and providing the highest level of emergency critical care to the ill and injured patients of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and beyond.

Rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission across all five domains - Safe, Caring, Effective, Responsive and Well led. We are a friendly, inclusive, and dynamic team focused on ensuring we deliver the best possible service. The tie that binds us here at LNAA is our set of values - Teamwork. Respect. Innovation. Compassion (TRIC). We display these attributes in the way we interact with the people we meet, from former patients and volunteers to our supporters and colleagues.

Candidates should be motivated and experienced clinicians, focused on holistically developing themselves and the service in operational, clinical, and academic areas.

Candidates will need to possess a strong ethos of teamwork and discipline to function successfully as part of our current paramedic team, forming part of a paramedic doctor team, with a view to delivering safe, effective care whilst ensuring knowledge of local and National guidelines, and adherence to policies and procedures.

Candidates must be a UK HCPC registered Paramedic with extensive experience within a frontline prehospital emergency operational environment. The candidate should be able to evidence continuous professional development and demonstrate a good understanding of both technical and non-technical skills in healthcare environments. On a day-to-day basis the role will report into the Deputy Lead Paramedic, with direction and guidance of the Lead Paramedic, and wider clinical and operational leadership team, in supporting the delivery of LNAA key strategic objectives.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Candidates will undergo a three-stage recruitment process. Only candidates successful at each stage will progress forward to the next stage..

• Application / shortlisting
• Written exam, fitness test and objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE's) - 20th November
• Interview and presentation - 27th November 2026

The above dates will be held at LNAA HQ, Hems way, Lincoln, LN4 2GW. Timings of the stages will be confirmed on successful completion of each stage.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation for Offenders Act (Exemptions Order) 1975 and as such, applicants must disclose their full history, including spent offences. 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 convictions.

• Annual Leave of 25 days, which increases by 1 additional day per completed year of service up to a maximum of 30 days. in addition to bank holidays (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Additional days leave for your birthday.
• Pension scheme includes 6% employer contributions, with 4% employee contribution.
• Access to a Health & Wellbeing Care Plan*
• Occupational Sick Pay Scheme*
• Life insurance at 3 times your annual salary*

*On completion of probationary period.

Please note that we are currently unable to sponsor applicants for work visas in the UK. Therefore, you must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position. Applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship will not be considered.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

For further information and informal discussion, please contact Rob Fillmer - Deputy Lead Paramedic, LNAA. [e-mail]