Newly Qualified Paramedic (Colchester and Clacton)

East of England Ambulance Service; Tendring, Colchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading emergency service organization in the United Kingdom is seeking Newly Qualified Paramedics to join their team. This role involves delivering exceptional patient care in various settings and working alongside a dedicated team. Candidates must be current students in a HCPC approved program and should have a valid UK driving license. Opportunities for progression and support are provided.

Benefits

Minimum of 27 days annual leave

Access to 24/7 clinical advice

Free parking

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have graduated, or due to graduate by January 2026.
• Experience from university placements with EEAST highly valued.
• Full UK manual Driving Licence required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver outstanding care to patients.
• Work with a team of clinical staff and volunteers.
• Manage various medical emergencies in diverse environments.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Care skills

Education

Current student on a HCPC approved Paramedic programme

HCPC Registered Paramedic

Tools

Driving License

Emergency Response Driving Qualification

Job description

Newly Qualified Paramedic (Colchester and Clacton)

This vacancy is for candidates for North-East Essex (Clacton) and North-West Essex (Colchester) ONLY.

Please note: Candidates who have applied and completed the recruitment process within the past 6 months are not eligible to apply at this time.

We are welcoming applications fromstudentsto continue their Paramedic career with the East of England Ambulance Service Trust. This means applicants must have have graduated, or are due to graduate by January 2026. If you have completed university placements with EEAST, please include this in your application.

Candidates must live within one hour's travel of Colchester or ClactonAmbulance Station or be willing to relocate to be eligible to apply.

Transfer Restrictions:Successful applicants will not be eligible to join the internal transfer list for a period of 24 months while completing their consolidation period.

Main duties of the job

At EEAST we expect our paramedic workforce to continue to deliver CQC rated 'outstanding' care to our patients and work harmoniously alongside our dedicated team of clinical staff, volunteers, call handlers and dispatchers and support services. Paramedics will routinely work with other Allied Health Professionals in partnership organisations in both hospitals and community based services to ensure safe referrals and discharge.

A shift on an ambulance is like no other workplace. You will operate in a wide range of environments, across both urban and rural areas managing everything from birth to end of life, chronic conditions to critical illness or injury.

The two-year NQP consolidation provides you with a structured, nationally developed program of support, mentorship and supervision allowing you to transition from newly qualified in to a confident and fully autonomous clinician.

Support includes:

• 150-300 hours supervised practice in first 12 weeks after registration with an experienced paramedic.
• Practice Educator course completion at 9 months onwards, via Trust approved practice education program.
• A 24/7 Clinical Advice Line to validate your clinical decision-making, discharging planning and practice, advice on procedures or elevate critical, complex on scene decisions.
• Personally issued tablet to access electronic patient care records, up to date clinical guidelines, incident management and alternative care pathway applications.

About us

Our vision - Outstanding care, exceptional people, every hour of every day. #WeAreEEAST

EEAST employs over 5,000 staff with a further 1,000+ volunteers who between them cover 7,500 square miles and care for a population of more than 6 million.

Our three control rooms in Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Essex handle more than 1 million 999 calls every year, over 2,500 calls a day.

We manage a fleet of over 1,000 vehicles including double staffed ambulances, rapid response cars, operational commander response vehicles, patient transport and support service vehicles.

The East of England works alongside 17 Acute Trusts with Accident & Emergency services and a Major Trauma Centre in Cambridge. Access is available to neighbouring MTCs such as those in London.

Our core values:

• We are accountable
• We are respectful
• We strive to be excellent

Our 4 goals are:

Be an exceptional place to work, volunteer and learn

Provide outstanding quality of care and performance

Be excellent collaborators and innovators as system partners

Be an environmentally and financially sustainable organisation

Job responsibilities

Benefits include:

• Career progression opportunities in to advanced clinical practice, leadership, education or research
• Access to 24/7 clinical advice, Critical Care desk and an Operational Commander
• Additional 5% fringe (high cost area) in certain areas of Hertfordshire and Essex
• C1 reimbursement of up to £1,000 (subject to terms and conditions)
• Level 3 Emergency Response Driving certificate
• Pay enhancement for out of hours shift working
• Free parking
• Minimum of 27 days annual leave
• Occupational Health services including a 24hr Employee Assistance Program, mental health and wellbeing, legal and financial services
• Staff support networks BAME, LGBTQ+, Multi Faith and All Women in EEAST.

Please review the Job Description and Person Specification.

Good luck with your application and thank you for considering EEAST as your future employer.

Person Specification

Registration & Qualifications

• Current student on a HCPC approved Paramedic programme
• On placement with East of England Ambulance Service
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (College of Paramedics membership, PHTLS, Resuscitation Council ALS etc)
• HCPC Registered Paramedic (Check register)

Skills & Experience

• Documents the skills and knowledge required for the role (for example care, communication, teamwork)

Driving

• Full UK manual Driving Licence ( a maximum of 3 points for minor offences may be considered)
• Emergency Response Driving Qualification
• C1 Licence (1 for provisional)

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.