Newly Qualified Paramedic - Mid & South Essex

NHS; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Southend is hiring a Newly Qualified Paramedic. This role is focused on delivering outstanding patient care and includes a comprehensive structured mentorship program. Candidates must be graduates by January 2026 and live within one hour of the Southend Ambulance Hub. The position offers opportunities for career progression and supportive work environments.

Benefits

Minimum of 27 days annual leave

Free parking

Access to mental health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Candidates must have graduated or be due to graduate by January 2026.
• Full UK manual Driving Licence, C1 Licence preferred.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Responsibilities

• Deliver CQC rated 'outstanding' care to patients.
• Manage diverse health emergencies from birth to end of life.
• Participate in clinical mentorship during a structured transition.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Paramedic care

Education

Current student on a HCPC approved Paramedic programme

Job description

Newly Qualified Paramedic - Mid & South Essex

This advert is for vacancies in Southend 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.

This vacancy is Southend-based only. Candidates must live within one hour's travel of the Southend Ambulance Hub 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. #WeAreEEASTEEAST 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.

At EEAST recruitment, we would like to wish you the best of 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
• 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.