Specialist Paramedic Mental Health | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust; South Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust in South Yorkshire is seeking a Specialist Paramedic Mental Health to provide enhanced clinical management for mental health crises and support teams on scene. Duties include assessing complex patient needs, mentoring staff, and working collaboratively across various healthcare settings. The role offers flexible working hours, professional development opportunities, and contributions towards a pension scheme. Applicants must complete a PGDip qualification during employment, transitioning from Paramedic Mental Health to Specialist Paramedic Mental Health upon successful completion.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service

Contributory Pension

NHS Discounts

Employee assistance and counselling service

Opportunities for research participation and career progression

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health and crisis intervention required.
• Ability to assess, diagnose, treat, and manage complex health needs.
• Knowledge of patient-centered care principles in urgent situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical support in mental health emergencies.
• Build relationships with colleagues and external organizations.
• Support training and development within the organization.

Skills

Enhanced clinical management

Crisis intervention

Clinical judgment

Patient assessment

Education

PGDip qualification

Job description

The Specialist Paramedic Mental Health (SPMH) will work on the Mental Health Response Vehicles (MHRVs), rotate into the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) to provide support to patients over the phone and to crews on scene where necessary, and undertake rotation into partner organisations including primary care, crisis teams and third sector providers to continue their own development and support with closer working relationships. The SPMH operates at the Specialist Paramedic level, providing enhanced clinical support and supervision of staff across a range of incidents within the pre-hospital environment.

Working with greater autonomy, the post holder will provide enhanced clinical management of both Mental and Physical health concerns and coordinate the care of patients with complex and challenging healthcare needs, responding to patients with acute or critical illness, serious injury or major trauma in emotive and demanding situations or environments. The Specialist Paramedic Mental Health will support patients experiencing mental health crisis when they need a response (either telephone or face to face from the ambulance service).

Vacancy location:
South Yorkshire – Doncaster Ambulance Station

Patient Care

• Provide a Trust-wide specialist source of experience and knowledge around mental health issues and crisis
• Undertake an enhanced assessment of patients with complex health needs, ensuring that care is planned to best meet their Mental and Physical Health needs in the pre-hospital setting.
• Exercise your own clinical judgement to assess, diagnose, treat, refer and/or discharge patients with undifferentiated injury and/or illness
• Apply enhanced knowledge, make balanced and pragmatic decisions relating to end of life care and futility of resuscitation; placing the patient’s best interests and wishes at the heart of such decisions.

Communication and Relationship Responsibilities

• Develop working relationships with colleagues, peers and operational/clinical managers across all directorates and divisions within the Trust as appropriate to undertake the role
• Develop working relationships with external organisations in order to access support for patients and to positively promote the Trust and the role of Paramedics
• The post holder will be required on a regular basis to communicate with people who may be experiencing significant distress and in situations which are complex, and highly charged

Benefits

• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce

Leadership, Management, Training and Supervision Responsibilities

• Providing mentorship and support to any clinician or non clinician as required
• Supporting the delivery of training and development activities across the organisation within their area of expertise and capability
• Demonstrating clinical leadership through role modelling professional behaviours that influence the provision of high clinical standards and promote exemplary behaviours in others.
• Developing and maintaining a personal professional portfolio to underpin, and evidence their professional scope of practice and continuing professional development, as required by the Trust and professional regulatory body.
• Maintaining fitness to practice in line with the requirements of the professional regulatory body.

Planning and Organisational Responsibilities

• Manage the care requirements of the situation; assessing and triaging patients and advising and directing the public accordingly.
• Acting as a point of contact for the MHRV whilst on shift.Working in EOC, acting as a central point of clinical support, providing remote clinical advice and decision-support to clinicians across the Trust, in relation to urgent and emergency care; working to defined SOPs and guidelines.
• Whilst working on placement in MH trusts, to at all times act with in accordance with YAS values and via any honorary contacts in place with the values of partner organisations.

Training requirements

The PMH/SPMHs will be required to complete a PGDip qualification for the role. This will be delivered through an Emergency Care Practitioner Apprenticeship programme for Mental Health at Sheffield Hallam University and the qualification will result in a PGDip in Specialist Practice. The post title will be ‘Paramedic Mental Health’ during training, and then ‘Specialist Paramedic Mental Health’ once training is completed and the individual has passed the CASP process as a level 7 specialist practitioner.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025