Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Urgent and Emergency Care)

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust; Crawley; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in urgent and emergency care is seeking a Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner. This exciting role offers a pathway to an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, combining hands-on clinical experience with academic learning. You'll work across various settings, providing vital care and leadership while enhancing patient outcomes. Join a dedicated team committed to delivering high-quality care to communities, with opportunities for personal and professional development. If you're passionate about making a difference in healthcare, this role is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

27 days' holiday

Personal and professional development

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Access to occupational health services

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Minimum 2.2 degree in Paramedic Science or related field required.
• Experience in clinical practice with leadership and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in urgent and emergency care to improve patient outcomes.
• Utilize clinical practice to assess and manage patients across settings.

Skills

Clinical competence

Communication skills

Leadership

Research and audit

Patient care

Education

Degree in Paramedic Science or related subject

Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE)

Research qualification

Job description

Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Urgent and Emergency Care)

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area: Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Urgent and Emergency Care) Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref: 278-TAPPP-0125-LH

Site: South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Town: Crawley Salary: £37,338 - £52,809. Commences at Band 6. Uplift to Band 7 at start of year 3. Salary period: Yearly Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59 Interview date: 15/03/2025

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and aim to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.

Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year.

Job overview

Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Urgent and Emergency Care)

September 2025 Intake

Locations: Chertsey, Dartford and Medway, Gatwick and Banstead, Guildford, Polegate and Hastings, Tangmere and Worthing, Thanet.

We are pleased to announce the opportunity for experienced paramedics to apply for the developmental role of Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Urgent and Emergency Care).

As an advancing practice role in Urgent and Emergency Care, you will undertake a broad programme of education and professional development jointly delivered by South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, City St. Georges University of London, and Kent, Surrey and Sussex Primary Care Department.

This developmental programme involves a range of clinical practice placements and a 3 year academic pathway culminating in an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice (accredited by NHS England Centre for Advancing Practice).

Through undertaking this programme, the Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Urgent and Emergency Care) will be supported to enhance their knowledge, skills, and critical thinking to develop expertise in urgent and emergency care.

This role will require flexibility in adopting new ways of working to embrace the four pillars of advanced practice.

The Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Urgent and Emergency Care) role commences at Band 6 (plus relevant unsocial hours payments) with uplift to Band 7 on commencement of year 3 of the programme.

Main duties of the job

The main role of an Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Urgent and Emergency Care) is to provide expertise in urgent and emergency care to promote improved patient outcomes and experience.

1. Utilise an extended scope of clinical practice and formulary to assess and manage undifferentiated patients across a multitude of clinical settings.
2. Provide clinical leadership, supervision, and support.
3. Facilitate education as a subject matter expert.
4. Enhance practice outcomes through research, audit, and service development.

Working for our organisation

• Option to join NHS pension scheme
• A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
• Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
• Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
• Access to occupational health and counselling services.
• Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Trainee Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, you will progress through a 3 year developmental programme converting theory into practice whilst supported by an allocated supervisor.

This role involves a varied job plan, including 40% of your time working on an Advanced Paramedic Practitioner single response vehicle providing operational urgent and emergency care, 40% of your time working in an Urgent Care Hub providing remote clinical assessment, advice, and support to staff and patients, and 20% of your working time undertaking professional leadership activities such as clinical supervision, education and research. It is a requirement of the role that you are able to fulfil all elements.

Successful applicants will need to meet academic entry requirements of City St Georges University, London. These can be found: Entry Criteria.

You will be required to demonstrate excellent clinical competence and patient care, robust communication skills, a forward thinking and positive approach, ability to study at level 7 and a commitment to complete the 3 year educational pathway.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree (2.2 or above) in Paramedic Science or related subject OR as a MINIMUM, completion of a Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE) and one of the following completed within the last five years: 1) successful completion of a standalone module at level M OR 2) a minimum of 30 credits from standalone modules at level 6, at or above grade B (60%).
• IHCD/FutureQuals Emergency Driving
• Relevant CPD relating to Urgent and Emergency Care
• Research qualification

Experience

• Significant experience of clinical practice (equivalent to at least four years post-registration experience, with two years at band 6)
• Evidence of understanding Enhanced and Advanced Practice
• Experience of supervising or mentoring healthcare professionals
• Demonstrable experience of working in pre-hospital care within an NHS ambulance environment or similar
• Demonstrates leadership in practice
• Experience of delivering or facilitating education
• Experience of undertaking or participating in research, service evaluation or audit
• Experience of undertaking remote consultations or provision of remote healthcare advice

Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.

Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.

Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.

Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.

The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.

The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable.

We are committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.

When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.

The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work-related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.

Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact [e-mail] stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.

Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.

Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.