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Specialist Practitioner (Paramedic/Nurse) - Trust Wide

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
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Location
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 Section 2 unsocial hours enhancement
Profession
Paramedic
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
18 May 2025
Contract Type
Permanent: All EMAS Divisions
Posted Date
01 May 2025

Job overview

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust are seeking to recruit another cohort of Specialist Practitioners in Emergency & Urgent Care to join our established group of Specialists Practitioners working across the region.

The Role

The Specialist Practitioner (SP) will respond to a wide range of patients calling EMAS for emergency and urgent care support. You may provide specialist advice or support within the emergency operations centre as well as providing a solo response to service users in the community. The Specialist Practitioner will provide enhanced assessment and decision making for patients, who are presenting with critical injury or illness, clinical complexity, have an un-differentiated diagnosis or present with minor illness or injury.

Main duties of the job

You will need to be confident to work with service users to formulate evidence based, safe and effective clinical plans, working with other healthcare professionals and utilising a broad range of patient group directions (PGDs). You will identify opportunities for safe community-based care, whilst avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions. Additionally, Specialist Practitioners may directly refer patients to specialist areas where pathways exist.

An important part of the Specialist Practitioner role is to provide specialist advice to junior clinicians and to provide clinical leadership at complex calls, critical incidents and cardiac arrests.

To undertake, as required duties in the Emergency Operations Centres/Clinical Hubs, in a clinical advisory capacity, supporting the triaging and prioritisation of emergency and urgent calls to determine appropriate service responses. This includes assessment and co-ordination of clinical advice calls from operational ambulance crews and responders

Posts are available across all EMAS Divisions, please state clearly in the application your first choice of Division to work within. Base locations will be explored further at interview and with successful applicants.

The Specialist Practitioner is a Band 7 role (Agenda for Change) and subject to Section 2 Unsocial Hours Payments (NHS Terms & Conditions Handbook).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please carefully review the pre-requisites required to be eligible for shortlisting.  Applications that do not clearly demonstrate the below criteria will not be progressed in this recruitment:

  • You must be Registered with a regulatory body (HCPC/NMC)
  • You must have at least 36 months relevant post registration clinical experience by the 20th June 2025 and have experience as a Band 6 Paramedic/Practitioner
  • You must hold at at least 80 credits of post registration module completion at academic level 6 or above.
  • The degree/modules you present must be clinical and relevant to the Specialist Practitioner role. For example, Clinical Practice, Professional Practice, Specialist Practice.
  • Within your degree you should have completed modules relevant to clinical assessment, complex decision making and clinical leadership.

Selection Process

There are two stages to the Specialist Practitioner selection:

Stage 1, requires you to submit an online application form via TRAC jobs. You should carefully read the advert, job description and person specification and ensure your application indicates how you meet the eligibility requirements for the role. You will always be asked for proof of your clinical and academic qualifications and must be able to provide certification and transcripts. Please ensure you clearly list all professional and academic qualifications/modules.

Stage 2,  shortlisted applicants will be invited to an EMAS Specialist Practitioner credentialing assessment day. This will comprise a range of objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) relevant to the role, a formal interview, and a theory assessment (written exam).

Please ensure you carefully read the EMAS credentialing information prior to the events.

Applicants must be available to attend one of the credentialing assessment dates: 26th June, 3rd & 4th July at assessment centres within EMAS. Applicants who are unable to attend assessment dates will be withdrawn from the recruitment process.

Those Specialists that are appointed to the role will attend an induction and training course, prior to operationalisation. During this time, Specialist Practitioners will complete role specific internal development including PGDs, skills review, referral pathways and trauma/cardiac arrest leadership, as well as completing supernumerary shifts with Specialist Practitioner mentors.

If you have any further questions or for an informal conversation about the role please contact Lorna Pearson ([email protected]) or Charlie Till ([email protected])

Bank working

We are currently undertaking a review of our Specialist Practitioner bank position and are not recruiting directly to bank in this recruitment intake.