# Strategic Medical Advisor

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne
- **Profession:** Manager and corporate
- **Salary:** £14,547 Per Annum
- **Contract type:** Ad-hoc: On call rota
- **Employment type:** Part time - 1 in 6 on-call rota
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-23T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03T07:01:49.861Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Newcastle_upon_Tyne/North_East_Ambulance_Service_NHS_Foundation_Trust/On_Call_Consultant/On_Call_Consultant-v8128377
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8128377?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.neas.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you an experienced senior clinician with the ability to provide calm, strategic leadership during major incidents, periods of operational escalation and system-wide pressures?

North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly credible and experienced Strategic Medical Adviser (SMA) to join our Medical Directorate and support the Trust’s response to major incidents, mass casualty events and significant operational pressures across the North East healthcare system.

This is a unique and influential opportunity for a Consultant, GP Principal or equivalent senior clinician to work at the highest level of emergency preparedness, resilience and response, helping to ensure patients receive safe, effective and clinically-led care during some of the most challenging circumstances faced by the NHS.

### Main duties of the job

The Strategic Medical Adviser plays a critical role in supporting the Trust’s Strategic Commander during major incidents and periods of excessive system demand. Acting as the senior clinical adviser within the command structure, you will provide expert strategic oversight, specialist medical advice and clinical leadership to support operational decision-making and patient flow across the region.

You will work closely with ambulance operational teams, Emergency Operations Centre colleagues, Acute Trusts, NHS England and partner agencies to coordinate clinical resources, support casualty distribution and help maintain safe and effective services during critical incidents.

The role may involve providing strategic clinical oversight within the Command Cell, Emergency Operations Centre or, where required, at the scene of an incident.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure you refer to the job description attached for more information about the role and its responsibilities

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Evidence of clinical management and leadership skills
- Evidence of working across NHS organisational boundaries

### Education, Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- - Consultant or equivalent accountable grade with a current licence to practise
- - Affiliated to a Designated Body
- - Minimum 3 years working at Consultant, GP Principal or Equivalent Grade
- - Annual appraisals leading to revalidation
- - Formal Support of your host Trust guaranteeing availability when on call
- - Appropriate professional indemnity
- - Evidence of clinical management and leadership

**Desirable**

- Advanced Life Support (ALS)
- Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
- Major Incident Medical Management (MIMMS)
- Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
- Strategic Leadership in a Crisis
- Fellowship/Diploma in Immediate Care (Royal College of Surgeons)
- Experience in NHS Emergency Planning & Preparedness
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries and developing multi-disciplinary professional partnerships

## Documents

- [recruitment policy (pdf, 280.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2814)
- [strategic medical adviser jd (pdf, 313.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10425425)
- [use of artificial intelligence (pdf, 168.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3053)
- [collection of personal data explained (pdf, 416.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2812)
- [applicant guidance notes july 2025 neas (pdf, 312.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2966)

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