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Job overview
The Northwest Ambulance Service (NWAS) is expanding its clinical workforce and looking for experienced Nurses and Paramedics.
The post provides an exciting opportunity for motivated Paramedics and Nurses to be involved in the Trusts delivery model. Rotating between the Integrated Contact Centre (ICC), providing telephone triage to NWAS patients and responding from designated NWAS sites to patients who have the potential to be treated at home. You will be responding in a non-emergency vehicle.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an experienced Paramedic or Nurse, who acting within their professional boundaries, will provide enhanced clinical decision making to support pathways of care to lower acuity patients both through telephone consultation and face to face assessment. You will ensure the delivery of excellent patient care through the continuous achievement of high clinical standards. You will work autonomously and support patients within our community. You will be expected to undertake relevant research and development activities and to support underpinning knowledge. Opportunity to achieve a Level 7 Advanced Clinical Practice module will be provided if you do not already hold this qualification. You will also provide guidance and mentorship to peers within your role.
These posts will suit highly motivated patient-focused practitioners who wish to further develop their clinical skills and experience by working in an urgent and emergency care setting. So, if you are comfortable working autonomously whilst having the support of a close clinical team and want to work for an organisation who is rethinking the way urgent and emergency care is delivered apply now.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role will provide enhanced clinical decision making to support pathways of care to patients through telephone consultation and face to face assessment.
The telephone consultation element will be undertaken within the Trust’s clinical hub sites. Successful applicants will receive appropriate training in telephone triage. The face-to-face element will involve practitioners working in a solo capacity responding in a car, with the ability to undertake telephone consultation remotely before attendance. Please note that practitioners will not be required to attend emergencies driving under blue light conditions.
· Objective Structured Clinical Examination week commencing 03 August 26.
· Successful candidates will be invited to interview week commencing 10 August 26.
Person specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Required to use a VDU for periods during the working day.
- Able to concentrate for extended periods during repeated assessments and telephone consultation with patients.
- Able to rotate between Contact Centre and Operational practice settings to provide supervision and mentoring to clinicians.
- Frequently required to deal with patients experiencing the effects of both short and long-term chronic disease, including the communication of unwelcome news.
- Enhanced dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for clinical assessment and physical treatment of patients in operational practice
- Full valid UK driving licence.
- Computer literacy skills and capable of operating a computer using Microsoft and other software programs.
- Flexibility on working hours and location.
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- Registered Paramedic with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (UK).
- DipHE/FDg in Nursing (Nurse applicants).
- Paramedic Sciences or equivalent healthcare qualification (Paramedic applicants).
- Level 7 (or working towards) in Health Assessment.
- BSc in Nursing or Paramedic Sciences or other relevant healthcare qualification (or working towards).
Skills, knowledge and experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a substantive pre-hospital, Emergency Department or Primary Care role with evidence of credible experience to the role specification.
- Expert knowledge of pre-hospital care & urgent care systems with the ability to demonstrate credibility.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Evidence of leadership ability.
- Evidence of relevant CPD.
- Evidence of Teaching / Training Staff.
- Appreciation of national standards and national policy in relation to Ambulance Services.
- Ability to effectively work as part of a team.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other health professionals across a variety of settings and environments.
- Understanding of the commissioning process leading to service development within the NHS.
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This advert is for UEC Advanced Practitioner with North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust in Bolton, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Jul 2026.
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