Consultant Paramedic - Urgent Care
London, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 4 days ago
The Consultant Paramedic (Urgent Care) is a senior clinical leadership role responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care through strong clinical leadership, supervision, and governance. The role leads the development and implementation of urgent and primary care services across the organisation, providing expert clinical advice and driving improvements in patient outcomes. It also plays a key role in workforce development, education, and research, while working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to deliver integrated, patient-centred care aligned to organisational strategy
The postholder provides clinical leadership and advanced practice support to urgent care and specialist paramedic teams, including mentorship, supervision, and expert advice on complex cases. They lead the development and delivery of urgent and primary care strategy, including service redesign, care pathways, and initiatives to improve safe non-conveyance. The role includes acting as an expert consultant across the organisation and system, supporting multidisciplinary teams and driving service modernisation. Responsibilities also include leading education, training, and research activity to enhance workforce capability and improve patient outcomes. In addition, the role requires building strong partnerships across the healthcare system, contributing to governance and patient safety processes, managing staff and resources effectively, and ensuring continuous quality improvement through clinical governance, risk management, and service evaluation.
Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tim Edwards Job title: Consultant Paramedic & Associate Clinical Director Email address: timothy.edwards2@nhs.net Telephone number: 07717808399
The postholder provides clinical leadership and advanced practice support to urgent care and specialist paramedic teams, including mentorship, supervision, and expert advice on complex cases. They lead the development and delivery of urgent and primary care strategy, including service redesign, care pathways, and initiatives to improve safe non-conveyance. The role includes acting as an expert consultant across the organisation and system, supporting multidisciplinary teams and driving service modernisation. Responsibilities also include leading education, training, and research activity to enhance workforce capability and improve patient outcomes. In addition, the role requires building strong partnerships across the healthcare system, contributing to governance and patient safety processes, managing staff and resources effectively, and ensuring continuous quality improvement through clinical governance, risk management, and service evaluation.
Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
- Our care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
- Our organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
- Our London – using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tim Edwards Job title: Consultant Paramedic & Associate Clinical Director Email address: timothy.edwards2@nhs.net Telephone number: 07717808399
