The Consultant Paramedic – Emergency Care is a senior clinical leadership role responsible for ensuring the highest standards of patient care through expert leadership, supervision and innovation in emergency care practice. As part of the Trust’s senior clinical team, the postholder provides strategic and operational leadership, leading the development and implementation of emergency care initiatives while offering specialist clinical advice across the organisation.
The role combines advanced clinical practice with system-wide influence, including leading workforce development, supporting education programmes, and working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the Trust’s strategy. It also focuses on improving clinical outcomes through research, governance, and continuous service improvement, while embedding a culture of learning, safety and evidence-based practice
The postholder provides expert clinical leadership, delivers advanced clinical care, and oversees the development and implementation of emergency care services, pathways and policies. Responsibilities include supervising and developing clinical staff, contributing to strategy and service modernisation, leading research and education, and acting as a consultant for complex cases. The role also includes partnership working across multidisciplinary teams, driving quality improvement and clinical governance, managing risk and resources, and ensuring high standards of patient safety and care delivery across the service.
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.
To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
The role of the Consultant Paramedic (Emergency Care) is to ensure that the highest standard of patient care is delivered via effective clinical leadership and supervision. As part of the senior clinical team within the Trust they will provide leadership and supervision of clinical staff and lead on the implementation of developments in emergency care. This will include leading the professional development of the paramedic workforce and providing senior clinical advice to a range of colleagues.
The Consultant Paramedic will have responsibility for the following functions:
- To provide clinical leadership and support to the wider organization in relation to emergency care
- To provide clinical leadership, mentorship and senior clinical support to clinical staff. To provide expert input to clinical developments within the Trust, in relation to emergency care.
- To work closely with stakeholders, developing implementing and delivering the Trust’s strategy and business plan in relation to emergency care.
- Foster an open and transparent culture where people are willing to report and learn from incidents and near misses
- To support the Trust in the strategic development of both internal and external educational programs
- To provide expert clinical guidance in clinical case reviews
- The role will primarily be internally focused on the development of the implementation of the emergency care agenda within the LAS providing clinical leadership and development to Advanced Paramedic Practitioners (Critical Care), Clinical Team Managers and other specialist resources relating to emergency care
- To be part of the Clinical on call rotas
Other areas of responsibility will include:
- Joint working with multi-disciplinary teams to establish and provide new services for patients with reference to strategy documents produced by NHSE, Department of Health, NICE etc.
- Design and provide a patient-centred, seamless, integrated approach consistent with the principles of Clinical Governance
- Work clinically at a specialist or advanced practice level (emergency care) and maintain these competencies
- Providing an expert consultancy service to patients, carers and colleagues;
- Planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based care;
- Contributing to the development of the service by taking an active role in generating and disseminating knowledge across the organisation, and the pan-London area;
- Undertaking research in a specialist area that focuses on improving outcomes and experiences for patients, families and carers;
- Facilitating and providing education and training to staff and students;
This role encompasses a very strong professional leadership mandate including:
- Specifically addressing the issue of scope of practice developments for paramedics and other staff in emergency and critical care
- To oversee the development of advances in clinical care relating to resuscitation and hyper-acute pathways
- Providing clinical leadership and advice on strategic direction in their own specialist field of practice and service development ensuring a whole systems approach to the delivery of paramedic-led pre-hospital care.
