Trust Doctor (eqv to ST6+) in Prehospital Care: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job summary

Our prehospital service is provided by Barts Health NHS Trust in partnership with the London’s Air Ambulance charity, and the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Clinical governance, leadership and support is provided by Barts Health, who are responsible for the doctors. Paramedics are provided by the London Ambulance Service and receive specialist training prior to undertaking their duties. London’s Air Ambulance charity plays a vital role in delivering many aspects of the service including the essential helicopter and rapid response car assets, but also an infrastructure that enables excellent care to be delivered to patients.

Our doctor-paramedic team responds to major trauma patients within the Greater London area, by helicopter during daylight hours and using rapid response cars during the hours of darkness.

We are looking to appoint four part time Senior Fellows for a period of 12 months starting September/October. These Senior Fellows will cover night shifts (Medic 2 car) around Clinical Governance Days each month and 1 in 4 weekends late shifts (Medic 3 Saturday & Sunday – aircraft and car in extended daylight hours). This position is ONLY open to individuals who have worked as a HEMS Fellow between September 2025 and August 2026. One senior fellow post will be offered a three-year appointment with specific responsibilities for Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response training.

Main duties of the job

Key Working Relationships The service employs a number of substantive consultants, with most working a 3PA annualised rota commitment. Senior Fellows in prehospital care will work both alongside consultants and independently (with telephone consultant advice) on a 24/7 rota commitment contributing 0.3WTE. In addition to clinical shifts, doctors have opportunities to reflect and learn from cases, realise the impact of their patient assessment and interventions, and provide peer review of the cases of others. Regular scheduled meetings include death and disability meetings, Clinical Governance days and the opportunity to hear from forensic pathologists to correlate clinical and postmortem findings. Supervision, continuing professional development, definition of core standards and mentoring will be coordinated by the Medical Director and Clinical Lead for Pre-hospital care with peer support from the consultants. In addition to Consultant level practitioners, the medical team includes six full-time ‘flight physicians in pre-hospital care,’ Most of these clinicians undertake 6-month rotational secondments with the service. You will be expected to support the learning and development of this group of physicians and the seconded and permanent paramedics during shifts and educational activities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MB ChB or equivalent
  • Post graduate qualifications of MRCEM, FRCA, FRCS or equivalent

Desirable

  • Post graduate diploma in related specialist area, e.g. DipIMC, FIMC, DipRTM or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • MUST have finished a London HEMS Fellow secondment within the last 12 months to be considered (i.e. August 2025 – August 2026)

Desirable

  • Experience of training other doctors in prehospital care

Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrates insight into personal qualities and deficiencies
  • Demonstrates ability to support and nurture colleagues

Desirable

  • Demonstrates commitment to the specialty of prehospital care

Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrates engagement in team-working having delivered a contribution to a medical team
  • Ability to engage with charity and NHS partners in maintaining the profile of an organisation
  • Resuscitation skills commensurate with experience but demonstrable at a competent level including RSI and Central venous access

Other

Essential

  • The post holder be required to work a clinical shift rota designed to meet emergency care demand. This will include day, evening, night and weekend shifts
  • Must be able to fit in proposed Medic 2 and 3 shifts within the job holder’s current job plan

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

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