Qualified Paramedic: Sponsorship Available

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Job Summary

Based in one of the world’s most vibrant, diverse and exciting cities, it’s no surprise that we’re one of the world’s busiest ambulance services. Our Paramedics see all walks of London life. For you, it means a career like no other providing excellent patient care in the right place, at the right time.

We strive to provide our patients with the level of care that distinguishes us as a great service provider.

If you’d like to join us in improving our service in London the key skills and experience you will need are:

  • Qualified Paramedic with HCPC registration
  • 2 years post registration experience in clinical practice, or less if progressed through the national fast track programme
  • Completion of the NQP period
  • Possess a current full drivers licence, valid in the UK
  • Have no more than 3 penalty points
  • Full C1 and driving qualification
  • Experience of supervision, mentorship and development of a range of clinical staff in relevant practice setting

Main duties of the job

  • Our organisation is driven by our strategic objectives and organisational values and we look for people who are strongly aligned with them.
  • Be accountable for the assessment, treatment, diagnosis, supplying and administering of medicines, managing, discharging and referring patients in a range of urgent, emergency, critical or out of hospital settings.
  • Provide effective clinical leadership, development and mentorship to operational personnel, including newly qualified paramedics and students to support the delivery of a high quality patient centred service.
  • Contribute to the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of unscheduled/out of hours care involving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations.
  • Undertake the full range of paramedic duties in line with the Trust’s operational instructions.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • Are you a HCPC Registered Paramedic?

Skills/Knowledge & Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrable ability to handle stressful/sensitive situations with tact, diplomacy and assertiveness. Including self-discipline
  • Demonstrable ability to analyse, problem solve and make decisions.
  • Demonstrable ability to assess and examine patients presenting with a broad range of conditions.
  • Demonstrable ability to critically reflect on practice in order to improve patient care, including the future mitigation of errors.
  • Demonstrable ability to work autonomously
  • Demonstrable detailed understanding of appropriate care pathways, and ability to support mentees in their use.

Driving

Essential

  • Do you hold a full manual UK driving licence including vehicle categories C1 and B?

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).

Closing Date: 17 May 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.