Main area Paramedic Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (rotating shifts to include days, lates, nights, weekends and bank holidays) Job ref 470-8076218-TSW
Employer Isle of Wight NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site St Mary's Hospital Town Newport, Isle of Wight Salary Per annum, plus unsocial hours enhancements as worked Closing 28/06/2026 23:59
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent & Emergency Care
Band 8a
Job overview
We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent & Emergency Care (Band 8a) or Specialist Paramedic Urgent & Emergency Care (Band 7) who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS.
You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together”
We are seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent & Emergency Care (please see attached Band 8A Job Description) or Specialist Paramedic Urgent & Emergency Care (SP) (see attached Band 7 JD) who will provide enhanced clinical support and supervision of staff across a range of clinical settings.
Working as an autonomous practitioner within a MDT, you will provide advanced clinical management and coordination of complex and challenging care to patients in clinically demanding situations and environments.
Main duties of the job
- Provide highly specialist, person-centred care that consistently upholds patient safety, privacy, and dignity, using advanced, evidence-based clinical knowledge.
- Practice as an autonomous clinician within a multi-professional team, remaining accountable and self-directed in accordance with professional codes of conduct.
- Undertake comprehensive assessments and independently plan, deliver, and manage complete episodes of care, including complex clinical decision-making and pharmacological considerations.
- Deliver advanced clinical management for patients with urgent and emergency care needs, ensuring appropriate assessment, treatment, and care pathways in line with Trust policies, national guidelines (e.g. NICE, JRCALC), and current legislation.
- Provide expert clinical advice, leadership, and support to ensure high-quality service delivery, demonstrating advanced clinical judgement, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
- Act as a senior clinical leader, providing supervision, support, and performance management to junior staff and leading teams on duty to prioritise patient care effectively.
- Participate in and contribute to clinical audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives to monitor and enhance standards of care.
- Identify, report, and proactively manage clinical risks, ensuring patient safety is maintained at all times.
- Contribute to the development, implementation, and review of policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines.
Working for our organisation
Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Promote evidence-based practice and integrate research findings into clinical care to ensure best practice is achieved
- Identify and support the educational and development needs of self and colleagues, contributing to a culture of continuous learning.
- Support the planning and development of integrated services and work collaboratively with senior management and clinical leads to implement innovative ways of working.
- Operate as an autonomous practitioner within scope of practice, utilising advanced competencies including prescribing (where applicable) or Patient Group Directions (PGDs).
- Respond to and manage cases as directed by the Clinical Coordination Centre, including acting as a primary responder, co-responder, or additional clinical resource.
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
Person specification
Qualifications
- HCPC registered paramedic or NMC
- Completion of Master Programme for Advanced Clinical Practice or Completion of Post Graduate Certificate or Equivalent
- Accredited blue light driving qualification
- Non-Medical prescriber
Experience
- Significant pre-hospital experience in both the emergency and primary care setting, working as an autonomous practitioner assessing, diagnosing, treating and discharging the full range of patient ages and presentations both injury and illness.
Certification
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
