Work with our Clinical Team
In 2025, we were called to a record-breaking 2,344 missions. That's an average of over six missions a day across the year.
Our crew are faced with the most complex and serious 999 calls in our region on a daily basis, taking the skills of a hospital Emergency Department to the scene of an incident. Our team really do help when someone needs us the most.
Do you want to work with a team that strives for clinical excellence in order to develop your own skills? Working with Great Western Air Ambulance Charity provides an excellent opportunity to use a range of skills in a unique environment on some of the most complicated critical care cases. Whether it is on a roadside or in someone's living room, our work will stimulate and challenge. In addition, we provide regular training opportunities to allow for the continued development of all of our clinical team.
Critical Care Doctor - Almondsbury Airbase (12 month contract)
£550 per shift (including administration time and rolled up pay) (Day shift 12 hrs/late shift 8 hrs)
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity is looking for an appropriately skilled and qualified Consultant to become part of the Critical Care Team. This is a replacement post and is based at the Emergency Air Operations Base, Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire, and working under the clinical direction of South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust.
The clinical team is dispatched to the most serious incidents and medical emergencies by helicopter or critical care car – 2,344 call outs in 2025. GWAAC is one of the busiest air ambulances in the country, covering rural and urban areas, treating both adults and children, and dealing with an even split of trauma and medical incidents. This role offers un-paralleled clinical experience and the opportunity to further develop your skills alongside a team of highly respected Advanced Practitioners/Specialist Paramedics and Consultants in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine.
Each team consists of a Critical Care Doctor, an Advanced Practitioner or Specialist Paramedic in Critical Care, and if using the helicopter, an experienced Pilot. At GWAAC, the emphasis is on working as a team, acknowledging that each profession has different skills, but that together we are stronger than the sum of our parts.
GWAAC is an accredited PHEM training unit and expects formal training to be completed on every shift. Crew members are expected to help with the running of the team and supporting the charitable aspects of the work – the need to raise over £6 million each year means that the team is often in demand for media interviews and visits from former patients. Responsibilities for various tasks and developments are usually shared between team members. This means that working with GWAAC is diverse, fun, challenging and very rewarding.
The GWAAC service covers over two million people in Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, North Somerset and parts of Wiltshire. It was formed in 2007 and since its inception has delivered the Gold Standard of Critical Care via car or helicopter. We now operate from a purpose-built airbase which is owned by the charity.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity before applying, please email Andy on andy.lockyer@gwaac.com with suggested availability for a telephone conversation and your telephone number.
Apply
To apply, please review the attached role description and person specification, and send a CV and covering letter explaining how you meet this specification to our Medical Director, Dr Andy Lockyer, at jobs@gwaac.com.
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Deadline for applications:
09:00 Wednesday 8 July
Interviews will take place on Monday 20 July.
