Qualified Paramedic | South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bicester, OX26 6HR |
| Company: | South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6198124/195-24-QP-HNS |
Summary
We are looking for Band 6 Qualified Paramedics to join our May 2024 course at our Education centre in Whiteley or June 2024 course at our Education Centre in Newbury.
Following the training period, you will be based specifically from the following stations:
North North- Stoke Mandeville, Milton Keynes
North East – High Wycombe, Wexham
North West- Didcot
North South – Reading, Bracknell
South North– Andover, Alton, BasingstokeWinchester and Eastleigh (Relief line until new Rota implementation), Whitchurch
South East– North Harbour
South West - Nursling, Lymington
If your confirmed station is at Wexham or Bracknell, you will also receive5% High Cost Allowance (Fringe).
We are looking for applicants that are:
• Passionate about high quality patient care.
• Professional in everything you do.
• Compassionate and able to remain calm under pressure.
• Wanting a varied and challenging job.
• Emotionally and physically resilient and a good communicator.
All you need is:
• To be an existing Band 6 Qualified Paramedic with current HCPC registration. If you registered as a Paramedic with HCPC after September 2016, you must have continued to practice operationally and be able to provide evidence that you have completed the 2 year NHS NQP Consolidation of Learning programme. This evidence will be requested during the recruitment process should your application be successful.
• Have a full valid UK manual driving licence (including Category B and Category C1 – over 3500kg with no more than 3 points. The Trust motor insurers would not entertain inclusion of any applicants who had had their driving licence removed following a Dangerous Driving or Drink or Drugs offence for a minimum period of 5 years from when their licence is reinstated. Each case would need to be passed to Trust brokers / insurers in order for the individual circumstances to be taken into account.
• Have a Trust approved emergency driving qualification, IHCD, D1, D2 qualification or Future Quals.
• Able to commit to a 5 day (full-time) and upto 3 day driving training course programme (paid) and on-going shift work.
Benefits we offer:
• Full training and support when you join and ongoing throughout your employment with us.
• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.
• Staff networking and support groups.
About Us
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.
The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex.
We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Please be advised that should you have to move home as a result of taking up employment within the Trust you may be eligible for assistance with relocation costs up to the sum of £8,000 (subject to conditions outlined within the Trust Relocation Policy). Further information is available upon request.
For more details of the role please look at the job description and person specification attached, as well as SCAS Values and other attachments on this advert.
In return we can offer…
• Five days of clinical updates training and SCAS familiarisation
• Two or three days of driver training delivered by our specialist driver training team
• Regular clinical updates
• Access to continuing professional development (CPD)
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme
The finer details:
• The 5-day clinical training programme is not residential so you will need to be able to get to our Education Centre in Newbury, Whiteley or Bicester on your own and at your own cost. Please note training is Monday - Friday during the day and you will need to commit to the full course.
• If your application demonstrates that you are what we are looking for, then you will be invited to an online interview which will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. A fitness assessment will also be required and will take place from one of our Education Centres in either Bicester, Newbury or Whiteley. Further details will be confirmed to you following shortlisting.
• All successful candidates who are offered a job with us will have to undertake employment checks as part of our recruitment process, including, an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Baring Service) check, which SCAS will fund, clearance from our Occupational Health department, references, ID and right to work verification.
• Our station availability is specific – please check the locations that are currently available on this advert before applying. You will be asked to complete a location preference form at conditional offer stage. We will take into account your preferences on where you wish to work, and best match this to our available vacancies at the time. We can’t guarantee placing you in your first preference but we will do very our best
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Apr 2024
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