Specialist HEMS Paramedic (Aftercare)
| Posting date: | 25 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742.00 to £50,056.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742.00 - £50056.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Redhill, RH1 5JZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9279-24-1005 |
Summary
The Specialist HEMS Paramedic is expected to deliver high quality patient focused care within their own scope of practice, and within the context of the enhanced care team underpinned by experience within the HEMS environment and a core set of competencies. They will be expected to have a sound knowledge and appropriate level of experience in the management of the critically ill or injured complex patient, in the pre-hospital setting. The role involves providing specialist advice within the team in matters relating to scene safety, scene management, inter-agency working, extrication techniques, patient triage and transportation. A sound knowledge of the acute health care networks across the South East is therefore vital. The Specialist HEMS Paramedic will be expected to remotely support the tasking function and assist in the identification of appropriate calls and the safe, but timely deployment of the aircraft or response car when dispatched. The post holder will be required to lead the operational service delivery on a real time basis both in the dispatch function and the transport and triage decision making. As a high profile member of the clinical team, the Specialist HEMS Paramedic will be expected to support and promote the fundraising efforts of the charity and will be required to assist in the delivery of, or attendance at, presentations and other fundraising functions. This roll will be combined with specific responsibilities as Aftercare Lead. This is a key member of our newly formed Patient and Family Aftercare Team, with responsibility for the development and embedding of this service within our communities. Their role, working with the Patient and Family Aftercare Manager, will focus on establishing this crucial service through engagement and negotiation with our NHS colleagues, engaging with patients and their families to ensure the service meet their needs and aligns them with available support and support patient visits to KSS and the demonstration of impact of the service. Delivering on our purpose and striving towards our vision as a charity relies upon us understanding how the interventions we undertake have influenced patient outcome. This is best achieved through the establishment of more extensive patient relationships and acute sector collaboration, allowing us to obtain granular quantitative and qualitative data which will be vital in informing the targeted development of prevention and education strategies as well as of core service provision. An additional aim of the role in the medium term will be to provide liaison and engagement activity to support our Prevention and Education Key Strategic Initiative. The role will require flexible working at both our Redhill and Rochester bases and may require attendance at our Major Trauma Centres and other key stakeholder sites. The individual may also be required to potentially meet patients and their families in a residential setting or community setting. The individual will play a key role in representing KSS in our communities, raising awareness of our cause, displaying our behaviours, and living by our values.