Main area HART Grade NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Unsocial Hours allowance will reflect your current position (i.e. if currently on Annex 5 you will not change))
Job ref: 335-A-1774
Employer: East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Operational Support Unit
Town: Mansfield
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 PA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/05/2025 23:59
HART Operative (and Candidate Pool)
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for people to join the Hazardous Area Response Team Operatives (and Candidate Pool) at Mansfield.
Looking for a new and exciting challenge? EMAS NHS Trust are seeking enthusiastic and motivated staff to join their Hazard Area Response Team (HART) appointable candidate pool, which is a continuing national initiative led by the NHS England, enabling clinical care to be delivered in areas previously inaccessible to the Ambulance Service. This pool will be used to fill vacancies across the following 12 months when opportunities arise.
The Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) is the generic term applied to staff recruited and trained specifically to operate within the inner cordon at an incident (“hot zone”) or in hazardous environments.
Main duties of the job
Successful applicants will receive the relevant training, pertinent to the full range of HART capabilities, through attendance of local or national courses.
HART Operatives are expected to work in highly pressurised environments. Appropriate training, equipment, and Personal Protective Equipment will be provided to mitigate against any risks, but individuals will need to be mentally and physically resilient to undertake the role.
You will need to be a Registered Paramedic with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and have successfully completed a HCPC approved paramedic process.
If you have completed the NQP Pathway, this should be over a 2-year period obtaining experience in clinical practice, or less if progressed through the national fast track programme.
It will be necessary to demonstrate competence in team working, self-discipline, communication skills, adaptability, planning skills, and decision making.
Due to the nature of the work and the constraints of the personal protective equipment, including gas-tight suits and extended duration breathing apparatus, a more stringent medical standard must be met.
All aspects of the recruitment and selection process must be successfully completed. Applications will be shortlisted against the requirements of the role. Those taken forward will be subject to an optical assessment, occupational health medical, physical fitness assessment, clinical assessment, competency-based interview, and DBS check.
Working for our organisation
The EMAS Hazardous Area Response Team consists of 48 Paramedics trained and equipped to respond to patients within the "Hot Zone".
The Unit is split into 6 teams of 7 HART Operatives with a HART Team Leader responsible for each team. This ensures we are able to maintain cover 24 hours a day.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide immediate health input to the initial assessment of the scene to meet the needs of Ambulance and Health Services, including casualty confirmation and management.
To provide specialist clinical support and knowledge within HAZMAT/CBRN, unstable terrain, at height or in/near water.
Actively support and work with other members of the Team undertaking those tasks allocated by the HART Team Leader, or Incident Commander.
Be prepared to respond to national incidents, with the possibility of being away for unknown periods of time.
Direct, coordinate and deliver lifesaving clinical care for patients within the inner cordon including triage (where appropriate, toxic triage), diagnosis, appropriate treatment, prior to, and during, decontamination (if contamination present) and in situations of difficult access, unstable terrain or confined spaces, at times being the only clinician in situ and delivering casualties into mainstream healthcare.
Person specification
HCPC
* HCPC registered Paramedic
Driving Licence
* UK Driving License which must include category C1. No more than 3 points
Experience
* Minimum of 2 years post registration operational experience and completion of NQP period
* ALS, PHTLS, PHEC or other advanced clinical courses.
Knowledge
* Maintain and demonstrate continuous professional development in line with the paramedic role.
Note on Covid-19 Vaccination status:
It is a clear professional responsibility of all health care staff to be vaccinated. EMAS NHS Trust therefore encourages and supports all employees to be vaccinated as it remains the best line of defence against COVID 19.
If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.
Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.
Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at the point of application.
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities.
We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other.
Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.
Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS.
If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first month’s salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.
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