Would you like to be part of our Ambulance Trust who provide the very best care to the people in Local area? If so, come and join us and embark on an exciting career as
Role:
Trainee Associate Ambulance Practitioner
Location:
Paddock Wood
Hours:
(37.5 hours per week)
Course Details:
You will join us at our Partner college Crawley – in West Sussex for an initial 7 weeks training course and a more local to home 4 week blue light driving course where you will then be deployed into one of our 14 Dispatch Desks across the South East as a Trainee Associate Ambulance Practitioner.
You will work with qualified ambulance personnel for 4 weeks and then return for 1 week to college to consolidate your experience and undertake further training. This pattern will continue for a minimum of 18 months at which point, subject to you completing all of your academic and vocational work, you will sit a final assessment and become an Associate Ambulance Practitioner Band 5. You will be awarded a level 4 AAP certificate which is recognized nationally by all ambulance services.
Please Note: It is required to hold both English and Maths Qualification but Maths qualification is a mandatory requirement at the time of applying/Onboarding.
* You must have a genuine desire to serve the Local community. Demonstrate excellent communication skills, willingness to learn, utilise your initiative, common sense and remain calm under pressure, whilst providing a patient focused approach with a caring and empathetic nature.
* You will join us as a trainee and work on an emergency ambulance with a trained colleague attending urgent and emergency calls.
* You will be working a full range of shifts covering 365 days a year and 24 hours a day. For the first 18 months you will work a relief rota where you will know what days you are off but not what times you are working on each day.
Requirements:
* GCSE Maths and English, Grade A-C (4-9) or above (or equivalent). Or Level 2 English and Maths.
* A full and current driving licence, held for at least one year, with no more than 3 penalty points. Candidates MUST obtain a C1 FULL licence before commencing employment with the Trust - support is available with this on application.
* Demonstrate a stable employment and attendance history, Evidence of working with the general public for at least 2 years.
* If you have misplaced your certificates, please request copies from the relevant examination board and upload a statement detailing this to the application form as required. It is mandatory to have certificates.
It is important to articulate in your application form evidence and examples of your experience in dealing with the public and why you are best suited for this role.
* Option to join NHS pension scheme.
* A minimum of 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service. Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
* Access to occupational health and counselling services.
* Award winning wellbeing hub.
* Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
* Please note this advert is only open to individuals who do not have an existing SECAmb Emergency Care Support Worker (ECSW) qualification, as the ECSW competencies will be taught during the course.
* For all future recruits, the correct Agenda for Change pay and terms and conditions will apply. These specific arrangements, set out in Annex 21, pay apprentices and trainees a percentage of the pay for the roles they are training for, and this percentage increases as they progress through their training journey. Applying this to our TAAP programme from January 2025 will result in trainees receiving either 70 or 75 per cent of the Band 5 Associate Ambulance Practitioner as applicable to progress on the programme. This means our newly recruited TAAPs will receive pay that equates to being close to or within the Band 4 range, and within the most appropriate provisions of Agenda for Change.
Salary:
* Annex 21 (70%) Greater than 1 year of training remaining
* Annex 21 (75%) Less than 12 months of training remaining
* Band 5 Qualified: £25,538.10
* Band 5 Mid: £27,362.25
* Band 5 Top: £29,970
* £32,324
* £36,483
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Archana Shettigar
Job title: Recruitment Advisor
Email address: archana.shettigar@secamb.nhs.uk
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