Employer South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trust Wide Town Trust Wide Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/03/2025 23:59
Band 5
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.
Job overview
Would you like to be part of Team SECAmb, providing the very best care to the people of the south-east of England? If so, come and join us and embark on an exciting career as a qualified Associate Ambulance Practitioner.
We have opportunities available Trust wide.
To succeed as an experienced Associate Ambulance Practitioner, you must have a genuine desire to serve the local community, demonstrate excellent communication skills, utilise your initiative, remain calm under pressure, whilst providing a patient-focused approach with a caring and empathetic nature.
Main duties of the job
In order to apply you must have:
* Associate Ambulance Practitioner (AAP) Level 4 Diploma
* A full and current driving licence, held for at least one year, with no more than three penalty points
* A stable employment and attendance history
* A caring disposition, demonstrating sensitivity to the needs of individuals
* Also, candidates MUST hold a full C1 (manual) category on their driving licence as well as a Blue Light Driving Qualification prior to joining the Trust
* Desirable - GCSE Maths and English, Grade A-C (4-9) or above (or equivalent)
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.
Please note the distance to your work location needs to be within a 45-minute commute.
Working for our organisation
* Option to join NHS pension scheme
* A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
* Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
* Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
* Access to occupational health and counselling services.
* Back up buddy App
* Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Ability to organise and initially manage the scene of incidents, until support arrives. This could involve organising or managing patients, bystanders or other responding services, plus communicating with outside agencies e.g. Police, Fire and Coastguard.
* Prepare the correct dosage for medicines administration.
* Demonstrate resilience and adaptability to meet the clinical needs of the patient in an emergency and urgent care setting.
* Able to pass an occupational specific fitness test and pre-employment medical.
* Able to work effectively under direction or as part of a team.
* Develop effective working relationships with colleagues and members of the public.
* Customer care experience e.g. care environment, nursing home or evidence of strong interpersonal/communication.
* Ensure information sharing is always undertaken, in compliance with information governance procedures.
* Record details and maintain records in accordance with the Trust’s service procedures, including the use of ePCR device and associated Apps, software etc.
A condition of employment is that until you have completed 52 weeks in the area of the trust you have applied for, you cannot apply to join the transfer list to move to another trust location during this period. This is to support the mentorship and skill mix and ensure vacancies are planned for.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Associate Ambulance Practitioner (AAP) Level 4 Diploma
* 3,500 qualifying hours
* Full C1 Licence
* GCSE Maths and English, Grade A-C (4) or above or Level 2 equivalent Qualification
Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self-declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending the interview. For any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.
The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.
We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.
The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable.
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