A career as an Advanced Paramedic (paramedic or nurse) with EEAST offers many benefits, including:
+ Working on a dedicated rapid intervention scheme mainly serving care homes
+ Working with multidisciplinary teams
+ A comprehensive training and development plan, including annual appraisal
+ Clinical leadership opportunities
+ Pre-hospital prescribing, where possible, when working on the scheme, To enable EEAST to meet the future needs of our patients, we are investing significantly in our urgent & emergency care services, developing a post registration career pathway for advanced practice.
This will create exciting opportunities for current Advanced Paramedics and career development for our clinical workforce.
Through this programme we are now seeking a number of individuals with the drive, leadership skills and clinical excellence to take on the new, exciting and challenging role of Advanced Paramedic in Urgent for a rapid intervention scheme in West Herts.
In addition, Advanced Paramedics (paramedic or nurse) will provide clinical supervision and mentorship to our team of clinicians and contribute to the wider operational clinical team, through professional activities related to the four pillars of advanced practice, as well as providing excellent clinical care, on a number of new operational resources., The Advanced Paramedic - works across various clinical settings utilising a range of tools and models of practice. A highly proficient and autonomous Paramedic, the AP will provide care and treatment to patients presenting with undifferentiated urgent/critical and unscheduled care problems. They will manage patients in, or closer to home, that present with chronic and long-term conditions, as well as minor illness and minor injury. This AP will:
+ Improve the patient's journey and experience by reducing the time to diagnosis/treatment and fast-tracking the patient through appropriate emergency care pathways.
+ Enhance the focus on appropriate admissions and referrals through access to appropriate care at point of need.
+ Provide an innovative service, underpinned by specialist knowledge and skills from a wide range of healthcare disciplines, offering the first point of contact at the appropriate place and time.
Clinicians at this level will exhibit an advanced breadth and depth of knowledge combined with critical thinking and expertise in patient assessment, point of care patient diagnostics and clinical interventions which will be supported by an extended scope of practice beyond that required for paramedic registration. In addition, the AP will be expected to develop knowledge and skills in identified areas of specialist practice and contribute to pan-service education, training, and research and audit activity.
References and Employment History: All references from current and previous employers, will be sought via their Human Resources Department and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and email address of the Human Resources Department and indicate your current/previous line manager and their departmental details.
All appointments will be subject to currently having a clean disciplinary record.
Please be advised that a No Smoking Policy is in operation throughout the Trust.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme - Under the Trust's commitment 'Positive about Disabled People', if you consider yourself as having a disability and you meet the minimum selection criteria for any post, you will get an automatic interview. By minimum selection criteria we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates the essential requirements as set out in the person specification and advertisement for a post.
EEAST employs over 5,000 staff with a further 1,000+ volunteers who between them cover 7,500 square miles and care for a population of more than 6 million.
Our three control rooms in Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Essex handle more than 1 million 999 calls every year, over 2,500 calls a day.
We manage a fleet of over 1,000 vehicles including double staffed ambulances, rapid response cars, operational commander response vehicles, patient transport and support service vehicles.
The East of England works alongside 17 Acute Trusts with Accident & Emergency services and a Major Trauma Centre in Cambridge. Access is available to neighbouring MTCs such as those in London.
Our core values:
Care - We value warmth, empathy and compassion in all our relationships
Teamwork - Together as one, we work with pride and commitment to achieve our vision
Quality - We strive to consistently achieve high standards through continuous improvement
Respect - We value individuals, including our patients, our staff and our partners in every interaction
Honesty - We value a culture that has trust, integrity and transparency at the centre of everything we do.
Our 4 goals are:
Be an exceptional place to work, volunteer and learn
Provide outstanding quality of care and performance
Be excellent collaborators and innovators as system partners
Be an environmentally and financially sustainable organisation