Qualified Paramedic/Tech Job Share - Scunthorpe Blue

Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 1 x part-time Qualified Paramedic or band 5 Technician to join us on an job-share basis at Scunthorpe Ambulance Station in Lincolnshire . The successful candidate will work 12.75 hours a week.

Please note this line share is also open to NQPs who are currently on a line or eligible for a line.

You will respond to emergency and urgent patients using advanced driving skills and utilising visual (blue lights) and audible (sirens) warnings. To transport patients, relatives and carers to other care providers whilst driving at both normal road speed and/or emergency conditions.

You will act in accordance with EMAS clinical policies, procedures, protocols and patient group directives and adhere to and promote EMAS values whilst dealing with patients, carers, relatives, ambulance service colleagues and colleagues from other emergency services.

Main duties of the job
Paramedics respond to critical emergency and urgent situations, delivering high quality and effective pre-hospital clinical care and patient transportation, responding to 999 emergencies, inter-hospital transfers and urgent hospital admissions.

Working in a crew or solo, a paramedic will use advanced driving skills under blue light and normal traffic conditions to respond to and transport emergency and routine patients as required.

In an emergency, you will use high-tech equipment, such as defibrillators (which can restore the heart's rhythm), spinal and traction splints and intravenous drips, as well as administering oxygen and drugs. You will deal with a range of different people and situations, working shifts, in all weathers.

You will hold a current up to date HCPC registration.

You hold a full clean driving licence with a C1 category (applicants with a minor speeding offense may be considered, with no more than 3 points). You will need to provide evidence that you have completed a qualification allowing you to drive under blue light conditions in a C1 size vehicle (examples, IHCD D1/D2 or Futurequals Emergency Ambulance Driving).

About us
EMAS has five values which underpins everything we do; how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. Our values were updated in 2018 to reflect our commitment to encouraging innovation, team and partnership working, and looking outwards as well as inwards.

By living these values and supporting others to do the same, we will help to make sure that EMAS is an organisation we can all be proud of.

Respect: Respect for our patients and each other
Integrity: Acting with integrity by doing the right thing for the right reasons
Contribution: Respecting and valuing everyone's contribution, and encouraging innovation
Teamwork: Working together, supporting each other, and collaborating with other organisations
Compassion = towards our patients and staff

There are many qualities you will need to make a success of being a member of the EMAS team. Some you will learn as your career develops; others are personal skills:

• A willingness to work as a member of a team
• Good communication skills
• Good levels of fitness and manual-handling skills (for some roles)
• Excellent driving skills (for some roles)
• Initiative
• Decision-making skills
• A calm manner even in the most challenging situations
• A willingness to learn and further develop your skills

Job responsibilities
To provide safe and effective care to patients, relatives and significant others.

To provide clinical leadership to other grades of staff, to ensure the care you provide is of a high clinical standard and to ensure that you encourage others to set high clinical standards when treating patients.

To carry out daily vehicle checks in accordance with the Trusts Standard Operating Procedure, ensuring the vehicle is fully stocked with appropriate consumables, all equipment is in working order, and is safe and ready to use. Checking that all drugs (including controlled drugs) are stocked and stored as per trust policies and guidelines.

To ensure any trust vehicle that is to be used is roadworthy and available to respond to any category of call from the commencement of the shift.To respond to emergency and urgent patients using advanced driving skills and utilising visual (blue lights) and audible (sirens) warnings. To transport patients, relatives and carers to other care providers whilst driving at both normal road speed and/or emergency conditions.

To work as part of a crew or as a solo responder (meeting essential local training and experience criteria.), initiating high quality assessment, treatment (including drug therapies) and patient care ensuring patients, relatives and carers are consulted at all possible opportunities and feel that they are at the centre of all decisions made.

To act in accordance with EMAS clinical policies, procedures, protocols and patient group directives. To adhere to and promote EMAS values whilst dealing with patients, carers, relatives, ambulance service colleagues and colleagues from other emergency services.

Please refer to the attached documents for the Job Description and Person Specification.

Qualifications
Essential

• HCPC Registration
• Blue Light Qualification
• Paramedic/Technician Qualification

Experience
Essential

• Full C1
• No more than 3 points on Driving Licence

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).