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Job overview

Are you a Qualified Paramedic who has been working for an NHS Trust or a private provider? Are you looking to work on a flexible basis where you can choose your shifts and balance work and personal commitments?

If the answer is 'yes', then this is your opportunity to work for a progressive, innovative and caring Trust.

A SCAS bank agreement offers a flexible way of working, whereby you can do as few as one shift in three months or as many as you want (ensuring compliance with the Working Time Directive). Bank working could be your main method of working or a secondary role. As one of our bank workers, you will be able to pick shifts from an online system which will automatically allocate you work without the need to call us, making the process quick and easy.

We are looking for applicants who are:

• highly motivated and passionate about high quality patient care
• professional
• C1 blue-light driver trained
• compassionate and able to remain calm under pressure
• emotionally and physically resilient and a good communicator

All we need you to have is:

• Current registration with the HCPC
• Qualified Paramedic status in the UK (must have completed the NQP portfolio at the point of application) evidence will be needed during the Recruitment process.
• Full valid UK manual driving licence including Category C1, with no more than 3 points
• Emergency Ambulance Driving Level 3 qualification (IHCD or FutureQuals)

Main duties of the job

Before you can start working as a Bank Paramedic in SCAS you are required to undertake a 16-module induction programme, 2 day driving familiarisation and 3 third manning shifts. You must complete these requirements within 3 months but with the combination of F2F and online modules.

You will be booked on to day one of corporate induction by the recruitment team, which you can attend remotely or in person. Once complete, we'll  book you on day 2 & 3 which includes the moving and handling assessment. This will need to be in person. If you cannot do both at the same time, you can attend the morning of day 2 remotely, but the afternoon and day 3 must be in person.

Following successful recruitment, you will be invited to meet with one of our education team who will provide you with an e-portfolio log in and access, to evidence forms that you will need to get signed off following your attendance of each of the modules. You will also be provided with available modules dates, for all three of our Education Centres.

All successful candidates who are offered a job with us will have to obtain clearance from the Disclosure and Baring Service and our Occupational Health provider as well as satisfactory references covering at least the last 3 years.

As part of your application you will be asked to advise us of your base station preferences. We will then do our best to match your preferences. We can’t guarantee placing you in your first preference but we will do our best.

Working for our organisation

Benefits we offer:

• Expert training and support from our dedicated in-house education team.
• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.

About Us

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.

The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex.

We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.