Job summary
Employer heading
Airport Paramedic Dual Role
Band 6
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
SECAmb have been given a exciting opportunity to work in partnership at Gatwick Airport on the new SOLO contract. This will be on a dual role basis and include working on a SRV whilst at Gatwick Airport and undertaking double crewed ambulance shifts out of Gatwick make ready.
Due to this being an external contract, your actual contract and place of work will be Gatwick make ready centre with shifts allocated as part of a rota pattern which incorporates shifts at Gatwick airport.
Main duties of the job
Our vision is to become a world-class provider of emergency and urgent healthcare services in the pre-hospital and out of hospital environments. To help us achieve this aim we are recruiting for Experienced Paramedics.
We are looking for empathetic and committed individuals who are eligible to register with the HCPC and hold a BTECH Level 4, DipHE, FdSc or BSc award in Paramedic Science or Practice. Applicants must have an excellent knowledge of pre-hospital care, be methodical and systematic and demonstrate compassionate care in their daily interaction with patients.
Experienced Paramedics should hold the Level 3 Certificate in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving and C1 Licence.
Applicants must also have the ability to deal with stressful and sensitive situations whilst being highly motivated and enthusiastic.
We want to support you through that transition and watch you grow through a tailored programme of personal and professional development within our Trust.
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.
- Award winning wellbeing hub
- Back up buddy App
- Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a two year secondment and you will need to be in commuting distance of the airport.
You will need to undertake additional security and occupational screening in line with the airports requirements.
Please note the assessment date has been provisionally booked for 17th may however this may change
Person specification
Application form
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered Paramedic
- Must have held full manual driving licence for minimum of 1 year, with no more than 3 points at the time of application
- Trust approved emergency driving qualification
- Must have licence category C1. (if appropriate to the role). Valid in the UK
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lauren Hills
- Job title
- Recruitment Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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