Job summary
HART Operative
Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) - Operatives
Applications are invited from existing Registered Band 6 Paramedic's to join the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust's Hazardous Area Response Team based at Clock Tower Road in Isleworth and Cody Road in Canning Town.
Please note, this recruitment process is to full time positions and a pool where staff will be recruited from once a vacancy becomes available.
All applicants must have significant post-qualification ambulance operational experience. You will need to be a Registered Paramedic with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and have successfully completed a HCPC approved paramedic programme. Fully completed the NQP process. You will need to have demonstrable evidence of practice within the last 12 months. You will also need a current manual driving licence, valid in the UK and covering category C1 vehicles. You must have no more than three penalty points and at least two years' driving experience. Beyond that, a dedicated approach to providing quality care to others could well see you into one of the most satisfying and highly respected roles in the community.
You should have evidence of an up to date appraisal having been completed and current at the time of application.
Main duties of the job
The Hazardous Area Response Team HART are staff trained to operate in the inner cordon at an incident.
HART Paramedics will receive training in high-risk operations including national courses and others to meet the HART Capabilities. HART Paramedics are expected to work in highly pressurized environments and staff will need to be mentally and physically resilient to undertake the role.
It may not be possible to progress applications from staff who suffer from vertigo, claustrophobia, skin allergies, or inhaler-dependent asthma. Those taken forward will be subject to an enhanced medical and fitness assessment, clinical and competency assessment, interview and DBS check. Competency assessments include working at height, confined space, physical fitness, face fit, and swimming.
Clinical and Physical assessments will be on Saturday 18th November at HART West Isleworth or Sat 25th November at HART East Canning Town, candidates only need attend one date. Interviews are expected W/C 11th of December location TBC.
Attendance is required at each assessment type pending successful completion of each assessment stage. Successful candidates will need to be free for at least a six-week residential course once a vacancy becomes available.
For further details please contact:
Colin Pinnington - 07879480564
About us
Our organisation is driven by our strategic objectives and organisational values and we look for people who are strongly aligned with them.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a registered practitioner be responsible for undertaking and documenting a comprehensive patient assessment, providing appropriate care and treatment, referring, discharging or conveying patients to the most suitable place of definitive care, this may include specialist centres e.g. heart attack centre, major trauma centre or hyper acute stroke unit.
Working to the current HCPC standards of proficiency for Paramedics, the paramedic will lead on the clinical and operational development of students and staff, providing high quality mentorship and education in practice.
Assist in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of unscheduled care involving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations, particularly within the primary care field.
HART staff work closely with other emergency service teams, providing paramedic care at a range of incidents including hazardous material incidents, either as result of accidental or deliberate release, structural collapse and Urban Search and Rescue incidents, confined space incidents, working at height, specialist firearms incidents and working on or in water.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a registered practitioner be responsible for undertaking and documenting a comprehensive patient assessment, providing appropriate care and treatment, referring, discharging or conveying patients to the most suitable place of definitive care, this may include specialist centres e.g. heart attack centre, major trauma centre or hyper acute stroke unit.
Working to the current HCPC standards of proficiency for Paramedics, the paramedic will lead on the clinical and operational development of students and staff, providing high quality mentorship and education in practice.
Assist in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of unscheduled care involving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations, particularly within the primary care field.
HART staff work closely with other emergency service teams, providing paramedic care at a range of incidents including hazardous material incidents, either as result of accidental or deliberate release, structural collapse and Urban Search and Rescue incidents, confined space incidents, working at height, specialist firearms incidents and working on or in water.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered paramedic
- Full manual driving license Valid in UK vehicle cat's C1 and B (not auto)
- Practice Educator (PEd with PEd modules 1 and 2 completed or commitment to work towards completion) or equivalent
- Minimum of two years' experience in emergency ambulance operations
Desirable
- FDg/ DipHE or BSc in Paramedic Science or relevant field of practice, or a clinically relevant extended practice qualification
- Certificate in Practice Education or equivalent teaching/mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Commitment to CPD activity
- Successful completion of a Newly Qualified Paramedic programme with relevant post registration experience in a clinical, patient-facing role.
Desirable
- Demonstrable and credible experience of working as team member and as a lone practitioner with the ability to work independently with confidence
- Experience of supervision, mentorship and development of a range of clinical staff in relevant practice settings
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Detailed understanding of appropriate care pathways, and ability to support mentees in their use.
- Understanding of a range of adult education approaches and strategies in practice settings
- Ability to assess and examine patients presenting with a broad range of conditions
- Critically reflect on practice in order to improve patient care, including the future mitigation of errors
- Ability to analyse, problem solve and make decisions
- Ability to work autonomously
Personal Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate sometimes highly complex, contentious, challenging and/or highly sensitive messages face to face
- Excellent report writing skills to ensure accurate and honest documentation in a timely manner.
- Ability to safely and sensitively manage the expectations of a variety of stakeholders
- Minimise clinical risk through reasoned and justifiable clinical decisions; including clinical risk assessment of triage decisions
Other Requirements
Essential
- Understanding of and demonstrable commitment to diversity as an employee of LAS and as a provider of services to the public
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered paramedic
- Full manual driving license Valid in UK vehicle cat's C1 and B (not auto)
- Practice Educator (PEd with PEd modules 1 and 2 completed or commitment to work towards completion) or equivalent
- Minimum of two years' experience in emergency ambulance operations
Desirable
- FDg/ DipHE or BSc in Paramedic Science or relevant field of practice, or a clinically relevant extended practice qualification
- Certificate in Practice Education or equivalent teaching/mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Commitment to CPD activity
- Successful completion of a Newly Qualified Paramedic programme with relevant post registration experience in a clinical, patient-facing role.
Desirable
- Demonstrable and credible experience of working as team member and as a lone practitioner with the ability to work independently with confidence
- Experience of supervision, mentorship and development of a range of clinical staff in relevant practice settings
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Detailed understanding of appropriate care pathways, and ability to support mentees in their use.
- Understanding of a range of adult education approaches and strategies in practice settings
- Ability to assess and examine patients presenting with a broad range of conditions
- Critically reflect on practice in order to improve patient care, including the future mitigation of errors
- Ability to analyse, problem solve and make decisions
- Ability to work autonomously
Personal Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate sometimes highly complex, contentious, challenging and/or highly sensitive messages face to face
- Excellent report writing skills to ensure accurate and honest documentation in a timely manner.
- Ability to safely and sensitively manage the expectations of a variety of stakeholders
- Minimise clinical risk through reasoned and justifiable clinical decisions; including clinical risk assessment of triage decisions
Other Requirements
Essential
- Understanding of and demonstrable commitment to diversity as an employee of LAS and as a provider of services to the public
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
