Job summary
Ready to start your Paramedic career at the London Ambulance Service?
We are welcoming applications from newly qualified paramedics, experienced paramedics or university students who are due to graduate by February 2024.
If you're serious about us, then we are serious about you. Apply today for the opportunity to be a part of the LAS family.
We offer the following benefits:
- Comprehensive relocation package, assisting with the costs of flights, visas, first months accommodation and other eligible essential expenses
- Full conversion to London/UK paramedic requirements - comprehensive training course & mentoring with experienced paramedics
- Protected training and continued professional development along with a clinical career path which is well established and expanding
- Funding for C1 driving
- Full emergency response ambulance driving course, allowing you to drive on blue lights
- 27 days annual leave rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- NHS Pension scheme, cycle to work, car lease scheme and season ticket loan
- NHS and blue light discounts
- Access to comprehensive welfare support - including counselling and physiotherapy
- Dedicated international support team
- International buddy schem
Main duties of the job
If you'd like to be part of building a world-class ambulance service for a world-class city, the key skills and experience required are:
- Hold either a Diploma or Degree qualification from an approved education provider
- To be eligible to register as a paramedic with the Health Care Professions Council (or already be registered) and have successfully completed a HCPC approved paramedic programme
- Have demonstrable evidence of clinical practice within at least the last 24 months
- Possess a current full driving licence. On arrival in the UK you will need to be able to convert your licence to a UK licence and obtain C1 entitlement to allow you to drive larger vehicles
- Have no more than three demerit points or equivalent in your home country
Our training centres are based in Outer London, your starting salary will be £32,720 inclusive of high cost allowance supplement (HCAS). You will remain on this salary if posted Outer London. If posted Inner London, your salary will increase to £34,089.
After successful completion of the NQP programme (2 years), your salary will increase to £40,701 (Outer London) / £42,471 (Inner London) inclusive of HCAS.
Unsociable hours and overtime allowance is in addition to this.
About us
With a diverse population of 9.5 million people living in 620 square miles and around 6,000 calls a day, there's no such thing as a routine job, let alone a 'normal' day for employees of the London Ambulance Service.
With the world's busiest airport on our doorstep, our enormous underground network, busy tourist hot spots, and the major public and cultural events we deal with and you'll quickly see why we place so much emphasis on finding the right people to carry out the vital work that we do. Working in London will give you a level of experience which is second to none with the opportunity to really develop your practice as a paramedic.
We strive to provide our patients with the level of care that distinguishes us as a great service provider. We are working towards being London's primary integrator of access to urgent and emergency care 'on scene', 'on phone' and 'on line',taking fewer patients to hospital by using more alternative care pathways, treating more patients in their home and giving more advice to callers over the phone.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Carry out paramedic duties as part of an operational crew, working within scope of practice and adhering to protocols, procedures, SOPs and clinical guidelines, seeking appropriate clinical advice and/or support* as required.
- Reduce inappropriate demand for emergency services by referring patients to appropriate health and social care agencies in response to emergency/urgent calls not requiring hospital attendance, seeking appropriate clinical advice and /or support as required.
- Ensures a continuous duty of care to patients to the required HCPC Standards of Proficiency and within the scope of practice and competency of this role, ensuring an appropriate level ofmonitoring and treatment is maintained until the patient is either discharged, referred or transferred on the advice of an experienced paramedic or handed over to the the care of another healthcare professional and agency.
- Follow and adhere to Trust clinical policies, protocols, procedures and SOPs Treat and Release, or refer patients who access the health service through the 999 system, but who do not need hospital admission seeking appropriate clinical advice and/or support as required.
- Following Trust clinical policies, protocols, procedures and SOPs administer drugs in accordance with national and local guidelines and relevant Patient Group Directives issued by the Trust and seeking appropriate clinical advice and/or support as required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Carry out paramedic duties as part of an operational crew, working within scope of practice and adhering to protocols, procedures, SOPs and clinical guidelines, seeking appropriate clinical advice and/or support* as required.
- Reduce inappropriate demand for emergency services by referring patients to appropriate health and social care agencies in response to emergency/urgent calls not requiring hospital attendance, seeking appropriate clinical advice and /or support as required.
- Ensures a continuous duty of care to patients to the required HCPC Standards of Proficiency and within the scope of practice and competency of this role, ensuring an appropriate level ofmonitoring and treatment is maintained until the patient is either discharged, referred or transferred on the advice of an experienced paramedic or handed over to the the care of another healthcare professional and agency.
- Follow and adhere to Trust clinical policies, protocols, procedures and SOPs Treat and Release, or refer patients who access the health service through the 999 system, but who do not need hospital admission seeking appropriate clinical advice and/or support as required.
- Following Trust clinical policies, protocols, procedures and SOPs administer drugs in accordance with national and local guidelines and relevant Patient Group Directives issued by the Trust and seeking appropriate clinical advice and/or support as required.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Paramedicine graduate or working towards a paramedic degree
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Paramedicine graduate or working towards a paramedic degree
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.
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).
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.
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).
