Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for qualified HART Paramedics or experienced Paramedics to join the NEAS HART team. Start dates for training will be dependant on national course availability, this may be a substantial delay.
Non HART qualified staff will have completed an NQP programme (if appropriate) & have demonstrable experience of post qualification autonomous practice in pre-hospital environment.
The Role of the HART Team
Attend
& respond to Major Incidents, incidents of a CBRN nature,
structural collapse, confined space rescue, major transportation incidents,
incidents working at height, trench collapse & rescue, incidents
involving complex entrapment & protracted incidents.
Provide specialist clinical support & knowledge in challenging
environments.
Provide
immediate health input to the initial assessment of the scene to meet the needs
of Ambulance & other Emergency Services.
Able to demonstrate competence in team working, self discipline,
communication skills, adaptability, planning skills & decision making. You will have a good level of fitness, comfortable working at height, in confined spaces & be capable of swimming
100 metres.
Successful applicants will complete a competency-based
interview & potentially require a separate physical competency assessment as
part of the recruitment process.
For more information on this post please contact: alun.ross@neas.nhs.uk or philip.blance@neas.nhs.uk & visit
https://naru.org.uk/what-we-do/hart/.
Main duties of the job
The HART Paramedic will be required to work within a number of hazardous environments
to provide NHS standard Paramedic care to patients who are otherwise beyond the
reach of NHS care.
Must be competent to work within the skill sets
of the following core capabilities;
Hazardous Materials
(HAZMAT)
High Consequence
Infectious Diseases (HCID)
CBRN(e)
Marauding Terrorist
Attack (MTA)
Safe Working at Height
(SWaH)
Confined Space
Unstable Terrain
Water Operations
Support to Security
Operations (SSO)
To
work closely with other Emergency Service personnel at incidents working to the
Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP) principles.
May
be deployed to protracted incidents and where necessary on mutual aid to other
Trusts where they could be away from home for a number of nights.
Work
to the National Safe System of Work (SSoW). This includes Standard Operating
Procedures (SOPs), Generic Rescue Plans (GRP), Generic Operational Risk
Assessments (GORAs), Training Information Sheets (TISs), Generic Training Risk
Assessments (GTRAs), Equipment Data Sheets (EDSs) and Generic Equipment Risk
Assessments (GERAs).
Will
be required to work autonomously but mostly as part of a team under the
direction of the appointed HART Team Leader and/or the Operational Commander.
About us
We
employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square
miles.
Many
people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take
them to hospital, but we do much more!
Paramedic
skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more
treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.
We
have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients
with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.
We
have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions
or terrorist attacks.
Ultimately
patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of
"safe, effective and responsive care for all".
We
value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a
workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from
people from all backgrounds. To
ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold
employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dyslexia Smart Award employer,
Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work
Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across
all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities for this role
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities for this role
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills and Personal Attributes
Essential
- Proven clinical skills and a commitment to delivering high standards of patient care.
- Ability to make sound clinical decisions often at short notice.
- Ability to maintain high standards of clinical care and health and safety, even in stressful and challenging situations.
- Ability to work in all high-risk environments, as defined by the national standards (HART)
- Demonstrate effective written, verbal and listening communication skills.
- Understanding of and demonstrable commitment to Equal Opportunities and Diversity, both as a colleague and as a provider of a service to the public.
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking risk assessments and engaging with a risk management process
- A good level of IT literacy skills with the ability to use web based platforms.
Experience
Essential
- 2 years experience post HCPC paramedic registration and completed the Newly Qualified Paramedic Process (if applicable)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Evidence of working in a multi-agency environment
Desirable
- Experience of Incident Management.
- Currently qualified as MTA response team member.
- Currently qualified as Special Operations Response Team member.
- Experience of working at height and in confined spaces.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work effectively at height and other areas of difficult access.
- Ability to work effectively in enclosed, confined spaces.
- Capable of swimming 100 metres.
- Ability to don specialist PPE for protracted periods of time.
- Able to pass a physical competence assessment prior to selection and maintain physical competence in line with national standards.
Special Requirements
Essential
- To be part of 24/7 response unit working unsocial hours.
- Low level of absence due to sickness in the last two years.
- No outstanding disciplinary sanctions.
- Have a satisfactory DBS enhanced disclosure check.
- Occupational Health clearance.
- Must fit the physical eligibility criteria to ensure safe use of PPE, shoe size within 3-13
- Able to attend and pass pre-employment training on the required dates and achieve the standards required for the role.
- Hold a valid UK driving licence with category C1.
- Whilst on duty be clean shaven and facially shave every 24 hours
- Flexibility required surrounding shifts and time away from home, including the requirement to attend residential training courses to achieve required standards.
Core Behavioural Competencies
Essential
- Ability to handle sensitive, stressful and traumatic incidents effectively, knowing when to use tact, diplomacy and assertiveness.
- Ability to remain calm and resilient under pressure and support others in this respect.
- Ability to work as part of a team and be supportive of others.
- Be self-disciplined and conscientious.
- Open to change, flexible and adaptable.
- Ability to establish efficiently an appropriate course of action to accomplish a goal.
- Being self-confident and have the ability to develop self, motivate others and instil a sense of capability in others.
- Maintain a professional image at all times
- Ability to communicate sometimes highly complex, contentious, challenging and/or highly sensitive messages face to face.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills and Personal Attributes
Essential
- Proven clinical skills and a commitment to delivering high standards of patient care.
- Ability to make sound clinical decisions often at short notice.
- Ability to maintain high standards of clinical care and health and safety, even in stressful and challenging situations.
- Ability to work in all high-risk environments, as defined by the national standards (HART)
- Demonstrate effective written, verbal and listening communication skills.
- Understanding of and demonstrable commitment to Equal Opportunities and Diversity, both as a colleague and as a provider of a service to the public.
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking risk assessments and engaging with a risk management process
- A good level of IT literacy skills with the ability to use web based platforms.
Experience
Essential
- 2 years experience post HCPC paramedic registration and completed the Newly Qualified Paramedic Process (if applicable)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Evidence of working in a multi-agency environment
Desirable
- Experience of Incident Management.
- Currently qualified as MTA response team member.
- Currently qualified as Special Operations Response Team member.
- Experience of working at height and in confined spaces.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work effectively at height and other areas of difficult access.
- Ability to work effectively in enclosed, confined spaces.
- Capable of swimming 100 metres.
- Ability to don specialist PPE for protracted periods of time.
- Able to pass a physical competence assessment prior to selection and maintain physical competence in line with national standards.
Special Requirements
Essential
- To be part of 24/7 response unit working unsocial hours.
- Low level of absence due to sickness in the last two years.
- No outstanding disciplinary sanctions.
- Have a satisfactory DBS enhanced disclosure check.
- Occupational Health clearance.
- Must fit the physical eligibility criteria to ensure safe use of PPE, shoe size within 3-13
- Able to attend and pass pre-employment training on the required dates and achieve the standards required for the role.
- Hold a valid UK driving licence with category C1.
- Whilst on duty be clean shaven and facially shave every 24 hours
- Flexibility required surrounding shifts and time away from home, including the requirement to attend residential training courses to achieve required standards.
Core Behavioural Competencies
Essential
- Ability to handle sensitive, stressful and traumatic incidents effectively, knowing when to use tact, diplomacy and assertiveness.
- Ability to remain calm and resilient under pressure and support others in this respect.
- Ability to work as part of a team and be supportive of others.
- Be self-disciplined and conscientious.
- Open to change, flexible and adaptable.
- Ability to establish efficiently an appropriate course of action to accomplish a goal.
- Being self-confident and have the ability to develop self, motivate others and instil a sense of capability in others.
- Maintain a professional image at all times
- Ability to communicate sometimes highly complex, contentious, challenging and/or highly sensitive messages face to face.
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).
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
