Emergency Medical Technician

Job summary

We are recruiting for Emergency Medical Technician's who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This role is an exciting opportunity to assist the nursing staff in maintaining a safe environment and deliver a high standard of patient care. You would be providing direct patient care in minor injuries and minor illness with in the Urgent Treatment Centre. You will work alongside Emergency Nurse Practitioners, Triage Nurses and GPs. This role will provide you with plenty of opportunity to gain specific skills in plastering / suturing and wound care. This is a chance to work with a very established and experienced team with a wealth of knowledge to share with the right candidate!

You will be required to work on both the Lister and QEII sites and will be operating 12 hours shifts either starting 07:45 or 12:00 midday.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

You will be trained to achieve a high level of practical skills for use within the emergency department. On completion of the training program, it is anticipated that you will be responsible for the below day to day to duties.

Baseline observationsApplication of support/ splintageCardiac monitoringVenepunctureBasic Life Support of the adult (including automated external defibulation) and child.Transfer & escorting patients.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital and New Queen Elizabeth II Hospital

Stevenage/Welwyn Garden City

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital and New Queen Elizabeth II Hospital

Stevenage/Welwyn Garden City

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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