About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Qualified Emergency Care Assistant, Ambulance Support Crew or Technician to join us on a job-share basis at Spalding Ambulance station The successful candidate will work 18.75 hours on the Blue line.
About you
You must be already working as a Qualified Emergency Care Assistant, Ambulance Support Crew or Technician to apply for this position. You will serve your community responding to 999 calls as part of an emergency ambulance crew. You will deal with a range of different people and situations and use clinical guidelines to manage and direct patients to the most appropriate care pathway.
Main duties of the job
This role requires motivation, commitment and personal resilience as well as an ability to reflect and seek feedback on clinical practice.
You must have excellent communication skills, be friendly and work well within a team. It is important to be reliable and punctual in your work due to the nature of an emergency service and the need to respond promptly to incidents/calls. A commitment to continual professional development is also essential due to the evolving nature of emergency and urgent care.
You must also embrace and promote equality, diversity and inclusivity in your role and at every opportunity. You will work as an Emergency Care Assistant, Ambulance Support Crew or Technician, depending on your current grade. You will be required to make clinical decisions as a Technician and will be the lead clinician if crewed up with an Emergency Care Assistant, which will enable you to provide patients with potentially life-saving care at the scene as well as linking patients with alternative care pathways within the community.
About us
EMAS has five values which underpins everything we do; how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. Our values were updated in 2018 to reflect our commitment to encouraging innovation, team and partnership working, and looking outwards as well as inwards.
By living these values and supporting others to do the same, we will help to make sure that EMAS is an organisation we can all be proud of.
Respect: Respect for our patients and each other Integrity: Acting with integrity by doing the right thing for the right reasons Contribution: Respecting and valuing everyone's contribution, and encouraging innovation Teamwork: Working together, supporting each other, and collaborating with other organisations Competence: Continually developing and improving competence
There are many qualities you will need to make a success of being a member of the EMAS team. Some you will learn as your career develops; others are personal skills:
A willingness to work as a member of a team Good communication skills Manual-handling skills (for some roles) Excellent driving skills (for some roles) Initiative Decision-making skills A calm manner even in the most challenging situations A willingness to learn and further develop your skills
Job description Job responsibilities
As a Technician, you will provide appropriate care, treatment and transportation of all categories of patients (including emergency and non-emergency cases) using the highest quality of skills and promoting the safety and well-being of patients at all times. To provide this care in accordance with the Institute of Health and Care Development (IHCD) standards and within the scope of the Trusts protocols and procedures.
As an Emergency Care Assistant or Ambulance Support Crew, attend cases of accident and sudden illness and respond to urgent, special and planned patient transfer requests. To use advanced driving skills under blue light and normal traffic conditions to respond to emergency and routine calls as required. To assist a qualifiedpractitioner in the delivery of high quality and effective clinical and personal care and the transportation of patients, selecting and applying appropriate equipment and skills in line with the scope of practice and associated training.
Please refer to the attached documents for the job description and person specification for each of the specific job roles (Technician, Emergency Care Assistant and Ambulance Support Crew).
Person Specification
Qualifications and Skills Essential
Must be Qualified ECA/Technician/ASC Full clean driving licence including Category A - old style licence - or Categories B & C1 - new style licence. Applicants with a minor speeding offence may be considered. Emergency Ambulance Driving Qualification
Personal Attributes Essential
Displays an ability to sympathise and empathise with other people, a caring disposition. Displays a commitment to undertake training as required/personal development
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship 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).
Employer details Employer name East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Address Spalding Ambulance Station
Spalding Road
Spalding
PE113DE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.emas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)