Emergency Ambulance Crew - Specialist Service

Emergency Ambulance Crew - Specialist Service
We’re proud to partner with specialist transfer services across hospitals in London and the East of England to be the transport provider for CATs, PaNDR, NTS and ACCTS. We’re looking for passionate and dedicated Emergency Ambulance Crews to support this service. You’ll work alongside the clinical teams from the specialist services, to respond to, stabilise and transport critically unwell Neonates, children and adults between Intensive Care Units across London, East of England and surrounding areas.Do you want to be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century? As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as ‘everyday’ health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives. We're looking for passionate people, wanting to make a difference to join our Emergency Ambulance Crew’s providing specialist critical care transfer services for neonatal, paediatric, and adults across the East of England, London and beyond.We pride ourselves on being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work-life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. The role benefits from a competitive salary, generous pension, hybrid/flexible working, 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, free first aid and mental health first aid courses, Blue Light and NHS online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme, lifecare, mental health and wellbeing tools and volunteering days.Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)About the RoleYou will be working closely with specialist transport clinicians from the PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval Service), ACCTS (Adult Critical Care Transfer Service), CATS (Children’s Acute Transport Service) and NTS (Neonatal Transfer Service) teams. Using a fleet of modern bespoke C1 Ambulances you will be part of a team who deliver first class critical care transfer services to some of the most poorly patients, ensuring they receive the right care for their needs.Our small but effective team of Emergency Ambulance Crew’s (EAC) are co-located with the Trust’s clinical team where they plan and respond to thousands of requests to support unwell neonates, children and adults each year. Functioning as a truly embedded team, our EACs are part of a truly unique team bringing joy to families lives in caring for their loved ones.You can join this amazing team today! We’re looking for passionate and committed people to join this service and become part of the team.As an EAC, you will be responsible for ensuring your vehicle and clinical equipment are ready to respond to referrals, joining the clinical team for planning, co-ordination and review sessions. You’ll expertly handle transporting the clinical team to a referring hospital, be part of the team that helps to stabilise the patient and then safely deliver them to the receiving hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. You will be responsible for providing high quality, professional and compassionate care for patients and ensuring current clinical practice procedures and requirements are followed.About YouTo be considered for the role you must be educated to GCSE level and have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. You should have a minimum of 12 months driving experience and hold a full UK driving licence with a maximum of three penalty points. All applicantsmusthave a C1 on their licence. Those working towards this would be required to have it by an agreed start date. You will be required to complete 10 weeks residential training to become qualified Emergency Ambulance Crew, as well as undertaking Level 3 CERAD ambulance response driver training. Candidates will need to have an enhanced full DBS check (which we provide) and complete a health check to ensure they are able to take up frontline work. This is a shift-based role in a team that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Shifts are 12 hours in duration and on a shift rotation basis. This is not a 9 to 5 role and will include rostered weekend, night and bank holiday working for which enhanced pay premiums are added.About Us:This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,900 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes).Find out more about us, including our Ask Me campaign, atwww.sja.org.uk For candidates or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply, please apply below.St John Ambulance is committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive; we have several networks including the Armed Forces, Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do nottolerate any form ofdiscriminationandengendera sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship.We believe passionately in equity, diversity and inclusion.We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.Please note St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only consider CVs submitted for an advertised role.
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