Newly Qualified (B5) or Qualified (B6) Paramedic - Somerset

Job summary

Are you a Newly Qualified or Qualified Paramedic looking for your next opportunity? Join us and you'll find an Ambulance Service that understands the better we look after you, the better equipped you'll be to look after our patients. We are a progressive, clinically advanced service which takes account of feedback, organisational learning and provides staff with the equipment and support necessary to help them fulfil their demanding roles.

Join us in a role in Somerset and you'll receive a £3,000 welcome payment on joining. Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills, the Blackdown Hills, Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels. Somerset has a lot to offer including the larger towns of Taunton and Glastonbury, beaches, green spaces, woodlands, lakes & more. Easily accessible via the M5 motorway with close links to Bristol and Exeter, Somerset has so much to offer.

Our commitment to supporting our staff is by our dedicated clinical career framework and our award winning Staying Well Service. We are running assessments for shortlisted candidates in January and February.

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Main duties of the job

Our diverse geography which includes some very remote rural communities has driven our ambition to equip all our staff with the training, support and skills they need to deliver a higher level of care, enabling more of our patients to be treated closer to home and resulting in the lowest conveyance rate across the Ambulance Sector.

Geographically we are the largest ambulance service in the country, covering one fifth of the country including some of its most beautiful and life enriching locations. Whether you crave a coastal location, the best of the British countryside or the historic cities of Bath, Exeter, Bristol and Cheltenham to name but a few, our location provides the best of everything.

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About us

At South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) we have a culture where everyone is valued for being themselves. Our aim is to work together to promote the most inclusive environment possible, which attracts people from the widest range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work that we do together, for the benefit of all of our employees, our patients and the communities we serve. We offer flexible working opportunities, inclusive policies and a range of feedback mechanisms to support individuals and to enable a positive, welcoming environment where our people and their careers can thrive in.

We employ over 5,000 employees mainly clinical, operational and emergency response staff as well as supporting roles. We also employ Doctors and volunteers which include community first responders and fire co-responders.

We take all the steps needed to provide the most compassionate patient care possible whilst also providing an enjoyable and safe place to work. We actively promote a positive set of behaviours as being key to our performance both individually and collectively. Our recruitment, selection and screening processes are designed to uphold these standards and we invite all our candidates to actively share with us through these processes how they will bring these behaviours to life.

To view the Trust's Mission, Vision, Values and Goals click here

Employer details

Employer name

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Somerset

Somerset

TA6 4FJ

Employer's website

https://www.swast.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Somerset

Somerset

TA6 4FJ

Employer's website

https://www.swast.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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