HART Paramedic

Job summary

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is currently recruiting candidates for our HART teams based in Bristol and Exeter. SWASFT believe in having a diverse and inclusive workforce which represents the community and enables a more creative work force. We would like to encourage applications from individuals who identify as being from an underrepresented demographic.

All successful candidates will be provided with the training, the equipment, the support and the confidence to deliver exceptional patient care in adverse environments to improve patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

As part of the extensive training for operating within safe systems of work, HART Paramedics become proficient in the use of a wide range of specialist PPE and incident management equipment. A comprehensive on-going training programme will see you attend a week of training every six weeks, ensuring that every member of the Team maintains the highest standards and safe operating practices. Candidates will be expected to undertake residential training pertinent to HART requirements.

As a HART Paramedic you will respond to a variety of adverse and protracted incidents. You will deliver paramedic interventions through one of ten HART capability areas:

• Hazardous Materials (HazMat)
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and explosives (CBRNe) environment
• Marauding Terrorist Attack (MTA)
• Safe Working at Height (SWaH)
• Confined spaces
• Unstable terrain
• Water operations
• Support to Security Operations (SSO)
• High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID)
• All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV).

As well as these core operational capabilities HART Paramedics have enhanced clinical skills.

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 clickhere

Employer details

Employer name

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

East Devon Operations Centre and North Bristol Operations Centre

Exeter and Bristol

EX5 2FL

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

East Devon Operations Centre and North Bristol Operations Centre

Exeter and Bristol

EX5 2FL

Employer's website

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

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