Trainee Pre-Hospital Practitioner (Southend only) | East of England Ambulance Service Trust
Location: Southend
Training courses will commence from April 2025
Our vision - Outstanding care, exceptional people, every hour of every day. #WeAreEEAST #WeAreTheNHS
Do you have experience in an acute setting such as ED / Primary & Urgent care / critical care?
Do you have high levels of autonomy and experience in managing a complex range of patient presentations? Then this role is for you.
Annex 21 Training
For those who are highly experienced, you will complete a transition to practice course (seven weeks) followed by an ePortfolio of capability which can include evidence from across your clinical experience as well as your first six months in pre-hospital care, followed by an end point assessment to ratify competence.For those who are early career or have less experience in healthcare, then we will support you to develop over a longer period of time (as described above), including completing ambulance aid skills training and further consolidation of pre-hospital competencies.
During this time, you will be deployed with a reduced scope of practice, a reduced discharge permissions level and a reduced set of patient group directives for medication use whilst you gain experience and confidence.
You will still have a level of clinical autonomy and may be crewed with a non-registered healthcare professional. As you grow your experience and complete a competency portfolio, you will then progress through education gateways to become a fully qualified pre-hospital practitioner.You will complete your e-portfolio and be able to exit to your end point assessment, at 12, 18 or 24 months dependent on your readiness.
EEAST employs over 5,000 staff with a further 1,000+ volunteers who between them cover 7,500 square miles and care for a population of more than 6 million.
Our three control rooms in Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Essex handle more than 1 million 999 calls every year, over 2,500 calls a day.
We manage a fleet of over 1,000 vehicles including double staffed ambulances, rapid response cars, operational commander response vehicles, patient transport and support service vehicles.
The East of England works alongside 17 Acute Trusts with Accident & Emergency services and a Major Trauma Centre in Cambridge. Access is available to neighbouring MTCs such as those in London.
Our core values:
Care - We value warmth, empathy and compassion in all our relationships
Teamwork - Together as one, we work with pride and commitment to achieve our vision
Quality - We strive to consistently achieve high standards through continuous improvement
Respect - We value individuals, including our patients, our staff and our partners in every interaction
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Jan 2025