Qualified Technician Job Share - ScunthorpeNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualifedTechnician to join us on a job-share basis at Scunthorpe Ambulance station The successful candidate will work 18.75 hours

About you

You must be already working as a Qualified 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 be required to make clinical decisions as a Technician and will be the lead clinician if crewed up with an Emergency Ambulance Associate, 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.

Job description

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 Technician, 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 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 the specific job roles (Technician)

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