Newly Qualified Paramedic, UK | Work Visa Sponsorship

South East Coast Ambulance Service is combining their top-ranked Newly Qualified Paramedic program with their custom International Recruitment package to recruit freshly qualified paramedics into the NHS. 

Duties

• Perform paramedic duties within an operational team following protocols, the scope of practice, Standard Operating Procedures, and clinical guidelines
• Deliver flexible ambulance service responses and, if necessary, cross professional boundaries to strengthen unscheduled care delivery.
• Seek support and clinical advice from appropriate quarters if/when required.
• Follow the required HCPC Standards of Proficiency and stay within practice scope and role competencies to continuously deliver patient care.
• Assist with all patient care until an experienced paramedic recommends discharge, referral, or transfer to another healthcare professional or agency.

Qualifications

• Degree in Paramedic Science or its equivalent. Other advanced clinical courses, like ALS, PHEC, and PHTLS, are also desirable.
• Fulfillment of all Knowledge and Skills Framework requirements for this role
• Valid driver’s license, with a maximum of 3 endorsement points, except in exceptional cases in which a maximum of 6 points may receive consideration
• Practical communication skills (verbal and written) in delicate, contentious, and complicated situations. 
• Ability to deal with diverse types of people from different cultural and social backgrounds and in a customer/patient setting

Benefits

• Band 5 starting salary with the opportunity to move up to Band 6 after completing the transition to practice program, with a minimum of 300 hours preceptorship and ongoing CPD training.
• Enhancements of unsocial hours, following NHS Terms & Conditions Agenda for Change, Section 2 2021/2022)
• Robust NHS Pension Scheme
• 27 days starting annual leave, increasing to 29 days after five years of service, and eight bank holidays annually
• Coverage of relocation costs, including HCPC registration, support towards visa application, and flight
• Enrollment in the UK Driver Training Programme for emergency driving
• Pastoral care to assist with settling in the UK

Deadline: 17th December 2022