Events and Commercial Services Paramedic

Job overview

As one of our Event Paramedics, you will often be the first healthcare professional on scene at medical incidents in an events setting such as football or horseracing and it will be your responsibility to treat and transport patients. When accompanied by a less clinically qualified colleague, such as an Ambulance Support Worker (ASW), you will be expected to assume clinical primacy, provide clinical support and take the lead.

Please Note: You will be required to attend an assessment centre prior to interview to complete an ECG exam and OSCE's.

Main duties of the job

Our Paramedics provide assessment of patients and plan and implement their care and treatment. This will include handling and administering drugs and performing invasive or surgical procedures where you are appropriately trained to do so. You will make potentially life-saving decisions about patient care such as, which destination or alternative service is most appropriate or what pre-hospital treatment is required.

You will have the ability to organise and manage the scene of a complex incident during initial stages until a Manager/Commander arrives. This could involve organising or managing patients, bystanders or other responding services with you taking the lead.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Undertake the full range of paramedic duties in line with the Trust’s operational instructions.
• Assess, treat, manage or refer, and where appropriate, convey patients according to the nature and severity of their condition to alternative care pathways.
• Carry out paramedic duties commensurate with national clinical practice guidelines and Trust specific PGD’s and guidelines
• Undertake duties in relation to major incidents including exercises which may require call out when off duty in accordance with the Trust’s Major Incident Procedure.
• Participate in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of emergency and urgent care involving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations.
• Maintain timely communications with Control using appropriate information and communication equipment and procedures.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.