TRU Paramedic

The Tactical Response Unit forms part of the response element of the Department for Resilience and Specialist Assets, which ensures that the London Ambulance Service prepares, trains and exercises for potential incidents and events.

Emerging threats over the past few years have led to the creation of the Tactical Response Unit who, alongside delivering high quality patient care on a day to day basis, receive additional training and equipment to be able to work as part of a multi-agency team to respond to specific firearms and other incidents, should the need arise.

The Tactical Response Unit also supports some of the wider Resilience functions at events and incidents.

Key elements of the role of a Paramedic within the Tactical Response Unit are:•    Undertaking the full range of core operational duties on response cars and ambulances•    Working as part of a multi-agency team to deliver specific response capabilities in challenging environments•    Undertaking Joint Response Unit shifts as part of the partnership working with the Metropolitan Police Service, responding directly to Police generated calls •    Working as part of a Medical Response Team, responding in crowded places and at events and incidents•    Supporting the wider Resilience & Specialist Assets Department through roles such as: Command Support Vehicle driver, Loggist, and SORT Operative

As a registered practitioner be responsible for undertaking and documenting a comprehensivepatient assessment, providing appropriate care and treatment, referring, discharging orconveying patients to the most suitable place of definitive care, this may include specialistcentres e.g. heart attack centre, major trauma centre or hyper acute stroke unit.

Working to the current HCPC standards of proficiency for Paramedics, the paramedic will leadon the clinical and operational development of students and staff, providing high qualitymentorship and education in practice.

Assist in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of unscheduled careinvolving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations, particularlywithin the primary care field.

Tactical Response Unit clinicians have the awareness and ability that allows them to respond toMarauding Terrorist Attack (MTA) incidents utilising a standardised response, as part of anAmbulance Intervention Team, focusing on clinical interventions in this specific, high riskenvironment. This specialist capability operates at both a local and national level to provide NHScare to patients caught in complex or high-risk incidents.

TRU capabilities are consistent and interoperable at the national level enabling specialist resources to be combined in response tolarge-scale incidents.