Job Description
HART Operative
Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) – Operatives
Applications are invited from existing Registered Paramedic’s to join the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team based at Clock Tower Road in Isleworth and Cody Road in Canning Town.
All applicants must have significant post-qualification ambulance operational experience. You will need to be a Registered Paramedic with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and have successfully completed a HCPC approved paramedic programme. Fully completed the NQP process. You will need to have demonstrable evidence of practice within the last 12 months. You will also need a current manual driving licence, valid in the UK and covering category C1 vehicles. You must have no more than three penalty points and at least two years’ driving experience. Beyond that, a dedicated approach to providing top quality care to others could well see you into one of the most satisfying and highly respected roles in the community.
If successful you will be required to attend a round of assessments & interviews, the proposed dates are:
22ndApril – Assessment day at HART East,
29thApril – Assessment day at HART West,
w/c 15thMay Interviews.
The Hazardous Area Response Team HART are staff trained to operate in the inner cordon at an incident.
HART Paramedics will receive training in high-risk operations including national courses and others to meet the HART Capabilities. HART Paramedics are expected to work in highly pressurized environments and staff will need to be mentally and physically resilient to undertake the role.
It may not be possible to progress applications from staff who suffer from vertigo, claustrophobia, skin allergies, or inhaler-dependent asthma. Those taken forward will be subject to an enhanced medical and fitness assessment, clinical and competency assessment, interview and DBS check. Competency assessments include working at height, confined space, physical fitness, face fit, and swimming.
Attendance is required at each assessment type pending successful completion of each assessment stage. Successful candidates will need to be free for at least a six-week residential course.
Further details
Colin Pinnington 07879480564
Our organisation is driven by our strategic objectives and organisational values and we look for people who are strongly aligned with them.
As a registered practitioner be responsible for undertaking and documenting a comprehensive patient assessment, providing appropriate care and treatment, referring, discharging or conveying patients to the most suitable place of definitive care, this may include specialist centres 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 lead on the clinical and operational development of students and staff, providing high quality mentorship and education in practice.
Assist in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of unscheduled care involving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations, particularly within the primary care field.
HART staff work closely with other emergency service teams, providing paramedic care at a range of incidents including hazardous material incidents, either as result of accidental or deliberate release, structural collapse and Urban Search and Rescue incidents, confined space incidents, working at height, specialist firearms incidents and working on or in water.