Paramedic Needed

Your new company
Enhanced Care Services is a rapidly developing organisation with a clear ethos of delivering high-quality standards of care and is seeking hard-working and driven candidates who are keen to continue our strive for excellence. Founded in 2015, ECS has developed into a highly regarded, clinically led organisation with excellent standards and a focus on patient care. Having initially delivered enhanced and critical care to a range of events, ECS now oversees the medical cover to a range of large-scale events each year, whilst also operating 24/7 frontline ambulance and clinical services and providing medical education at all levels. 2023 has seen ECS launch a brand-new Education Centre and expand its provision to include both undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes. 2023 has seen ECS open a brand-new HQ - look at our new facilities.
We are currently looking for Paramedics within the Southampton and Portsmouth area.

Your new role
Whilst the role will primarily be focussed towards frontline delivery, it will give you exposure to a variety of service environments that will contribute to your professional and clinical development. You will work alongside a passionate multidisciplinary team, utilising your clinical skills to carry out first aid and minor treatments, through to urgent and emergency care, treating patients within a defined scope of practice. The role is ideal for Paramedics who aspire to develop their clinical skills by responding to a range of emergency and non-emergency situations whilst delivering high quality, professional and compassionate care.
As part of our ambulance services, you may be required to undertake routine Patient Transport, Urgent Care GP Admissions, Inter-facility transfers or respond to 999 emergency calls on our frontline contracts.
As part of our event activity, you will have the opportunity to work at high profile events across the country, ensuring timely and effective care to patients irrespective of injury, illness or location.You will engage with CPD opportunities, displaying the organisation's values and professionalism in all engagements.

Job Summary Operational Delivery

• Use your advanced driving skills to respond to medical emergencies
• Safely transfer patients to and from ambulances, using specialist equipment and manual handling skills
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  Work alongside other clinicians responding to a range of ambulance activities
• Complete thorough handover reports and record all patient treatment information
• Carry out equipment checks of ambulances to ensure they are safe for operational use
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  Carry out all duties, working within the defined scope of practice and adhering to protocols, policies, SOP's and clinical guidelines, seeking appropriate clinical advice and/or support as required.
• Deliver high quality patient care across a range of operational activity
• Operate within the scope of practice and ensure high quality, appropriate patient contact and documentation
• Ensure that clinical standards are met and exceeded at all times, making effective clinical decisions within guidelines and policies & procedures
• Treat patients with respect and dignity and maintain confidentiality in relation to personal data, ensuring it is processed lawfully.
• You will lead the assessment of patients and administer care in high pressure situations.

Professional Development
Encourage the development of their clinicians for professional growth and clinical progression through the passion the team has for medicine. Through regular team training days, subsidised and/or funded CPD courses and encouraging skills sessions with other team members, we believe that providing a supportive environment for you will allow you to enhance your existing clinical and people management skills, as well as support you to advance your career through our clinical leadership structure.

Enhanced Care Services offers tremendous opportunities for healthcare professionals through a variety of roles. We encourage the development of our team for professional growth and clinical progression through the passion our team has for medicine. We believe that providing a supportive environment for our clinicians allows them to flourish.
Staff at ECS benefit from:

• Secure contracted activity

Competitive salary of £45,500 to £54,600 (pro rata) plus unsocial hours payments

• Individual self-directed annual study budget for all roles
• Pay protection in the event of sickness and death in service benefit.
• 16 hours of funded essential education for all ambulance clinicians and monthly CPD sessions run by our multidisciplinary Education Faculty
• Bespoke, modern ambulances that are less than 5 years old, all fully equipped to a high standard and made ready and maintained by our dedicated Make Ready team.
• Opportunities to work across all operational activities as part of your core contracted hours with a desire to move to 50/50 frontline working for those who wish to by the end of 2024.
• Access to senior leadership and senior clinicians to support you meet your work aspirations.
• Self-rostering within agreed 4 on 4 off roster plan and flexible working options, including part time/job share opportunities.
• 224 hours of annual leave (inc. bank holidays)
• Opportunity to work across a range of operational activity and work within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Gain experience across a breadth of clinical presentations and management
• Work for an organisation where education is prioritised.
• Regular team training days
• Discounted courses
• Personal study budgets for all employees
• Monthly free CPD sessions

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