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South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

About

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is part of the National Health Service (NHS). We respond to 999 calls from the public, urgent calls from healthcare professionals and provide NHS 111 services across the region.

As part of the NHS we are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. It ensures that health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate high quality care and encourages care services to improve.

You can find our latest report here South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - Overview - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk) and previous reports on the CQC Website.

We have a vision to support our staff and provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities.

Our 4,000+ staff provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire.

Our two main functions:

Accident and emergency service to respond to 999 calls
NHS 111 service for when medical help is needed fast, but it's not an emergency

We currently have a number of available roles and we would love for you to join our service.

Contact

Address: Nexus House; 4 Gatwick Road; Crawley; West Sussex; RH10 9BG
Contact Number: 0300 123 0999

Find out more

Jobs Website

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Ref: 278-IS/SP-BTON-LH Vacancy ID: 5879000

Student Paramedic Apprenticeship Programmes Brighton

Closed for applications on: 29-Jan-2024 00:03

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 29-Jan-2024 00:03

Location

Town: Brighton
Major / Minor Region: West Sussex

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Apprenticeship: 18 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Grade: Current Banding

Specialty

Main area: Apprenticeship

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.

Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.

Advert

Experience required:

You will need to have an absolute minimum of 18 months NHS A&E ambulance experience as an AAP by the commencement date of your assigned UoC programme. Note: This experience commences from the point that you completed your initial training and progressed to ambulance shifts as a trainee AAP (tAAP).

Qualifications required:

· You can apply if you have GCSE Maths and English Language at grades A* - C (or 4 - 9) or functional skills level 2 for Maths and English. Other qualifications will be considered against the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) specifications for Apprenticeship programmes and assessed on an individual basis.

· The level 4 AAP diploma or other Healthcare related credits (120) at level 4 or higher (verified on application by the UoC admissions team.)

o Please note: applicants must have fully completed their AAP programme (including the End Point Assessment (EPA) and be able to produce all certification by the closing date of this advert. (Closing date 14/01/24)

o Interviews for the July 2024 cohort will be held during the month of April/May 2024 (final dates TBC)

Note: Any submitted qualifications from overseas must be translated by a certified Chartered Institute of Linguists translator

Please be advised that evidence for all of your relevant academic qualifications will need to be provided by the published advert closing date as part of your application. Applicants will be directed to upload all relevant certification via their TRAC account to the recruitment advisor. These can be scanned or photographed copies of their certificates and must be received by the recruitment advisor as part of their TRAC application. Any problems with uploading any of your documentation, please contact the named HR Recruitment Advisor for this advert ASAP.

Please note: The recruitment team will not be able to request certificates from each applicant if these are not uploaded with the application.

Please take care to complete your application form carefully – missing information could result in your application failing to be processed.

Final approval and confirmation of places on the programme will be decided by the University of Cumbria following a review of all relevant qualifications and documentation against the ESFA specifications for Apprenticeship programmes.

Working for our organisation

As part of the initial application process, there will be a mandatory requirement for applicants to complete a 1000 word academic reflective piece of writing using a recognised reflective model (i.e. Gibbs, Rolfe). To assist you with how to formulate and write your reflective piece, please follow the essay completion guidance notes attached to the advert. Alternatively, SECAmb staff have been granted access to the UoC’s HeadStart® website which gives great insight and information to assist with study skills. The link to the UoC HeadStart® can be found here

The 1000 word piece will require you to write about an incident that you have attended within the past 12 months. This can be any nature of incident from a fall to a full arrest or a trauma situation. Remember that the reflective piece has to include all of the elements of your chosen cycle, so word count adherence is vital. The essay will need to be written using Microsoft Word and be submitted to the following SECAmb e-mail - [email protected] along with a cover sheet that includes your TRAC application number and final word count.

To aid applicants with their essay completion, Clinical Education will be happy to receive formative submissions which can be sent in at any time during the period that the advert is live to the [email protected] address. The team will supply feedback and areas of advice or support which in turn will allow the applicant the opportunity to complete their submission. A final summative submission date will then be set in agreement with the applicant and Clinical Education.

Note: Any applicant that has a statement/summary of support needs, do please make the recruitment team aware of this on submission of your application.

In addition and to give applicants further support, there will be a requirement for applicants to enrol on to the Open University’s (OU) free ‘Essay and Report writing skills module. As stated, this is a free 15 hour duration short programme that offers a certificated level 3 essay programme designed to improve any essay completion. As this is a certificated programme on completion, we would encourage applicants to sign up and complete as soon as possible. Any certificate gained will then need to be uploaded as part of your application to show that you have undertaken this programme. the link to the OU programme can be found here

Following completion of the shortlisting and essay stages, applicants will be invited to interview which is a joint process between SECAmb Clinical Education and the Faculty from the UoC. Full details of the interview dates, times and requirements will be sent out to successful candidates from the essay stage via TRAC.

Points to note:

Applicants who are successful in gaining a place on the Level 6 Apprenticeship BSc Paramedic Science programme with UoC will be required to follow the set timetables and are expected to take annual leave with minimal disruption to the programme. Any pre-planned leave may therefore have to be re-arranged or re-booked in accordance with the timetable.

This is a full-time commitment with regards to face-to-face study and clinical placement hours. Staff must work to a minimum of 30 hours per week. If you currently work less than 30 hours per week and you are successful in gaining a place on the programme, prior to enrolling with the UoC you will be required to increase your hours in order to meet the demands of the programme and to meet the full-time commitments.

Successful applicants will receive a student paramedic contract, requiring the individual to relinquish their current rota position. As of winter 2020 all staff on clinical development will have been moved to a relief rota to support operations in

planning shifts and minimise the balancing of hours during abstraction periods. Any pre-agreed flexible/tailored working arrangements would need to be re-negotiated in conjunction with the Operational, Education and University Teams.

On successful completion of the BSc, paramedic contracts will be issued once the applicant appears on the Health and Care Professions Council registrants list.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For an operational balance of abstractions, the decision has been made to limit places to two per Dispatch Desk (DD). This is to allow for the amount of abstraction required to complete the programme without compromising operational demand. This will also be at the discretion of the relevant Operating Unit manager (OUM) as to whether staff can be released to attend the University.

The Trust is committed to ensuring all our staff have the appropriate support to develop, and we particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including neurodiverse individuals or those with additional learning difficulties. For an informal discussion about BSc Degree programmes, how we can support you with reasonable adjustments as part of the programmes or to discuss acceptable qualifications for entry, please contact.

Warwick Avery, SECAmb Clinical Education Lead on:

Mobile: 07884 263154 Email: [email protected] [email protected]

If you need any support completing the application form please contact [email protected]

Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.

Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.

Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.

In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.

Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.

The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.

The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable.

We are a committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.

When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.

The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.

Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact [email protected] stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.

When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history.

Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.

Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.

Follow our recruitment on Twitter @SECAmbRecruit and check out our Facebook page - SECAmb NHS Recruitment. You can also find us on Linkedin under South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicated Section 2 page on The Zone.

Applicant requirements

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.