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Events Healthcare Professional – Paramedic (casual)

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. In addition to your hourly rate, you will receive a generous annual leave allowance.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,400 employees and over 31,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response & Nighttime Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

St John Ambulance provide First Aid and Medical Provision to thousands of events each year. You will be providing clinical care to patients presenting to St John Ambulance across our exciting and varied events portfolio. Our Event Healthcare Professionals will be providing pre-hospital care at a large range of exciting events such as music festivals, motoring, equestrian & sports events. You will be supported with modern equipment and vehicles, working alongside our volunteers and other employed St John people. This role will primarily involve shifts during sociable hours although some may be long in duration. You will be working alongside a blended team of SJA volunteers, event organisers and other uniformed emergency services at events demonstrating clinical leadership and support. It is essential that you have experience in managing acutely unwell patients in the emergency setting, whether that be in an emergency department or pre-hospital.

• Registered paramedic (Excl. NQP)
• Evidence of CPD activity within the last 12 months
• Educated to degree level or evidence of post registration advance study
• It is essential that you can evidence regular and recent experience in managing acutely unwell patients in the pre-hospital environment
• Experience of accessing and/or referring to alternative care pathways

• Willing to accept work at various event deployments on a casual basis as advertised by the Events Team to provide care to patients.
• Deployments on events may include ambulance crew or stationed at a Treatment Centre; flexible approach required.
• Deliver clinical care, in line with the standards set by your regulatory body (HCPC).
• Work to the Scope of Practice framework set by St John Ambulance.
• Utilise senior clinical help when faced with situations / clinical presentations outside of your knowledge base.
• Ensure appropriate and timely referrals are made to other agencies, utilising agreed procedures.
• Work with the event clinical management team to maintain infection, prevention, and control standards.

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do nottolerate any form ofdiscriminationandengendera sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship.We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.

St John Ambulance is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice. Therefore, all successful applicants will undergo pre-employment checks, including DBS Clearance, as part of the onboarding process, if applicable to the nature of the role

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.