HART Paramedic Pool

Overview

The Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) is a specialist capability within the ambulance service required to provide paramedic level care to patients caught within hazardous situations and subsequently increasing their chances of survival. These situations may be large scale major incidents or they may include more routine incidents for example working at height, difficult access or in water. In addition to the extensive additional training in specialist capabilities and working within safe systems of work, HART Paramedics become proficient in the use of a wide range of specialist protective clothing and incident management equipment.

As a HART Paramedic you will respond to complex and possibly protracted incidents. You will deliver paramedic interventions through key HART capability areas:

• Hazardous Materials incidents.
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear emergencies (CBRN)
• Marau nding Terrorist Attacks
• Safe Working at Height
• Confined Space
• Unstable Terrain
• Water Operations
• Support to Security Operations

We are looking for experienced paramedics to be placed into the recruitment pool for the Hazardous Area Response Team.

The process once applied is:

• Application shortlisting
• HART Physical Competency assessment Testing
• SCAS HART swim test
• Safe working at height confidence test, confined space assessment confidence test and a clinical OSCE.
• Successful completion of respiratory mask fit testing
• HART Interview (held on separate days to the physical selection testing day)
• Successful completion of further internal Trust requirements including occupational health screening

The HART selection days will be on the 4th and 12th February from  and the clinical assessments on the 13th and 18th February (times to be confirmed). Interview dates are to be confirmed.

Please note there are no alternative dates for assessment or interview.

• PCA
• Safe working at height
• Confined Space
• Swimming

Candidates should attend in uniform and wear appropriate boots. Please also bring running shoes and appropriate clothing as well as swimming costumes and goggles for the swim assessment. You will only attend an interview if you are successful at all elements of the assessment. You will be notified of the assessment results on the day.

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services. The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex. We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year.

We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

• Full training and support when you join and ongoing throughout your employment with us.
• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.