Join our team

Overview:
We are looking for a Face-to-Face Fundraiser with excellent communication and people skills to join our team raising vital funds for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work close to home, receive fantastic pay and commission, and be offered benefits for employed positions.

Responsibilities:

• Work in the local area asking the public for a small regular monthly donation to support the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance.
• Build rapport quickly with people and represent the charity as a brand ambassador.
• Receive full training and ongoing management support, as well as regular visits to the airbase and updates from the charity team and paramedics.

Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills
• Friendly, polite, and positive with the ability to build rapport quickly with people.
• Enjoys working out in the field or onsite in the local area rather than being stuck behind a desk in an office.
• Would suit door-to-door sales professionals from utilities and other sales backgrounds, or any other applicants with face-to-face people skills.

Opportunities:

• Permanent, employed, self-employed, full-time, or part-time.
• Venue and door-to-door.
• Employed, basic, full-time salary of between £20,600 – £31,200 plus commission and with a pension and 28 days holiday.
  Self-employed positions are available and are paid weekly.
• Earning incentives throughout the year.

Our Company:

• Market-leading fundraising company established for over 35 years.
• Ethical values with real career prospects and a solid team of over 200 people.
• Supportive management and training.

How to Apply:

Call our recruitment partners on 01425 517030 or email your CV to jobs@lfs.co.uk or apply online.

All levels of experience are considered, and full training is provided.

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Job Requirements:

Key Purpose

• Developing Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance charity (HIOWAA) clinical strategy.
• As part of the Senior Leadership Team, supporting HIOWAA to meet its aim and objectives
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships across UHS, HIOWAA, SCAS and other relevant stakeholders.
• Responsible for driving ensuring HIOWAA’s continuous improvement in pre-hospital critical care.

The HEMS Clinical Lead will be responsible for maintaining and developing high standards of clinical delivery and assisting with strategic development alongside HIOWAA, ensuring that our care is purpose driven, values led, and the patient is at the centre of everything we do.

The HEMS Clinical Lead will be a member of the UHS HEMS Senior Leadership Team and the HIOWAA charity Senior Management Team. South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight Ambulance Service and St Mary’s Hospital are key partners who post holder will also engage with on a regular basis. The post holder will be required to develop and nurture these essential relationships.

Organisational and Strategic Duties:

• Maintain effective liaison between the HEMS Care Group and HIOWAA charity alongside the Care Group Manager and Paramedic Clinical Lead by providing clinical direction, developing collaborative relationships with other services, and attending board and committee meetings to ensure consistent and clinically focussed development
• Play a key role in the development and implementation of HIOWAAs organisational strategy and clinical service delivery
• Together with the Paramedic Clinical Lead, be responsible for clinical standards and advise on best clinical practice
• Provide professional leadership for the medical staff
• Maintain high standards of clinical care, patient safety, clinical governance, and supervision of the medical team
• Highlight clinical areas for audit, research and development
• Maintain and develop the HEMS clinical standard operating procedures (SOPs) and guidelines.
• Attend and participate in HEMS Clinical Governance and Education days, advising on the educational content for the medical induction course, operational proficiencies and on-going training programmes.
• Assist in the recruitment and selection of doctors and paramedics
• Coordinate and lead on medical appraisals
• Responsible for the Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) training programme
• Represent HIOWAA at essential contractual forums and meetings, developing relationships for the benefit of HIOWAA Charity and HEMS delivery
• Represent HIOWAA at external forums and events. Act as a spokesperson with the media and engage with other promotional activity as required.
• Perform duties as part of the Senior Management Team to provide guidance to fellow team members
• Monitor and protect reputation of HIOWAA and UHS as a safe and effective HEMS service

Other General Duties:

• Contribute towards a positive, people centred culture across the organisation focusing on developing departmental relationships, and a supportive, safe and progressive environment
• Be an ambassador for UHS and HIOWAAs goals, values, behaviours, purpose and vision
• Have a strong commitment for continuous professional and personal development
• Complete a minimum of 2 HEMS Consultant shifts per month, working day, late, weekend and bank holiday shifts as part the HEMS doctor roster
• Participate in HEMS training/education days, and support HEMS team engagement initiatives intended to promote inclusivity and crew care.

Contractual Hours:

2PA Clinical Lead, 2.5 PA HEMS Consultant, 0.5 SPA
This job description is subject to review and alteration in light of future change or service development.

Person Specification:

Download the Person Specification

The person specification provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

Additional Information:

Individuals wishing to apply must be fully registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and should be either already on or within 6 months of eligibility to be included on the specialist register of the GMC.

The successful candidate will be employed under the terms and conditions of service for Consultants (England) 2003.

Interviews will be held on Monday, 03 April 2023

Job Reference: 188-MT00915 – This vacancy closes on or before: 14th March 2023

Job responsibilities:

Working as an NHS employee, this varied role includes undertaking shifts at the SCAS Southern Clinical Co-ordination Centre in Otterbourne, as well as undertaking clinical shifts as part of a doctor-paramedic critical care team or independently as a paramedic response based at the HIOWAA airbase in Thruxton and at the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Charity office in Southampton.

What were looking for:
HEMS Specialist Paramedics (SP) will need to have achieved a minimum of PGDip in Advanced Clinical / Paramedic Practice or equivalent Level 7 study and experience including evidence a portfolio of clinical practice in extended skills which include advanced patient assessment, airway management, analgesia, procedural sedation, thoracostomy, cardioversion and pacing. As a HEMS SP you will be an ALS and APLS provider and utilise your skills both as part of an enhanced care team, working alongside a team of senior doctors providing critical care interventions including pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia and administration of blood products, as well as providing an enhanced care response as a solo car-based SP.

We are seeking applicants who want to bring their experience and passion for pre-hospital care to our team and continue to develop. In addition to clinical shifts, there will be opportunities to engage in supporting university and local ambulance service education, participate in audit and service improvement activity and get involved in research. We will also support you to progress with your postgraduate education.

We are keen to attract the best candidates and recognise that there may be highly experienced applicants who may not meet all the criteria to undertake this role and may not have had the opportunity to gain some of the specialist qualifications required.

The ideal candidates will already have experience as a qualified Specialist Paramedic (Critical Care) and working within a HEMS environment. However, we will consider applications from appropriately qualified and pre-hospital experienced Specialist Practitioners / Critical Care Practitioners who have no prior HEMS experience, if they are willing to commit to a programme of education to achieve the standard required, including completion of a HEMS Technical Crewmember and HEMS Clinical Crew course. In this situation we would consider appointing high quality candidates on a Trainee Specialist Paramedic contract if they are able to reach the required standard within 6 months of appointment.

The recruitment process will consist of:

• Functional fitness assessment and OSPEs 11th April 2023
• Panel Interview 12th April 2023

Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Michael Bradfield, Paramedic Clinical Lead (michael.bradfield@uhs.nhs.uk) for an informal discussion about the role.

Additional information:

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 11th April 2023.

** Please note that if you wish to apply for an entry-level Trainee Specialist Paramedic role, intended for those without the qualifications and experience described here, there will be a separate recruitment process planned for later in 2023 **

Visit the UHS website to see the person specification and values and to apply.