Job summary
Employer heading
OPERATIONAL TEAM LEADER Paddock Wood
Band 7
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.
Job overview
OPERATIONAL TEAM LEADER
Salary: Band 7
Locations: Paddock Wood
We are looking for experienced and engaged Paramedic to join our operational leadership team at Paddock Wood . The successful applicant will be a keen problem solver, a caring individual and dedicated to providing compassionate leadership to our frontline teams.
In order to apply, you must have successfully completed a minimum of two years as a practicing Experienced Paramedic at Band 6 by the advert closing date.
You will have the passion and drive to support your team to deliver the highest levels of patient care and clinical safety.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for highly motivated, operationally focused HCPC registered clinicians who have a desire to develop and lead an effective operational team. This will be coupled with ensuring the delivery of clinical and non-clinical KPIs at .
Operational Team Leaders will provide a core of effective leadership, clinical and management support for their team including maintaining their welfare, supporting personal development and reviewing performance.
You will also be expected to perform Operational Command (formerly Bronze Command) duties that include large scale and major incidents.
You will act as a direct line manager for a team of operational staff providing them with support, welfare and development.
Working for our organisation
This role will require excellent communication skills, flexibility and a high degree of personal organisation to determine priorities and the ability to handle a range of issues. You will need to be an excellent problem solver, demonstrating flexibility in your approach to the changing priorities the Trust faces on a day-to-day basis.
These aforementioned attributes are integral to the role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Operational Team Leaders will provide a core of effective leadership, clinical and management support for their team, including maintaining their welfare, supporting personal development and reviewing performance and progress.
The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing a team of staff within the operating unit, ensuring their continued development and clinical competence and will be responsible for all aspects of welfare for their team members, this will include all areas of sickness and absence management together with any staff welfare issues that may occur when performing the Bronze function.
The post holder will be responsible for co-ordinating all aspects of Personal and Development Reviews within their own team and working
alongside other operational team leaders and clinical mentors within the operating unit to ensure a consistent approach.
PLEASE NOTE IN APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE YOU ARE AWARE THAT THERE IS A REQUIREMENT TO REMAIN AT THE LOCATION OFFERED FOR 12 MONTHS BEFORE APPLYING FOR A TRANSFER OF WORKNG LOCATION VIA THE TRUST TRANSFER PROCESS. ANY POSITIONS THAT COME AVAILABLE IN THIS 12 MONTH PERIOD THE TRUST WILL ADVERTISE AND APOINT ACCORDINGLY. THIS IS BECAUSE THE LEADERSHIP TEAM AND STAFF NEED STABILITY.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Band 6 experienced paramedic, with a minimum of 2 years (24 mths) experience at Band 6
Leadership
Essential criteria
- Evidence of previous leadership roles undertaken within statement, or working towards this through job shadowing, previous acting up, CPD
- Compassionate leadership, or if they’ve not managed a team how they would approach this
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Evidences an understanding of our Trust values and how they work towards these in their current role
Personal Statement
Essential criteria
- stakeholder/ relationship management
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dave Hawkins
- Job title
- Operating Unit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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