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Job overview
This vacancy is for candidates for Norfolk West (Kings Lynn Hub) ONLY.
Please note: Candidates who have applied and completed the recruitment process within the past 6 months are not eligible to apply at this time.
We are welcoming applications fromstudentsto continue their Paramedic career with the East of England Ambulance Service Trust. This means applicants must have have graduated, or are due to graduate by January 2026. If you have completed university placements with EEAST, please include this in your application.
Candidates must live within one hour's travel of the Kings Lynn Ambulance Station or be willing to relocate to be eligible to apply.
Transfer Restrictions:
Successful applicants will not be eligible to join the internal transfer list for a period of 24 months while completing their consolidation period.
Main duties of the job
At EEAST we expect our paramedic workforce to continue to deliver CQC rated ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and work harmoniously alongside our dedicated team of clinical staff, volunteers, call handlers and dispatchers and support services. Paramedics will routinely work with other Allied Health Professionals in partnership organisations in both hospitals and community based services to ensure safe referrals and discharge.
A shift on an ambulance is like no other workplace. You will operate in a wide range of environments, across both urban and rural areas managing everything from birth to end of life, chronic conditions to critical illness or injury.
The two-year NQP consolidation provides you with a structured, nationally developed program of support, mentorship and supervision allowing you to transition from newly qualified in to a confident and fully autonomous clinician.
Support includes:
1. No solo responding in first 6 months
2. 150-300 hours supervised practice in first 12 weeks after registration with an experienced paramedic.
3. Practice Educator course completion at 9 months onwards, via Trust approved practice education program.
4. A 24/7 Clinical Advice Line to validate your clinical decision-making, discharging planning and practice, advice on procedures or escalate critical, complex on scene decisions.
5. Personally issued tablet to access electronic patient care records, up to date clinical guidelines, incident management and alternative care pathway applications.
Working for our organisation
Our vision - Outstanding care, exceptional people, every hour of every day. #WeAreEEAST
EEAST employs over 5,000 staff with a further 1,000+ volunteers who between them cover 7,500 square miles and care for a population of more than 6 million.
Our three control rooms in Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Essex handle more than 1 million 999 calls every year, over 2,500 calls a day.
We manage a fleet of over 1,000 vehicles including double staffed ambulances, rapid response cars, operational commander response vehicles, patient transport and support service vehicles.
The East of England works alongside 17 Acute Trusts with Accident & Emergency services and a Major Trauma Centre in Cambridge. Access is available to neighbouring MTCs such as those in London.
Our core values:
6. We are accountable
7. We are respectful
8. We strive to be excellent
Our 4 goals are:
Be an exceptional place to work, volunteer and learn
Provide outstanding quality of care and performance
Be excellent collaborators and innovators as system partners
Be an environmentally and financially sustainable organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Benefits include:
9. Career progression opportunities in to advanced clinical practice, leadership, education or research
10. Access to 24/7 clinical advice, Critical Care desk and an Operational Commander
11. Additional 5% fringe (high cost area) in certain areas of Hertfordshire and Essex
12. C1 reimbursement of up to £1,000 (subject to terms and conditions)
13. Level 3 Emergency Response Driving certificate
14. Pay enhancement for out of hours shift working
15. NHS Pension Scheme
16. Free parking
17. Minimum of 27 days annual leave
18. Occupational Health services including a 24hr Employee Assistance Program, mental health and wellbeing, legal and financial services
19. Staff support networks BAME, LGBTQ+, Multi Faith and All Women in EEAST.
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification.
Good luck with your application and thank you for considering EEAST as your future employer.
Person specification
Registration & Qualifications
Essential criteria
20. Current student on a HCPC approved Paramedic programme
21. On placement with East of England Ambulance Service
22. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (College of Paramedics membership, PHTLS, Resuscitation Council ALS etc)
Desirable criteria
23. HCPC Registered Paramedic (Check register)
Skills & Experience
Essential criteria
24. Documents the skills and knowledge required for the role (for example care, communication, teamwork)
Driving
Essential criteria
25. Full UK manual Driving Licence ( a maximum of 3 points for minor offences may be considered)
Desirable criteria
26. Emergency Response Driving Qualification
27. C1 Licence (1 for provisional)
You will be required to hold a full UK manual driving licence with a minimum of 1 years driving experience (maximum of 3 penalty points for minor motoring offences only).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.