Hart Team Leader - Bedfordshire, United Kingdom - East of England Ambulance Service Trust

East of England Ambulance Service Trust

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Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The HART Team Leader will be responsible for managing a team of staff who will respond to incidents which have occurred in hazardous environments or where the HART skills will improved patient outcomes.

The HART Team Leader will be responsible for ensuring all staff they are responsible for remain safe while within the workplace.

The HART Team Leader will provide specialist advice and guidance to Trust managers acting as an incident commander and the HART Team Leader will be responsible for all HART operations within the warm or hot zone of an incident.

The HART Team Leader will ensure all line management tasks are completed for the staff they are responsible for as well as ensuring their own personal key performance indicators are maintained at all times.

Operational

To provide specialist clinical support and knowledge within HART specific situations.
Supervise, direct, coordinate and deliver life saving clinical care for patients within the inner cordon including triage (where appropriate, toxic triage), diagnosis, appropriate treatment, prior to, and during, decontamination (if contamination present) and in situations of difficult access in HART incidents, at times being the only clinician in situ and deliver casualties into mainstream healthcare
Collaborate with partners operating alongside the HART and liaise with specialist agencies e.g. UKHSA, DCHAPS, Fire Service USAR to gather relevant information on scene
Provide clinical support and backup to multiagency service personnel working in the inner cordon
Comply with and contribute to Command & Control in the inner cordon / Hot/Warm Zones supervising the deployment of resources, casualty management and evacuation
To highlight potential training needs to better develop the role in the future.
In the event of providing mutual aid in responding to a National incident, be away from home for unknown periods of time.
Working within the Team, ensure the readiness of PPE, clinical and operational equipment and vehicles is maintained, and routine care and maintenance is carried out to ensure a high state of preparedness.
To undertake any other duties associated with the role as directed by the Specialist Operations Manager/NILO or Incident Commander.

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

Care
We value warmth, empathy and compassion in all our relationships

Teamwork

Together as one, we work with pride and commitment to achieve our vision

Quality

We strive to consistently achieve high standards through continuous improvement

Respect

We value individuals, including our patients, our staff and our partners in every interaction

Honesty

We value a culture that has trust, integrity and transparency at the centre of everything we do.

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

Leadership & Management

Supervise the work of the team and the individuals within it.
Provide proactive leadership motivating team members and leading by example
Determine decision making parameters for the team, e.g. levels of PPE, upgrading or downgrading of incidents.
Provide full audit trail to evidential standard for all incidents and events attended in operational log.
Complete administrative procedures, to include recording and monitoring of all leave and other absence.
Monitor and evaluate the quality of operations.
Conduct briefings, tasking and debriefings.
Conduct investigations into any accident or other incident relating to the HART Team in accordance with local procedures.
Monitor any vehicle, equipment and accommodation defects and ensure these are recorded using the relevant local and/or HART reporting procedures.
Carry out the necessary daily administration and ensure that all daily vehicle and equipment checks are completed.
Manage the welfare of individuals in the team at all times and particularly following traumatic or major incidents, but at all times being alert to signs and symptoms of stress.
Conduct appraisals of HART Operatives.
Identify and plan any requirements including visits, and training (risk critical and other) for the team, maintaining trai