Strategic Medical Advisor - Crawley, United Kingdom - South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

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Crawley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Strategic Command team on an on call basis as the Strategic Medical Advisor (SMA).

The role forms an integral part of the NHS response to major, complex and critical incidents, providing advanced medical advice at a range of emergency incidents.

This role provides a 24 hour on-call capability across the Trust geographical area.

The SMA is principally responsible for monitoring overall hospital capacity and ensuring the tactical level has access to the clinical resources it requires, particularly if national mutual aid is required from other sectors of the NHS.

You should have pre-hospital care experience working in a pre-hospital environment e.g. Ambulance Service, BASICs service, Air Ambulance etc.

Salary
On call only
- £15,000 per year payment split over 12 months + Statutory Holiday pay at 12.07%

Provide specialist guidance and support to the ambulance incident coordination centre, assessing the medical implications and response to any major or mass casualty incident, as well as rising tide and public health incidents.

Before additional medical resources are requested the Medical Advisor (MA) and Ambulance Incident Commander (AIC) should agree on their role at the scene and consider if this is the most effective use of resources.

Communicate with MA to establish the nature and complexity of casualties' injuries so that appropriate plans and preparations are made to distribute patients.

Ensure that appropriate Clinical advice is available (e.g via on scene expertise such as CCPs) to the ambulance clinicians and HART Team(s) attending the scene to ensure that the best possible outcomes for patients are achieved.

A key role will be ensuring wider patient safety within the Organisation during an incident.

To communicate clinician to clinician with the Acute Trusts and Foundation Trusts who are providing casualty receiving facilities or on standby to receive casualties.

The Acute Trusts should be able to provide accurate information about each participating Acute Trust capacity for theatre, critical care and bed availability.

Clear information from the MA about children as casualties and burns patients is particularly important.

NHS employees will be eligible to join the NHS Pension Scheme

A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing with service.

Personal and professional development and training opportunities.

Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.

Access to our award-winning Wellbeing services

Access to occupational health and counselling services.

Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals

Please refer to the Job Description for a comprehensive list of responsibilities attached to this role