Paramedic (Rotational Deployed)

Alphamed Scotland have an exciting opportunity for a long-term remote medic position in the highlands of Scotland to support a large-scale evolving and developing project. We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic, flexible, and dynamic paramedics, paramedic practitioners and nurse practitioners from the emergency setting to join our team.

You will be joining our company at exciting times as we rapidly grow and expand the business into long-term medical site cover. If you have an adaptive mindset, robust clinical skills, and previous remote medical experience, then this is the job for you.

**About Alphamed Scotland**

Alphamed Scotland offers the provision of bespoke elite medical support and events cover. Our team of highly experienced emergency medicine and critical care trained clinical staff, complemented by our logistics and operational support staff, provide advanced pre-hospital care to ensure the delivery of safe events and long-term emergency care contracts throughout Scotland.

This position is to provide deployed emergency, urgent and primary care to a remote and rural location in the Highlands of Scotland. This requires the holder to work as an independent medic within their own scope of practice, supported by 24-hour access to a robust telemedical system.

You will help to develop the emergency care system on site at the location, including providing medical training to security staff, performing risk assessments, contributing to health and safety procedures and managing the on-site clinical inventory.

Reporting to the company’s Clinical Operations Manager you will be the face of the company to the client and must have excellent communication skills, including the ability to manage challenging communication situations.

**Key Requirements**
- A valid HCPC registration in the UK with no warnings, restrictions or supervision required to practice is essential coupled with a full UK driving license and access to your own vehicle
- Evidence of a minimum of 2 years post-graduate relevant clinical practice
- Evidence of ACLS and ATLS/PHTLS or equivalent training
- A dynamic and dedicated individual who will fit with our collaborative culture and be willing to help the development of the project
- Excellent organisational skills and communication skills (verbal and written)

You will be required to use your own vehicle to travel in and around Scotland as part of the role.

**Role Rotational System**

You will be working for a period of 2-weeks on-site, with day-time clinic hours and overnight on-call. During this time, you will not be permitted to leave the locale of the project or be more than a 5-minute walk from their emergency response vehicle. At the end of the 2-week on-call period you will handover to the incoming rotational medic.

All food (3 meals a day) and appropriate accommodation is provided. A work vehicle suitably equipped for response to emergencies will be provided on site.

All annual leave, student leave, professional development time and administration time is built into the 2-week off period.

Capped travel expenses will be covered in addition to the salary, to cover a designated number of return road journeys from Edinburgh for the number of set 2-week rotations within the contract. This journey will be performed in your own vehicle.

**Role Tasks**

The role will include the following key tasks:

- Provide emergency, urgent, and primary care where required to those on site at the location
- Escalate clinical cases to the on-call telemedical service as required
- Fill in required paperwork relevant to patient care in line with company policies and procedures
- Maintain the clinical inventory lists on site, including stock taking, ordering and procurement where required
- Provide basic medical and trauma training updates and CPD to staff on site
- Support the Alphamed Clinical team in providing scenario-based training where required on site
- Liaise with local medical services to ensure joined up management of patients
- Be on-call for the duration of the rotation period
- Attend client facing meetings to ensure the appropriate development of the emergency care system at the project
- To co-operate with management to ensure an effective working partnership for clinical care
- Have a professional approach, recognising the need for client discretion and confidentiality at all times

**Education, Qualification and Experience**
- Appropriate professional degree or diploma
- ACLS, APLS, ATLS or equivalent life support courses and skills
- Evidence of membership of the PVG scheme (note the holder will require full PVG checking prior to contract issue)
- Demonstrable ability to work quickly, flexibly, and accurately in a dynamic, changing and pressured environment
- Demonstrable ability to use own initiative for overcoming challenges
- Demonstrable proactive approach
- Demonstrable ability to effectively communicate with a diverse range of people
- Competent in the use of relevant