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At the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, we work as one team to achieve our vision of delivering the best possible care to our patients when they need us most.
At the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, we work as one team to achieve our vision of delivering the best possible care to our patients when they need us most.
Working for us is an experience like no other. We provide emergency and urgent care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, operating across the largest ambulance region in England of 10,000 square miles and responding to an average of 2,650 incidents every day.
Every year we manage around 1 million incidents and travel over 22 million miles across the South West. We have over 90 ambulance stations, two Emergency Operations Centres where our 999 calls are answered and two Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART) who respond to major incidents involving hazardous materials or in hazardous environments.
In 2023 we launched our Trust Strategy 2023-28 this strategy represents a renewal of our commitment to continuously improving the care we give to patients across the South West. The strategy confirms a new vision and sets four clear strategic objectives for the next five years. For the first two years we will be focused on stabilising – we aim to deliver effective patient care, safety and performance,while also strengthening our partnership working. During the later years, we will use patient insights to continuously improve our service, and enhanced partner working to deliver, integrated and co-ordinated care for our 999 patients.
We have also set three new values where we work as one team, are united in our compassionate approach and where we are continually innovative and striving to improve.
The outstanding beauty, culture and diversity of our region – from the coast to city centres, from universities to ancient monuments – draws people from across the UK and the world. At the heart of this varied landscape,diverse population and wealth of history we employ over 6000 people and are supported by over 575 volunteers, serving a population that increases from 5.7 million up to 23 million throughout the year.
If you are looking to make areal difference to peoples’ lives, whilst working in a beautiful and diverse part of the country then we would love to hear from you.
In return we will equip you with the skills, resources and development you need to help you thrive in your role.
We’re proud to invest in education,training and development to support our people to be highly motivated professionals who take pride in their roles. You will have opportunities to progress and enjoy continuous professional development.
With annual performance and wellbeing conversations and the support of our team, you will have career potential that matches your ambitions.
Benefits
For all our people, there is the job satisfaction of knowing that what you do makes a difference, but as a Foundation Trust, every member of staff also benefits from working for the NHS with a competitive salary and:
- A standard working week of 37.5 hours
- Harmonised holiday entitlements of 27 days per year, plus general and public holidays, rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Pay enhancements for out of hours, shift and overtime working
- Generous NHS Pension Scheme
- Award winning Staying Well Service
- Career and salary progression
- Car leasing scheme
- Cycle-to-work and other salary sacrifice schemes
- Free parking across Trust sites
- Professional development and opportunities to progress to roles across the organisation
- Access to training and development opportunities beyond those essential for the role
- Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce
- Access to a wide range of discounts from various organisations across the UK
As an inclusive organisation, we welcome applicants irrespective of people’s age,disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity,religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We particularly encourage applications from people who are under represented within our sector, including people with lived experienced from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, people from the LGBT+ community, people with caring responsibilities and people with disabilities.
We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including an invitation to the first stage of the selection process, for applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy, and consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability under the “Disability Confident Scheme”.
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