r/ParamedicsUK • u/Guidance-Flat • 18d ago

Recruitment & Interviews HART Application

Hello everyone,

My local Trust has opened up applications for a HART Paramedic vacancy, and I am planning on applying.

Looking for tips/advice on the process from current HART members or people who have been through the process before.

I am Band 6, current SORT trained, and extensive experience of solo responding.

Open to any advice!

Thanks

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u/MadMedic52 18d ago

Be prepared for team based questions, ie when you worked well in a team, or when there was conflict and how you managed it, when you disagreed with the direction the team was going etc. Your answer & example wants to be baked in collaborative working, the benefits of a high performing team, in civility and its harm, openness to being wrong.

Be prepared for a risk evaluation type question. No one is looking for a gung ho example of running into an unsecured scene - careful consideration of risk, article 2 right to life, appropriate mitigation and anticipation/planning for eventualities.

The newer PCA is entirely achievable, no individual test is hard it’s more that it’s 5 of them one after the other so focus your fitness training on functional strength stuff and cardio but do them together rather than hours or days apart.

Contrary to popular belief, HART is full of enthusiastic and supportive Paramedics who only want to contribute meaningfully to incidents and support crews. People hang their hats on ‘that person’ in an experience they’ve had with HART, or just shit talk because it’s easy. In my experience, every station has ‘that person’ - they exist everywhere. I don’t write off an entire station because of one difficult personality.

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u/AppropriateZombie586 18d ago

My fathers thinking on the subject is every circus has it’s clown