TERRITORIAL ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES-TA MS.

www.TAmedical.co.uk

The Territorial Army Medical Services provides vital support for the Regular Army. TA MS volunteers are healthcare professionals drawn from all occupational areas who have a unique opportunity to expand their existing skills and experience. As well as having the chance to broaden your medical horizons and gain a range of experience it would be hard to find elsewhere, you can make a valuable contribution to the TA and the army as a whole.

By training in such techniques as BATLS (Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support), you will understand the primary needs of soldiers in the field. You will also learn to plan, run and co-ordinate disaster relief and other humanitarian operations, and have the chance to serve abroad and put your training to good use in different theatres of operations with the Regular Army.

Learning to work in unfamiliar conditions will extend your skills, as well as improving your powers of communication, management and presentation. You will also gain confidence, the ability to apply imagination to solving problems and the energy and leadership qualities to motivate those around you. As with the rest of the TA, its hard work and you will need to be committed, but being a TA Medical Services volunteer will be a lot of fun too.

Doctors

The AMS will stretch you and push you in new directions. We need doctors at all levels in all specialities but above all doctors who are flexible and prepared to deal with the unexpected.

Nurses

You’ll be employed according to your civilian qualifications and experience, but in a challenging military environment. You’ll also get the chance to extend your clinical skills through courses such as the Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support course.

MILITARY TRAINING

Military medicine takes place in a demanding environment where you and your equipment must be equally robust. We’ll simulate the conditions that you might expect in war, either at the TA’s own purpose-built national medical training centre, or in the field. The training you get will help you develop your full potential.

Your military training will include progressive physical exercise as we want to make sure you’re fit enough to perform your skills in the field. You will also receive a basic level of weapons training so that you can unload an injured soldier’s weapon safely, as well as defend yourself and your patients. We’ll train you to read maps with confidence, move tactically and learn how to operate in the field.

ADVENTUROUS TRAINING

Adventurous training is an excellent way to develop confidence and character, and it compliments our medical and military training as well. Training can take place at home or abroad and might include trekking, canoeing, skiing and sailing; they all help to develop team skills and a sense of camaraderie.

COMMITMENT AND MOBILISATION

The annual training commitment varies between 19 days (2 weekends and a 15 day annual camp) and 27 days (6 weekends and 15 days annual camp) depending on the type of unit you join.

As a trained volunteer, you will be liable to be called out in times of crisis and war, and for humanitarian, peacekeeping and disaster relief operations. However the Ministry of Defence recognises that health professionals have particular responsibilities to their patients and employers. These responsibilities may also override training commitments at short notice. You and your employer both have the right to seek exemption from call out.

Headquarters 2nd Medical Brigade
Queen Elizabeth Barracks
Strensall
York
YO32 5SW

Tel : 0800 731 1201
Web. www.TAmedical.co.uk

 

 

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