KENT Ambulance NHS Trust is expecting to take on 120 additional staff over the next 18 months.

The new jobs have been made possible by extra investment to improve the ambulance service in Kent and Medway.

However, the Trust's staff development centre at Oakwood Park in Maidstone is already at full capacity with students being trained for the ambulance service and additional accommodation is urgently needed.

Chief Executive Hayden Newton said: "We anticipate that 120 additional staff will have to be trained over the next 18 months. On top of this we also have a lot of mandatory training to carry out for our existing staff.

"It is critical that we find additional and suitable training accommodation."

The Trust says the accommodation will have to be of a suitable size to allow the practical training that staff have to carry out.

It is essential that there are two classrooms for 20 students, an office and suitable parking.

The Trust says it would also be desirable, but not essential, to have a dining room, with meals provided, and bedrooms with ensuite accommodation for up to 22 students, Mondays to Fridays only.

Anyone who knows of any suitable accommodation is asked to contact the Trust's HR director, Janet Brierley, on 01622 740326.