SEND Driver

4 weeks ago

Redhill, United Kingdom EMED Group Full time

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Community Transport Assistant/Driver to join our team based in Redhill, Surrey.

A Community Transport Assistant is a hugely rewarding and fulfilling role. Each day, you ll be helping someone in need, making their lives that little bit easier, and knowing that you make a difference to their day provides you with a real sense of achievement.

Your main responsibility will be transporting SEND children to and from school. You will also support out PTS division in transporting elderly, sick and vulnerable service users to and from their place of education, medical appointments and between healthcare facilities. This can be carried out as two-person crews or alone, so it is vital to hold a full UK driving licence and to have a good degree of physical fitness.

What benefits can you expect?

  • £12.44ph
  • 20 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
  • Life Assurance providing colleagues and their family financial peace of mind and protection to the value of £5,000.
  • 24/7 online/telephone GP Consultation and access to prescriptions.
  • 2nd opinion medical support following diagnosis or where a colleague is on a treatment pathway.
  • Cash-plan benefits, providing colleagues the option of protecting themselves in case of illness and recuperation, including dental, optical, chiropody.
  • Unlimited mental health consultations.
  • Unlimited physiotherapy consultations.
  • Access to legal advice on domestic issues e.g. motoring offences, wills and probate, and personal injury.
  • Financial guidance re retirement planning, tax savings and state benefits.
  • Long Service Recognition Scheme recognising colleagues for their continued service after 5 years and at 5-year intervals with an increase in annual leave.
  • Values-based Internal Recognition Scheme with financial reward, which will lead to an annual recognition event.
  • Refer a Friend recruitment incentive scheme with financial rewards.
  • The EMED foundation, to provide support to colleagues and our local communities.
  • Paid holiday entitlement.
  • Pension Scheme.
  • Blue Light Card.
  • Uniform provided.
  • EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) to support a range of health and wellbeing requirements.
  • Flu vaccination (through an internal campaign in Autumn/Winter).

Other duties include:

  • Assisting in the transportation SEND school children to their place of education.
  • Building rapport by effectively communicating with Service users and their relatives/friends
  • Responsible for lifting, securing and helping service users in and out of the service vehicles to insure their safety at all time.
  • Assist with the handing over of service users to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment school, centres/hospital s or to family/friends at their homes.
  • Assisting service users with challenging behaviour and/or mental health illnesses
  • Ensuring that the Vehicles is kept safe, clean and tidy

To be considered for this role, you will need to be:

Full FREC 3 Training (Certificate in First Response Emergency Care)

Committed to Community Care

An effective communicator and experience of communicating with others in what can often be emotional circumstances

To be a calm, considerate, careful driver, with no more than three penalty points on your license

To have a natural flair for team working and collaboration

Be physically fit for patient handling, wheelchair on off boarding

Pass an Enhanced DBS check (company funded)

Able to hold a PHV taxi license

Able to work flexible shifts

Familiar with the local and surrounding area

Please note that this role will be subject to several regulatory pre-employment checks, and you will be asked to provide details of your full employment history should you be invited to an interview. Your HMRC record, available to download from the Government Gateway may help you in preparing this information when required.

Our Values

Collaborative We work as one team with a shared purpose to meet the needs of our patients, passengers, colleagues, customers, communities, and the planet.
Agile We listen, learn and adapt to improve the business, each other, and ourselves.
Reliable We do what we say we will do, we take responsibility and we behave with integrity.
Empowered We are confident and committed to taking responsibility to deliver the highest quality service.

About Us

The exciting merger of ERS Medical and E-Zec Medical has enabled us to rebrand, therefore as a combined business we are now known as EMED Group. We are the largest Patient Transport and Care Partner to the NHS with more than 2,500 colleagues across 50 depots. Our ambition is to continue developing transport services that improve the health and wellbeing for people across our local communities by providing transport that supports patient care, community support, secure mental health and medical courier services.

EMED Group are committed to providing equal opportunities and we endeavour to provide an inclusive and safe working culture for all.

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