Ambulance Care Assistant

2 months ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom EMED Group Full time
We have a fantastic opportunity for an Ambulance Care Assistant to serve your local community and join the Ambulance Service as part of our Ambulance crews based in Cambridge.

Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below.
An Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) 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 our service users to and from their medical appointments and between healthcare facilities.
What benefits can you expect?
Paid holiday entitlement
5 shifts per week (37.5hrs - 5 days out of 7)
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.
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 of ‘end of life’ service users, ensuring a high level of empathy is present at all times.
Building rapport by effectively communicating with patients and their relatives/friends.
Responsible for lifting, securing and helping service users in and out of the Ambulance.
Assist with the handing over of patients to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment centres/hospitals or to family/friends at their homes.
To be considered as an ACA, you will need to be:
Hold a valid UK manual driving licence.
An effective communicator and experience of communicating with others in what can often be emotional circumstances.
Be physically fit for patient handling and moving.
Pass an Enhanced DBS check (company funded).
Be able to work flexible shifts. Our operational hours are between 05:00 and 00:00, Monday to Sunday so you will need to work various shifts within these hours (with notice)
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.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £11.48 per hour

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