Driver (Blaby)

Are you passionate about supporting your local community? Do you enjoy engaging with new people and driven by supporting others? If so, then this might be the role for you.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a **Driver** **to join our **Healthcare** **transportation team** **based in Blaby

We are expanding our community service support and creating a new division within our already established patient transport business, which will see us delivering care in the community by transporting Special Educational and Disability Needs (SEND) transport for children to and from healthcare facilities; ie schools and other learning hubs to repatriation and travel to specialist education centres.

Your role will be hugely rewarding, albeit challenging, however we can offer you the opportunity to become an invaluable colleague very quickly within our team.

Location**:Blaby, Leicestershire**

Salary**:£11.44 per hour**

**What benefits can you expect?**
- Paid holiday entitlement
- £11.44 per hour
- 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)_

**Hours of work**

Split shifts
- Monday to Friday 07:45 - 09:45 / 14:15 - 16:15

**Do you have what it takes? A great Community Transport Assistant (SEND) will be required to;**
- Deliver excellent customer service
- Display a calm, considerate and careful driver behaviour.
- **You will need a full UK driving licence with no more than three penalty points**:

- Be an effective and confident communicator
- Naturally demonstrate team collaboration

**Our Values**

**C**ollaborative - We work as one team with a shared purpose to meet the needs of our patients, passengers, colleagues, customers, communities, and the planet.
**A**gile - We listen, learn and adapt to improve the business, each other, and ourselves.
**R**eliable - We do what we say we will do, we take responsibility and we behave with integrity.
**E**mpowered - 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.