Ambulance Care Assistant
6 months ago
We have a fantastic opportunity to serve your local community and join the Ambulance Service as part of our Ambulance crews based from Crawley. This role is based at Whitworth Road, Crawley RH11 7SS
An Ambulance Service Care Assistant (ACA) is a hugely rewarding and fulfilling role in the local community. 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. This can be carried out as two-person crews or alone depending upon the patient’s mobility, so it is vital to hold a full UK driving licence and to meet the physical demands of the job.
**What benefits can you expect?**
- Paid holiday entitlement
- £22,684 per annum (based on 38 hrs per week). Any additional overtime is paid at £11.48 per hour.
- This contract is operational between 06.00 and 00.00, Monday to Sunday. Shifts will be on a rota basis including early and late shifts.
- NEST Pension contributions
- Apprenticeship learning opportunities for career development
- Monthly colleague recognition rewards
- Discounted high street benefits
- Access to our employee assistance programmes for wellbeing support
- Uniform provided
**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/hospital’s or to family/friends at their homes.
- Transfer patients from beds to stretchers, chairs to chairs or similar both in and out of hospital and medical/commercial flights.
- Assisting service users with challenging behaviour and/or mental health illnesses
- Ensuring that the ambulance is kept safe, clean and tidy
**To be considered as an ACA, you will need to be**:
- Committed to patient 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 and moving
- Pass an Enhanced DBS check (company funded)
- Be able to work flexible shifts
- Familiar with the local and surrounding area
**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.
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent
**Salary**: £11.48 per hour
Expected hours: 38 - 40 per week
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Application question(s):
- This role covers variable between 06.00 - 00.00, Monday to Sunday. Are you flexible to cover shifts on a rolling rota basis?
- Do you have right to work in the UK without employer sponsorship?
Licence/Certification:
- Manual UK Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
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