Ambulance Care Assistant

6 months ago


Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom EMED Group Full time

We have fantastic opportunities to join our team based in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk as Ambulance Care Assistants.

An Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) is a tremendously rewarding and fulfilling role. Each day, you’ll have the opportunity to help someone in need, making their lives a little bit easier, while ensuring they have access to medical appointments, and knowing that you make a difference to their day providing you with a real sense of achievement.

We have both full and part time positions available with flexible shift patterns between 05:30-01:00am Monday to Saturday. Shift schedules will be provided two weeks in advance.

**What benefits can you expect?**
- Paid holiday entitlement
- £11.07 per hour, Subject to change in accordance with National Minimum Living Wage
- NEST Pension contributions
- Colleague recognition rewards
- Discounted high street benefits
- Access to our employee assistance programmes for wellbeing support
- Uniform provided

**Duties include**:

- Assisting in the transportation of ‘end of life’ service users, ensuring a high level of empathy, care, and compassion is present at all times
- Building rapport by effectively communicating with patients and their family and friends
- Responsible for lifting, securing and helping service users in and out of the vehicles
- Assist with the hand over patients to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment centres, clinics, wards, care homes, and hospital’s or to family/friends at their homes
- Transfer patients from beds to stretchers, chairs to wheelchairs or wheelchairs to wheelchairs in and out of hospitals, care homes and patient homes
- Ensuring that the ambulance is roadworthy, clean, and presentable

**To be considered as an ACA, you will need to be**:

- Committed to patient care
- An effective communicator and have experience communicating with others in what can oftentimes be emotional situations
- To be a calm, considerate, and 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 areas

**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.

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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