Ambulance Care Assistant

2 months ago


Plymouth, United Kingdom First Care Ambulance Limited Full time

Ambulance Care Assistant

£22,000-£26,000

40hrs per week

The role will require you to transport low dependency patients to and from treatment centres in a comfortable, caring, compassionate, empathetic and reassuring, timely manner to defined standards based on the principles of CQC standard domains - Caring, Responsive, Effective, Well Led and Safe - C.R.E.W.S.

A friendly smile and encouraging approach will make a real difference to the patients that you help, giving them a much-needed boost before or after their appointment. Working as an Ambulance Care Assistant is highly rewarding, allowing you to make a difference to the experience of patients living with illnesses.

Key elements of the role
- Maintain high standards of patient Care demonstrated by maintaining patient dignity, respect and privacy, communicating effectively delivering a service in an empathetic manner
- Support the delivery of a Responsive service delivery to meet individual needs of patients and continual improvement of service delivery, providing the necessary level of flexibility, working beyond shift finish times to complete duties
- Effective service by working effectively as a team to ensure patient centred care and service
- Support the management team to ensure well led service by reporting concerns, communicating with line managers
- Provide Safe services by the safe use of equipment and vehicles, safe comfortable driving and maintenance of infection control standards
- Use and care of equipment
- Reliable and on-time
- Timeliness of reporting completion or amendments to planned journeys
- Careful and considerate drivers.
- Understanding of patients' abilities (conditions/ limitations)
- Good people skills with a polite and friendly manner
- You will be required to move patients
- A good knowledge of the local area
- A full driving licence
- An enhanced disclosure check is required (DBS) cost will be covered by the business
- Able to provide a minimum of 2 references covering a 5 year period before commencing work

In return for your time & hard work
- Staged increases in Annual Leave following lengths of service (explained further at interview)
- Increase in Leave incentive reward for mínimal absence (explained further at interview)
- Training & development
- Access to receive an industry card which enables access to numerous discounts



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