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We have a fantastic opportunity for a Community Care Assistant to join our team based either from home or our site at **Bedminster Bristol.**

A Community Care Assistant (CTA) 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 elderly, sick and vulnerable service users to and from their place of education, medical appointments and between healthcare facilities. This can be carried out as two-person crews or alone, so it is vital to hold a full UK manual driving licence and to have a good degree of physical fitness.

Location**:North Somerset, Bristol, Nailsea, Evercreech**
Salary**:£11.44 ph**
Contract**:Mon - Fri** / **Permanent - Full and Part Time positions available**

**What benefits can you expect?**
- Paid holiday entitlement
- £11.44 ph
- 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 SEND school children to their place of education and/or supporting patient care transporting 1-man wheelchair and walker patients to and from hospital.
- Building rapport by effectively communicating with Service users and their relatives/friends
- Responsible for lifting, securing, and helping service users in and out of the service vehicles to always ensure their safety.
- Assist with the handing over of service users to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment school, centres/hospital’s or to family/friends at their homes.
- Assisting service users with challenging behaviour and/or mental health illnesses
- Ensuring that the Vehicles is kept safe, clean and tidy.

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

- Committed to supporting local communities and children with special education/transport needs
- 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, Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.44 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Licence/Certification:

- UK Manual Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: CM/DRIVER/NS