Ambulance Care Assistant

ERS Medical; Bristol; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading patient transport provider in Bristol is seeking an Ambulance Care Assistant. In this role, you will help transport elderly and vulnerable patients to medical appointments, ensuring their comfort and safety. The ideal candidate is committed to patient care, has strong communication skills, and holds a clean driving license. This position offers a full-time permanent contract with numerous benefits including life assurance and mental health support.

Benefits

Life Assurance

24/7 GP Consultation

Access to mental health consultations

Paid holiday entitlement

Pension Scheme

Uniform provided

Qualifications

• Committed to patient care.
• Calm and considerate driver with a clean driving record.
• Ability to communicate effectively in emotional situations.
• Pass Enhanced DBS check.
• Familiarity with local area.

Responsibilities

• Transport elderly and vulnerable service users to medical appointments.
• Assist with patient handling and transfers.
• Build rapport with patients and their families.
• Maintain cleanliness of the ambulance.

Skills

Patient care

Effective communication

Team working

Driving skills

Physical fitness

Job description

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We have a fantastic opportunity for an Ambulance Care Assistant to join our team based in Keynsham.

An Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) 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 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.

What benefits can you expect?

• Full time, permanent contract - 4 out of 7 days a week across Monday - Sunday. (38 hrs per week depending on rota pattern, 5:00am - 00.30am)
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  Life Assurance – providing colleagues and their family financial peace of mind and protection to the value of £5,000.
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  24/7 online/telephone GP Consultation and access to prescriptions.
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  2nd opinion medical support following diagnosis or where a colleague is on a treatment pathway.
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  Cash-plan benefits, providing colleagues the option of protecting themselves in case of illness and recuperation, including dental, optical, chiropody.
• Access to mental health consultations.
• Access to physiotherapy consultations.
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  Access to legal advice on domestic issues e.g. motoring offences, wills and probate, and personal injury.
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  Financial guidance re retirement planning, tax savings and state benefits.
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  Long Service Recognition Scheme – recognising colleagues for their continued service after 5 years and at 5-year intervals with an increase in annual leave.
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  Values-based Internal Recognition Scheme with financial reward, which will lead to an annual recognition event.
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  Refer a Friend recruitment incentive scheme with financial rewards.
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  The EMED foundation, to provide support to colleagues and our local communities.
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  Paid holiday entitlement.
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  Pension Scheme.
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  Blue Light Card.
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  Uniform provided.
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  EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) to support a range of health and wellbeing requirements.
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  Flu vaccination (through an internal campaign in Autumn/Winter).
  

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

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.

Please note that this role will be subject to several regulatory pre-employment checks, and you will be asked to provide details of your full employment history should you be invited to an interview. Your HMRC record, available to download from the Government Gateway may help you in preparing this information when required.

EMED Group are committed to providing services for our patients, service users, clients, and community and is supported by employees with an increasing variety of backgrounds. To do this effectively it is essential that we promote equality and embrace diversity and inclusion and treat all of our employees, patients, service users and clients with dignity and respect.

EMED Group is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination, with our aim being to be truly representative of all sections of society and our clients, and for each employee to feel respected, valued and able to give their best.