Ambulance Care Assistant

EMED Group; Redditch; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance

Pension Scheme

Blue Light Card

Uniform provided

Paid holiday entitlement

EAP

Job summary

EMED Group is seeking a dedicated Ambulance Care Assistant to join our Redditch team on a full-time basis. You will transport patients to appointments and between facilities, operating in crews or solo, with a strong emphasis on safety and empathy.

Great benefits, company DBS funding, and career support are offered. Apply if you are physically fit, a calm driver, and a team player familiar with the local area.

Qualifications

• Must be committed to patient care.
• Excellent communication with patients and relatives in emotional situations.
• Calm, considerate driver with no more than six penalty points on licence.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration.
• Physically fit for patient handling and moving.
• Pass Enhanced DBS check (company funded).
• Able to work flexible shifts.
• Familiar with the local area.

Responsibilities

• Transport elderly, sick and vulnerable service users to medical appointments and between healthcare facilities.
• Work in two-person crews or alone, with emphasis on safety and care.
• Keep the ambulance clean, safe and well equipped at all times.
• Assist with lifting, securing and helping patients in and out of the ambulance.
• Hand over patients to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment centres or hospitals.
• Transfer patients between beds, stretchers and chairs as needed.
• Assist service users with challenging behaviour or mental health needs.
• Build rapport and communicate effectively with patients and their relatives.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Calm driving

Teamwork

Physical fitness

DBS check

Flexible shifts

Area familiarity

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for full time Ambulance Care Assistants to join our team based in Redditch.

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 driving licence and to have a good degree of physical fitness.

This is a full time position working a 4 on, 4 off rota (11.5 hour shifts - days). Please only apply if you can commit to this.

What benefits can you expect?

• Life Assurance – providing colleagues and their family financial peace of mind and protection to the value of £5,000.
• 24/7 online/telephone GP Consultation and access to prescriptions.
• 2nd opinion medical support following diagnosis or where a colleague is on a treatment pathway.
• 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.
• Access to legal advice on domestic issues e.g. motoring offences, wills and probate, and personal injury.
• Financial guidance re retirement planning, tax savings and state benefits.
• Long Service Recognition Scheme – recognising colleagues for their continued service after 5 years and at 5-year intervals with an increase in annual leave.
• Values-based Internal Recognition Scheme with financial reward, which will lead to an annual recognition event.
• Refer a Friend recruitment incentive scheme with financial rewards.
• The EMED foundation, to provide support to colleagues and our local communities.
• Paid holiday entitlement.
• Pension Scheme.
• Blue Light Card.
• Uniform provided.
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) to support a range of health and wellbeing requirements.
• 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 six 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

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.

Our Values

C
– we work as one team with a shared purpose to meet the needs of our patients, passengers, colleagues, customers, communities, and the planet.

A
– We listen, learn and adapt to improve the business, each other, and ourselves.

R
– We do what we say we will do, we take responsibility and we behave with integrity.

E
– We are confident and committed to taking responsibility to deliver the highest quality service.

About Us

EMED Group is an established healthcare logistics provider that enables access to health and social care through our four specialist divisions. We are one of the largest health and care partners to the NHS with 4,000 colleagues across over 60 bases UK-wide.

EMED Group is committed to pro-actively improving the wellbeing of our communities by providing access to vital health and social care services across the UK.