Ambulance Care Assistant

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

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance

GP Consultation access

Dental & optical coverage

Mental health support

Pension scheme

Blue Light Card

Uniform provided

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

EMED Group in Shrewsbury seeks a motivated Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) for a full-time role. You will transport elderly, sick and vulnerable patients to appointments and between facilities, working in either two-person crews or solo.

A full UK driving licence and good physical fitness are essential, with shifts across 37.5 or 47.5 hours per week, including nights. Benefits include life assurance, GP access, 24/7 support services, dental/optical coverage, pension, and staff recognition

Qualifications

• Commitment to patient care.
• Experience communicating in potentially emotional situations.
• Calm, careful driver with no more than six penalty points on license.
• Natural flair for teamwork and collaboration.
• Physical fitness for patient handling and moving.
• Enhanced DBS check funded by the company.
• Ability to work flexible shifts.
• Familiar with local and surrounding area.

Responsibilities

• Transport elderly, sick and vulnerable service users to and from medical appointments and between healthcare facilities.
• Work in two-person crews or alone as required.
• Assist with handing over patients to staff on arrival at treatment centres/hospital or to family when at home.
• Transfer patients between beds, stretchers, chairs, or similar.
• Maintain ambulance safety, cleanliness and readiness.

Skills

Driving licence

Communication

Teamwork

Patient care

Physical fitness

Enhanced DBS

Job description

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

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 either 37.5 or 47.5 hours per week across 5 days. The contract is operational 24/7 so you will need to be flexible to work a variety of shift patterns and times including some night shifts. 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

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

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.