Ambulance Technician (ECA)

EMED Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Life Assurance £5,000

24/7 GP access

Job summary

EMED Group's STRS transport team seeks an Ambulance Technician (ECA) to join the London-based retrieval service. You will work within a mobile intensive-care environment, supporting urgent journeys for critically ill children and their families, alongside a multidisciplinary clinical team.

The role requires FREC4, CERAD/Blue Light driving, and a C1 licence, with two years’ blue-light driving experience. Expect 42-hour weeks with 12-hour shifts, across days and nights.

Qualifications

• FREC4 and CERAD blue light qualifications are essential.
• C1 driving licence and enhanced DBS clearance are required.
• Two years’ blue-light emergency driving experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist in retrieval and safe transfer of critically ill children.
• Drive under emergency-response conditions when authorised.
• Prepare and check ambulance and clinical equipment.
• Support patient preparation, securing and loading with clinical team guidance.
• Maintain accurate records and participate in continuous service improvement.

Skills

Compassionate communication

Team collaboration

Resilience under stress

Safety-first mindset

Education

FREC4 (First Response Emergency Care Level 4)

CERAD / Blue Light Driving qualification

C1 driving licence

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Ambulance Technician (ECA) to join our team based in South Thames Retrieval Service at Evalina London Children’s Hospital, SE1 7EH.

Join EMED Group's dedicated STRS transport team and help specialist clinicians retrieve and safely transfer critically ill children. You will work as part of a close multidisciplinary team, maintaining a mobile intensive-care environment and supporting children and families during urgent, highly sensitive journeys.

A FREC4 (First Response Emergency Care Level 4), Blue Light Driving qualification (e.g. CERAD) with a minimum of 2 years’ experience and a C1 driving licence are required for this position.

What benefits can you expect?

• Hourly Rate – £19.31.
• Shifts Pattern – Average 42 hours per week; 12-hour shifts; 4-on-4-off pattern, Day, and night shifts available across Monday to Sunday.
• Life Assurance – providing colleagues and their family financial peace of mind and protection to the value of £5,000.
• Company sick pay covering full salary for 20 days after 2 years’ service.
• 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.
• Hospital cash plan benefits with sickness protection scheme.
• 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.
• 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

• Work alongside the STRS Retrieval Lead and Retrieval Nurse to keep two specialist retrieval teams ready 24 hours a day.
• Prepare and check the ambulance, clinical equipment, retrieval kits, trolley, Babypod, monitor, ventilator, pumps, and medical gases.
• Drive safely under emergency-response conditions when clinically authorised, applying road-risk and fatigue controls.
• Support patient preparation, safe securing and loading under the direction of the clinical team.
• Assist with CPR, equipment preparation and other tasks within your competence when directed by the Retrieval Lead.
• Provide calm, compassionate, and trauma-informed support to parents and carers.
• Complete vehicle, equipment, infection-prevention, and readiness checks and promptly elevate defects or shortages.
• Maintain accurate electronic records and communicate operational updates to STRS and EMED control colleagues.
• Participate in simulation, reflective debriefs, incident learning and continuous service improvement.
• Support aeromedical tasking and flight-stretcher preparation when required.

To be considered as an ECA, you will need to be:

• A full UK manual driving licence with C1 entitlement.
• At least two years' blue-light emergency-driving experience.
• FREC 4 and CERAD, or the ability to complete and pass the required training before independent deployment.
• The ability to pass an enhanced DBS check and occupational-health assessment.
• Physical capability for patient handling, equipment movement, and prolonged emergency-response duties.
• Clear, compassionate communication and the resilience to support critically ill children and distressed families.
• A reliable, safety-focused, and collaborative approach to working within a specialist clinical team.
• An effective communicator and experience of communicating with others in what can often be emotional circumstances.
• Pass an Enhanced DBS check (company funded).
• Lift and carry patients e.g. up and down stairs in and out of their homes, to and from the ambulance and load patients in and out of the ambulance using stretchers or other lifting equipment.
• Transfer patients from beds to stretchers, chairs to chairs or similar both in and out of hospital.

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.