Are you looking for a meaningful way to support your community in Crewe? We are seeking empathetic, reliable, and patient-focused individuals to join our team as Ambulance Care Assistants on an adhoc basis.
This role focuses on Non-Emergency Patient Transport. You will be the friendly face that helps vulnerable patients.
Key Responsibilities
Care & Support: Assist patients with mobility challenges, using specialist equipment such as tail lifts, wheelchairs, and stretchers.
Safety First: Conduct daily vehicle safety checks and ensure the interior is kept to high clinical cleanliness standards (IPC protocols).
Communication: Maintain clear contact with the control room and hospital staff regarding arrival times and patient status.
Empathy: Offer a reassuring presence, ensuring every patient feels respected and cared for during their journey.
What Were Looking For
Driving License: A full UK manual driving license (usually held for at least 2 years). Note: Some vehicles may require a C1 category, but this is not always essential.
People Skills: A genuine desire to help people and the ability to remain calm under pressure.
Flexibility: As this is an adhoc role, you should be comfortable with a varying schedule. Perfect for those looking to supplement other income or balance personal commitments.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Safe Patient Transfer: Transporting non-emergency patients to and from hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, ensuring they are comfortable and secure throughout the journey.
Mobility Assistance: Using specialist equipment including tail lifts, carry chairs, and stretchers to assist patients with limited mobility or those who are wheelchair-bound.
Clinical Observations: Monitoring the patients well-being during transit and reporting any changes in their condition to medical staff upon arrival.
Vehicle Maintenance: Performing daily pre-shift checks on oil, water, and tires, and ensuring the vehicle is stocked with necessary medical consumables.
Infection Control: Adhering to strict hygiene standards by deep-cleaning the ambulance interior and equipment between patient transfers to prevent cross-contamination.
Accurate Record Keeping: Completing journey logs, patient care records, and incident reports accurately using both digital tablets and paper forms.
About us
Why Join Us
Ultimate Flexibility: Choose shifts that fit your lifestyle no fixed-hour pressure.
Meaningful Work: Every shift you take directly impacts a patients recovery and well being.
Job responsibilities
Role Purpose
To provide professional, safe, and compassionate non-emergency transportation for patients across the Crewe area. You will ensure that individuals with varying mobility needs reach their medical appointments, treatments, or home discharges comfortably and on time.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Patient Care: Provide a high standard of care and dignity to patients, many of whom may be elderly, disabled, or vulnerable.
Safe Mobility: Safely operate specialist manual handling equipment, including wheelchair clamps, tail lifts, and carry chairs, to assist patients in and out of the vehicle.
Driving Excellence: Drive a modified ambulance vehicle safely and efficiently, navigating Crewe and surrounding Cheshire routes while adhering to all road safety laws.
Daily Maintenance: Conduct thorough vehicle "walk-around" checks at the start of each shift (fuel, fluids, tires) and report any mechanical issues.
Infection Control: Maintain a sterile environment by cleaning the vehicle interior and sanitising equipment between every patient transfer.
Communication: Liaison with the control room via radio or MDT (Mobile Data Terminal) to receive shift details and provide real-time updates on patient status.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualifications
* Qualsafe Level 4 Certificate in FREC (Current/In-date).
* Full UK Manual Driving License (held 2+ years, max 36 points).
* Enhanced DBS (Adult & Child Workforce).
Experience
* Clinical Practice: Evidence of completing the required 118 hours of CPD/contextualised practice for FREC 4.
* Manual Handling: Experience using carry chairs, stretchers, and active loading systems.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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