We have a fantastic opportunity for full time Ambulance Care Assistants to join our team based in Staffordshire. This is a full time (38 hrs per week) permanent role working 4 shifts a week (various days and shift times to include weekends). Please only apply if you can work these hours.
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 role requires you to work on a rota basis, with 4 × 11-hour shifts per week (various days to include weekends). Operational hours are between 5am and midnight; you may be required to work any shift within these hours.
Benefits
* £12.71 per hour
* 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
* 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/hospitals 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.
Qualifications & Requirements
* Committed to patient care.
* An effective communicator with experience of communicating with others in often emotional circumstances.
* A calm, considerate, careful driver with no more than three penalty points on the licence (you must hold a valid UK (Manual) driving licence with no more than 6 penalty points).
* Natural flair for team working and collaboration.
* Physically fit for patient handling and moving.
* Pass an Enhanced DBS check.
* 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.
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