Overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for Bank Ambulance Care Assistants to serve your local community and join our team based in Littlehampton and Tangmere areas. This is a 0 hour contract on an 'as and when' basis with shifts available between 06:00 – 23:00, 7 days per week.
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.
Responsibilities
* Transport elderly, sick and vulnerable service users to and from medical appointments and between healthcare facilities. This can be carried out as two-person crews or alone, so a full UK driving licence and a good degree of physical fitness are required.
* Transport and assist service users in end-of-life care with a high level of empathy.
* Build rapport through effective communication with patients and their relatives/friends.
* Lift, secure and help service users in and out of the Ambulance.
* Hand over patients to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment centres/hospitals or to family/friends at home.
* Transfer patients between beds, stretchers, chairs, or similar, both in hospital and during medical flights.
* Assist service users with challenging behaviour or mental health conditions.
* Ensure the ambulance is kept safe, clean and tidy.
What you’ll need
* Commitment to patient care
* Effective communication skills, including in emotional circumstances
* Calm, considerate, and careful driving
* Teamworking and collaboration
* Enhanced DBS check (company funded)
* Familiar with the local area
* Valid UK manual driving licence with less than 6 points
* Physical fitness for patient handling and moving
* Ability to work flexible shifts
Benefits
* Paid holiday entitlement
* £12.21 per hour
* Zero Hours Contract
* Life Assurance (£5,000)
* 24/7 online/telephone GP consultation and access to prescriptions
* Second medical opinion support
* Cash-plan benefits (dental, optical, chiropody)
* Access to mental health and physiotherapy consultations
* Legal advice on domestic issues
* Financial guidance on retirement planning and benefits
* Long Service Recognition and annual leave increases
* Internal recognition schemes with financial rewards
* Refer a Friend incentive
* EMED Foundation support
* Pension scheme
* Blue Light Card
* Uniform provided
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* Flu vaccination campaign
Other duties
* Transporting service users to and from medical appointments and between facilities
* Assist with end-of-life transport with empathy
* Communicate with patients and relatives to build rapport
* Assist with patient handling and moving
* Handover patients to staff or family on arrival
* Maintain safety and cleanliness of the ambulance
Required qualifications and attributes
* Committed to patient care
* Effective communicator, able to handle emotional situations
* Calm, considerate driving
* Teamworking and collaboration
* Enhanced DBS check (company funded)
* Familiar with local area
* Valid UK manual driving licence with less than 6 points
* Physically fit for patient handling
* Able to work flexible shifts
Regulatory pre-employment checks – You will be asked to provide details of your full employment history if invited to interview. Your HMRC record may be helpful in preparing this information.
About Us
The merger of ERS Medical and E-Zec Medical has enabled us to rebrand as EMED Group, the largest Patient Transport and Care Partner to the NHS with more than 2,500 colleagues across 50 depots. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to be truly representative of all sections of society.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
* Public Health
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