We have a fantastic opportunity for full‑time Ambulance Care Assistants to join our team based in Hereford.
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.
Shift patterns available
* 4 on 4 off rotating 07:00-18:30/09:30-21:00
* Mon‑Fri 07:00-15:00
* Two‑Week Rolling Rota – 1st week: 08:00-18:00 Mon‑Thurs, 2nd week: 10:00-20:00 Tues‑Fri
Please only apply if you can commit to one or more of these shift patterns.
Benefits
* £12.71 per hour
* Life Assurance – 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 – protection for illness and recuperation, including dental, optical, chiropody
* Access to mental health consultations
* Access to physiotherapy consultations
* Access to legal advice on domestic issues such as motoring offences, wills and probate, and personal injury
* Financial guidance on retirement planning, tax savings and state benefits
* Long Service Recognition Scheme – recognising colleagues after 5 years and at 5‑year intervals with an increase in annual leave
* Values‑based Internal Recognition Scheme with financial reward, leading to an annual recognition event
* Refer a Friend recruitment incentive scheme with financial rewards
* The EMED foundation, to provide support to colleagues and local communities
* Paid holiday entitlement
* Pension Scheme
* Blue Light Card
* Uniform provided
* EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) to support 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
* 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
* Assisting the handing over of patients to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment centres/hospitals or to family/friends at home
* 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 and Requirements
* Committed to patient care
* Effective communicator with experience of communicating in emotional circumstances
* Calm, considerate, careful driver, with no more than six penalty points on your licence
* Natural flair for team working and collaboration
* Physically fit for patient handling and moving
* Pass an Enhanced DBS check (company supported)
* Ability to work flexible shifts
* Familiar with the local and surrounding area
* Hold a valid UK (Manual) driving licence with no more than 6 penalty points
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 prepare this information when required.
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