Ambulance Care Assistant

We have a fantastic opportunity for Ambulance Care Assistants to join our team based in Leicester.

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.

What benefits can you expect?

· Paid holiday entitlement

· £11.44 per hour

· 37.5 hours per week

· Rolling Roster – working 4 days per week covering Monday to Sunday. The contract is operational between 05.00 and 00.00 so there will be some early starts and late finishes.

· NEST Pension contributions

· Apprenticeship learning opportunities for career development

· Monthly colleague recognition rewards

· Discounted high street benefits – Blue Light Card

· Access to our employee assistance programmes for wellbeing support

· Uniform provided

Other duties include:

· Transporting elderly, sick and vulnerable service users to and from their medical appointments and between healthcare facilities.

· 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/hospital’s 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

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

· Hold a full UK driving licence with less than 6 penalty points

· Committed to patient care

· An effective communicator and experience of communicating with others in what can often be emotional circumstances

· To be a calm, considerate, careful driver

· To have a natural flair for team working and collaboration

· Be physically fit for patient handling and moving

· Pass an Enhanced DBS check (company funded)

· 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. Your HMRC record, available to download from the Government Gateway may help you in preparing this information when required.

About Us

The exciting merger of ERS Medical and E-Zec Medical has enabled us to rebrand, therefore as a combined business we are now known as EMED Group. We are the largest Patient Transport and Care Partner to the NHS with more than 2,500 colleagues across 50 depots.

EMED Group are committed to providing equal opportunities and we endeavour to provide an inclusive and safe working culture for all.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £11.44 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 37.5 per week

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount

Application question(s):

• This role is on a rolling rota basis including early and late shift work across Monday to Sunday. Are you able to work this rota pattern?
• Do you have right to work in the UK without employer sponsorship? We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position.

Licence/Certification:

• manual UK driving licence with less than 6 penalty points (required)

Work Location: In person