Urgent Care Driver

To primarily transport clinicians to the homes of patients in order to provide medical assistance. The post holder will also be responsible for the maintenance of the vehicle during each shift. At all times drivers must carry out duties in a safe and legal manner ensuring that all vehicles are maintained and driven within current driving regulations and codes, principally the Road Traffic Act and Highway Code.

• Ensuring the car has adequate fuel for the shift. When necessary, re-fuelling the car using the company fuel card.
• Responsibility for safely loading and unloading the appropriate medical equipment and supplies in the vehicle that may be required by the mobile clinician and driver, whilst adhering to all manual handling guidelines.
• Completing the drivers check list at the start of each shift ensuring all necessary equipment/supplies are available and functional in the car.
• Maintaining the cleanliness and general upkeep of the vehicles and report any faults immediately to the Shift Manager and completing the fault notification sheet.

To drive the clinician to patients’ homes / place of residence safely and within the current road and traffic act regulations noting that this is not an emergency service and speed limits and laws in accordance with the Highway Code must be followed at all times. Responsibilities include:

• Accurately recording all call details of visits, returning all Driver Log sheets to base at end of shift.
• Driving deliveries to other destinations at the request of the Shift Manager. This may include delivering supplies, prescriptions, medication, etc between sites.

We run an exciting range of Primary Care Services including the SevernSide Urgent Care Service, GP Practices, and the Homeless Health Service. This enable BrisDoc to offer excellent healthcare 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to over 1 million patients across Bristol, North Somerset & South Glos.
We are a ‘Social Enterprise’ and an ‘Employee-Owned Business’ - this means the decisions we make, are for the good of our patients, workforce, and wider community. This involves prioritising the health of our patients, protecting our environment, focusing on equality, diversity, and inclusion, looking after the health & wellbeing of our team, and improving the social and economic status of our population.
We are proud to be an organisation that ‘gives back’. Our BrisDoc ‘Community Fund’ is a staff-led team which works closely with health-based charitable causes, both local and international, to invest time and money to improve lives in disadvantaged communities.
By joining BrisDoc, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary organisation that prides itself on being a fantastic place to work; somewhere that you will feel valued, supported, developed and part of a family. We strive to make sure every member of the team feels proud of the work they do and the services that we offer.
We look forward to welcoming you to the team

• Ensuring the car has adequate fuel for the shift. When necessary, re-fuelling the car using the company fuel card.
• Responsibility for safely loading and unloading the appropriate medical equipment and supplies in the vehicle that may be required by the mobile clinician and driver, whilst adhering to all manual handling guidelines.
• Completing the drivers check list at the start of each shift ensuring all necessary equipment/supplies are available and functional in the car.
• Maintaining the cleanliness and general upkeep of the vehicles and report any faults immediately to the Shift Manager and completing the fault notification sheet.

To drive the clinician to patients’ homes / place of residence safely and within the current road and traffic act regulations noting that this is not an emergency service and speed limits and laws in accordance with the Highway Code must be followed at all times. Responsibilities include:

• Accurately recording all call details of visits, returning all Driver Log sheets to base at end of shift.
• Driving deliveries to other destinations at the request of the Shift Manager. This may include delivering supplies, prescriptions, medication, etc between sites.