Ambulance Care Assistant - Mental Health

Due to continued expansion we have a fantastic opportunity for an Ambulance Care Assistant (Secure Mental Health) to join our amazing team based in Burgess Hill, Sussex.

We are looking for enthusiastic, care focused individuals, to join our Safe Care Division (Secure Mental Health), if you're passionate about people and feel you want to make a difference then consider a career with us. Preferably, you will have experience in a care, security, prison or public service background.

Your main responsibility will be supporting the police and other professionals with transporting service users to and from healthcare facilities. This can be carried out alone or as a two- or three-person team, so it is vital to hold a full UK driving licence. Full training will be provided for this rewarding role.

This is a full time role, working either 8 hour shifts Monday to Friday or 10 hour shifts on a 4 on 4 off basis (including weekends) on a rota basis, with shifts that cover 24 hours per day. (Please only apply if you can commit to these hours)

• £13.06 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).

• Working as part of a team to support the service user on board.
• Taking responsibility for ensuring the vehicle is safely and responsibly driven.
• Assisting service users with challenging behaviour and/or mental health illnesses.
• Supporting challenging service users, who may need physical intervention.
• Working alongside the police and other professionals to transport vulnerable service users between a variety of locations including hospitals, homes and prisons to medical/care settings including A&E, outpatients and hospital wards.
• Liaising with hospital staff and the police on the safe conveyance of the service user to and from places of safety.
• Responsible for lifting, securing, and helping service users in and out of the ambulance.
• Handing over of service users to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment centres/hospitals.
• Transfer service users from beds to stretchers, chairs to chairs or similar both in and out of hospital and medical/commercial flights.
• Ensuring that the ambulance is kept safe, clean, and tidy.

• Full manual UK driving licence.
• Experience in a care, security, prison or public service background.
• Committed to patient care and the ability to build a rapport with patients.
• An effective communicator and experience of communicating with others in what can often be emotional and difficult circumstances.
• To be a calm, considerate, careful driver, with no more than six penalty points on your licence.
• To have a natural flair for teamwork and collaboration.
• Be physically fit for patient handling, moving and occasionally, patient restraint when required.
• Able to problem solve and identify key changes in patients’ behaviour whilst working demanding situations.

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