HDU Ambulance Care Assistant - Blue Light Driver; Bank

Responsibilities

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.

Other duties include:

• 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/hospitals 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

Available shift patterns: 07:00-19:00, 10:00-22:00, 19:00-07:00.

• FREC3 (First Response Emergency Care Level
  3) qualified
• Blue Light Driving qualified (e.g., CERAD)
• Full UK driving licence (C1 preferred but not essential)
• Committed to patient care
• Effective communicator, experienced in emotional circumstances
• Calm, considerate, careful driver, with no more than six penalty points on licence
• Natural flair for team working and collaboration
• Physically fit for patient handling and moving
• Pass Enhanced DBS check (company funded)
• Familiar with local and surrounding area

EMED Group is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, eliminating unlawful discrimination and providing an inclusive and safe working culture for all. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.