Ambulance Care Assistant in Farnborough

Overview

Do you want a job that genuinely helps people?

We’re looking for kind, reliable and compassionate people to join our Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) team in Farnborough.

This is a role for someone who wants to make a real difference every day, supporting patients of all ages on their journeys to and from medical facilities.

• Contract
• This is a permanent, full-time role. The following shifts are available:
• 09:00 - 21:00 Monday to Thursday
• 10:00 - 22:00 Tuesday to Friday

Responsibilities

An 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.

• Drive patients to and from medical appointments and between healthcare facilities, either working with a colleague or independently.
• Possess a full UK manual driving licence and maintain a good level of physical fitness for manual handling.
• Assist in transportation of end-of-life patients with empathy at all times.
• Build rapport by effectively communicating with patients and their relatives/friends.
• Be responsible for lifting, securing and helping patients in and out of the ambulance.
• Assist with handing over patients to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment centres/hospitals or to family/friends at their homes.
• Transfer patients between beds, stretchers, chairs, or similar in and out of hospital/medical settings.
• Ensure the ambulance is kept safe, clean and tidy.

You don’t need previous ambulance experience; we provide full training.

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Benefits

• Life Assurance – protection to the value of £5,000 for colleagues and their families.
• Company sick pay covering full salary for 20 days after 2 years’ service.
• 24/7 online/telephone GP consultation and access to prescriptions.
• Second-opinion medical support following diagnosis or when a colleague is on a treatment pathway.
• Hospital cash plan benefits with sickness protection.
• Cash-plan benefits including dental, optical, chiropody.
• Access to mental health consultations.
• Access to physiotherapy consultations.
• Access to legal advice on domestic issues.
• Financial guidance on retirement planning, tax savings and state benefits.
• Long Service Recognition Scheme with additional annual leave after 5 years.
• Values-based Internal Recognition Scheme with financial reward and annual recognition event.
• Refer a Friend recruitment incentive scheme with financial rewards.
• The EMED foundation to provide support to colleagues and our local communities.
• Pension Scheme.
• Blue Light Card.
• Uniform provided.
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).
• Flu vaccination campaigns in Autumn/Winter.

Requirements

• You hold a valid UK manual driving licence (6 points maximum).
• You are committed to patient care.
• You are an effective communicator and empathetic in often emotional circumstances.
• You are physically fit for patient handling and moving.
• You can pass an Enhanced DBS check (company funded).
• You have a natural flair for teamwork and collaboration.

About Us

The EMED Group is the result of the merger of ERS Medical and E-Zec Medical.

We are the largest Patient Transport and Care Partner to the NHS with circa 4,000 colleagues across 60 depots.

We aim to develop patient care transport services that improve health and wellbeing by providing transport that supports patient care, community support, secure mental health and medical courier services.

EMED Group is committed to equality and inclusion and to treating all employees, patients, service users and clients with dignity and respect.

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