This Ambulance Care Assistant post with South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is a patient transport role carrying people to and from medical appointments. The work centres on driving and lifting patients safely, and giving reassurance to people living with dementia or life-limiting illness. Shifts run from 05:30 to midnight on a full-time 37.5-hour pattern, and the role can lead on into frontline, team leader or corporate posts. Physical fitness is essential, and visa sponsorship is not available.
What the job involves
- Take patients to and from medical appointments, treating them with dignity
- Lift, move and help patients into vehicles using wheelchairs, stretchers and carry chairs
- Drive a long wheel-base manual vehicle safely, complying with road traffic law
- Plan journeys around appointment times and routes
- Carry out daily vehicle checks and record any defects
- Give ambulance nursing within training, including oxygen under clinical guidelines
- Risk assess how to move each patient, taking account of medical and cultural needs
- Communicate with patients, colleagues and health services
- Complete patient records, incident reports and other documentation accurately and on time
- Cover shifts as directed through the PTS rota
- Take part in major incident response and other operational duties as directed
- Complete required training and work to the Ambulance Competency Framework and appraisal scheme
What’s required
Qualifications
- GCSE grade C/4 or above in Maths or English, or equivalent, or demonstrable experience
Experience
- Previous customer service experience
Skills & knowledge
- Communicate effectively aurally, orally and in writing
- Use communication and computerised systems such as Terrafix and mobile phones
Checks & eligibility
- Full manual UK driving licence with no more than 3 speeding points and no drink or drug offences
- Right to work in the UK without needing visa sponsorship
Other
- Physically fit to lift and move patients
- Pass a pre-employment fitness assessment
- Able to complete an interview
- Show how you meet the person specification in your application
Nice to have
- Evidence of self-development, CPD or a portfolio
- Previous patient care experience
- Previous shift working experience
- Previous NHS experience
- Basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, such as a biology qualification
- Geographical knowledge of the Eastleigh, Basingstoke and Portsmouth operational area
- Demonstrable experience as an ambulance care assistant
- Previous professional manual handling experience
What’s offered
- Full training and access to courses
- Up to 33 days holiday plus bank holidays, pro rata
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Career development within the trust and wider NHS
- Occupational health and wellbeing support
- NHS discounts in over 200 stores
- Membership of the staff networking group
- Access to trade union representation through Unison, Unite, GMB and RCN
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