Ambulance Care Assistant Bristol Area
Job description
This is a role, working full-time - Based from either our Yate or Keynsham bases in Bristol. If you're passionate about people and feel you want to make a difference at work, then consider a career with us. An Ambulance Care Assistant (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. 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. What benefits can you expect? Paid holiday entitlement NEST Pension contributions Apprenticeship learning opportunities for career development Monthly colleague recognition rewards Discounted high street benefits - Blue Light Card Work-based flexibility Access to our employee assistance programmes for wellbeing support Free uniform 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/hospital’s 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 To be considered as an ACA, you will need to be: Committed to patient care An effective communicator and experience of communicating with others in what can often be emotional circumstances To be a calm, considerate, careful driver, with no more than three penalty points on your license To have a natural flair for team working and collaboration Be physically fit for patient handling and moving Pass an Enhanced DBS check (company funded) Be able to work flexible shifts Familiar with the local and surrounding area Training We are committed to colleague development and will invest in your training which includes First Aid and also provides you great opportunities to develop your career, skills and experience through a variety of training programmes. On joining E-zec, you will have two weeks of paid training that will cover a range of courses like safeguarding, infection control, health and safety, manual handling and many more. Our aim is to equip you with all the skills and training you need to become a fully competent ACA, so if you are looking to grow your career within an organisation who really care, we would love to hear from you! About Us EMED Group has one ambition, to pro-actively improve the wellbeing of those in our communities through health and care services that have logistic complexities. Whether it is transporting patients to vital hospital appointments, supporting patient flow within specialist mental health units, enabling children with acute needs to get to school or facilitating the transfer of vital pathology samples for timely diagnostics. We are able to support in a caring and empathetic manner. We celebrate our colleagues as individuals and offer valuable support and training to help them to become the very best version of themselves. Our colleagues deliver on the promises we make, by living our values everyday. Together, we provide excellence that add value to our patients and our customers – delivered with ‘care’ time after time. E-zec Medical Transport Services
