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 Reading. 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.
This is a permanent, full time role, and the following shifts are available -
07:00 - 19:00 4 on 4 off
09:00 - 21:00 Monday to Thursday
10:00 - 22:00 Tuesday to Friday
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.
You’ll drive patients to and from medical appointments and between healthcare facilities, either working with a colleague or independently, so it is vital to hold a full UK manual driving licence and have a good degree of physical fitness for manual handling.
Other duties include:
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Assisting in the transportation of ‘end of life’ patients, 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 patients 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 settings.
- Ensuring that the ambulance is kept safe, clean and tidy
You don’t need previous ambulance experience, we provide full training.
You can view our day in the life video here: Video Portal Explore Insights, Guidance & Information - EMED Group
What benefits can you expect?
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£12.71 per hour
- Life Assurance – providing colleagues and their family financial peace of mind and protection to the value of £5,000.
- Company sick pay covering full salary for 20 days after 2 years’ service.
- 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.
- Hospital cash plan benefits with sickness protection scheme.
- 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.
- 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).
We'd love to hear from you if:
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You hold a valid UK manual driving licence, (6 points maximum)
- You are committed to patient care
- You are an effective communicator and empathetic with others in what can often be 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 team working and collaboration
About Us:
The exciting merger of ERS Medical and E-Zec Medical has enabled us to rebrand, therefore as a combined business we are now known as EMED Group. We are the largest Patient Transport and Care Partner to the NHS with circa 4,000 colleagues across 60 depots. Our ambition is to continue developing patient care transport services that improve the health and wellbeing for people across our local communities by providing transport that supports patient care, community support, secure mental health and medical courier services.
EMED Group are committed to providing services for our patients, service users, clients, and community and is supported by employees with an increasing variety of backgrounds. To do this effectively it is essential that we promote equality and embrace diversity and inclusion and treat all of our employees, patients, service users and clients with dignity and respect.
EMED Group is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination, with our aim being to be truly representative of all sections of society and our clients, and for each employee to feel respected, valued and able to give their best.
EMED Group are committed to providing equal opportunities and we endeavour to provide an inclusive and safe working culture for all.
