Ambulance Care Assistant

The Trust is looking to recruit staff who are committed and flexible to work as Ambulance Care Assistants for the Patient Transport Service, providing high quality care and support to patients being transported for non-emergency appointments.

The successful candidates will be responsible for safely transporting patients to and from treatment centres, ensuring that they are supported and cared for appropriately during their journey and that any patients feeling unwell are provided with appropriate assistance.

The vacancies for this recruitment will be based in the North West includes the stations on the sector preference form attached.

If your application is shortlisted, you will be asked to complete an online psychometric assessment. If your psychometric assessment reaches the required benchmark you will progress to the next stage of assessments

You will hold a valid EU driving licence with no more than 3 endorsement points (in exceptional circumstances a maximum of 6 points may be considered).

Successful applicants should be available to attend an interview and driving assessment. Should you be successful for this role, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks ahead of a post-recruitment training course which will commence in July, August and October for 3 weeks in the North West area.

As a Patient Transport Care Assistant, you will provide the effective treatment of patients, providing appropriate and necessary assistance for patients to access vehicles. This may include supporting unsteady patients or the manoeuvring of wheelchairs around hazards or in constricted environments.

In all cases you must be able to support patients with empathy, care and dignity, ensuring that their journey is safe and comfortable and that any required support and care is offered. You will need to select and apply appropriate skills and equipment safely and within appropriate level of training, competency and scope of practice.

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.

Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.

Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.

We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Before submitting your application for the role of Ambulance Care Assistant please ensure you have read through the attached job description and person specification.