Ambulance Care Assistant - Royal Brompton Hospital
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £30,039.00 to £31,088.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £30039.00 - £31088.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW3 6NP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9196-25-1039 |
Summary
Complete all relevant operational documentation and carry out daily routine vehicle checks. Physically manoeuvre and / or lift patients, including the use of supplied carrying aids, in circumstances where patients are unable to manage alone, after undertaking a manual handling risk assessment e.g. up and down stairs and within restricted spaces. Maintain an appropriate level of care for patients, relevant to their condition. This includes recognition of when additional skills or support may be needed. Assist patients in their homes, both prior to and after transportation, ensuring they have their basic needs catered for and their homes are safe. This includes measuring, highlighting and reporting areas of risk in line with Essentias risk assessment procedures. Adhere to Trust policy in respect of the control of confidential information as outlined within the data protection act and the Caldicott principles. Ensure that patients are taken to and collected from the agreed treatment area within the hospital or centre in a timely basis. Maintain the vehicle in a sanitary condition in line with Infection and Prevention Control policies and health & safety and clinical waste management. Provide any clinical assistance to the authorised level of competence in all circumstances that require it. Participate in equipment trials, working parties and highlighting areas of potential personal and organisation service development. Drive a range of vehicles in a manner appropriate to the patients condition and in accordance with Trust approved training criteria.