Emergency Care AssistantinchippenhaminchippenhamPUBLISHED TUE 17 DEC 2024
Central Medical Servicesr8T4ABDl
Direct Impact on Patient Care, As an Emergency Care Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in providing immediate care and support to patients during critical situations.
Variety of Experiences, The role involves attending a diverse range of emergencies and medical events, ensuring no two days are the same.
Collaboration with Professionals, You will work closely with qualified practitioners and other healthcare professionals, allowing you to learn and grow in a team environment.
Skill Development, The position offers continuous opportunities to maintain and enhance your skills in vehicle operation, medical equipment handling, and emergency response.
Community Contribution, Working in Chippenham provides the opportunity to serve and make a positive difference in the local community.
Job Satisfaction, Being part of a frontline emergency response team can be incredibly rewarding, knowing that you are helping save lives.
Dynamic Work Environment, The role includes a mix of front line response as well as ad-hoc duties, keeping the work engaging and fulfilling.
The Emergency Care Assistant role at Central Medical Services in Chippenham involves providing front-line emergency response and supporting qualified practitioners in delivering high-quality patient care. The position requires monitoring and treatment of patients, ensuring a thorough handover report is provided to other health professionals. Responsibilities include driving various ambulance vehicles under both normal and emergency conditions, conducting vehicle checks, and maintaining proficiency with medical and life support equipment.
Additionally, the role involves assisting with patient care, collaborating with other healthcare and emergency service staff, and collecting relevant information at emergency scenes. The Emergency Care Assistant will respond to various emergencies and support efforts to transport patients safely to hospitals, all while maintaining compliance with safety protocols and effective communication within the healthcare team.
Additionally, the role involves assisting with patient care, collaborating with other healthcare and emergency service staff, and collecting relevant information at emergency scenes. The Emergency Care Assistant will respond to various emergencies and support efforts to transport patients safely to hospitals, all while maintaining compliance with safety protocols and effective communication within the healthcare team.
Direct Impact on Patient Care, As an Emergency Care Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in providing immediate care and support to patients during critical situations.
Variety of Experiences, The role involves attending a diverse range of emergencies and medical events, ensuring no two days are the same.
Collaboration with Professionals, You will work closely with qualified practitioners and other healthcare professionals, allowing you to learn and grow in a team environment.
Skill Development, The position offers continuous opportunities to maintain and enhance your skills in vehicle operation, medical equipment handling, and emergency response.
Community Contribution, Working in Chippenham provides the opportunity to serve and make a positive difference in the local community.
Job Satisfaction, Being part of a frontline emergency response team can be incredibly rewarding, knowing that you are helping save lives.
Dynamic Work Environment, The role includes a mix of front line response as well as ad-hoc duties, keeping the work engaging and fulfilling.
Are you a qualified Emergency Care Assistant?
Then we currently have a fantastic opportunity for you, covering front line response and ad-hoc.
To apply please visit www.jobsincare.com/job/jbns4vNi
- Ensure a continuous duty of care to patients within the level of training and competency of this role, ensuring an appropriate level of monitoring and treatment is maintained and continued.
- Provide a clear handover report when the patient is handed into the care of another health professional, this should record all pertinent patient information.
- Drive all types of approved ambulance vehicles under normal and blue light circumstances, in accordance with the standards of the service and within road traffic law, taking particular care of the vehicle, occupants and other road users
- Carry out general vehicle checks at the start of and during each shift to ensure the readiness of the vehicle.
- Maintain a competent working knowledge of all medical and life support equipment carried on vehicles appropriate to the required skill level and scope of practice
- Maintain competence in assisting a qualified practitioner in the use of appropriate equipment
- Comply with basic scene safety checks and the associated basic risk assessments, working with other healthcare or emergency services staff
- Support qualified practitioners as directed in the provision of high-quality care
- Provide and take relevant information from carers or others at any scene, reporting to qualified practitioner, health care professions, hospital or other relevant agencies as required
About us
This role will respond to emergencies, events, general appointments, alongside a paramedic/EMT, helping them to provide patients with potentially life-saving care and, where needed, getting patients to hospital. The role will be required to attend every kind of accident and emergency, sometimes covering considerable distances.
You will be required to assist a qualified practitioner in the delivery of high quality and effective clinical and personal care and transportation of patients. There will also be a requirement to carry out allocated operational duties commensurate with the role and responsibilities, supporting the provision of clinical social and holistic care to patients.
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