Emergency Care Assistant HDU WorkinLeicesterinLeicesterPUBLISHED TUE 17 DEC 2024
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Opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care by providing potentially life-saving assistance in high-stress situations.
Gain hands-on experience working alongside qualified healthcare professionals, enhancing your skills and knowledge in emergency care.
Diverse work environment with exposure to a variety of emergencies, including accidents, medical emergencies, and hospital transfers.
Ability to develop strong teamwork and communication skills while collaborating with other emergency service staff and healthcare providers.
Flexible working hours that can accommodate different schedules, allowing for a healthy work-life balance.
Satisfaction of providing compassionate care and support to patients and their families during critical moments.
Access to continuous professional development opportunities and training in the latest medical and life support techniques.
Central Medical Services is seeking a qualified Emergency Care Assistant for a role primarily focused on High Dependency Transfers in Leicester. The position involves providing continuous patient care, effective monitoring, and treatment in line with the assistant's training. Key responsibilities include driving approved ambulance vehicles under various conditions, conducting vehicle checks, and ensuring that all medical and life support equipment is properly maintained and utilized. The role also requires thorough handover reports to other healthcare professionals, basic scene safety assessments, and collaboration with qualified practitioners to deliver high-quality clinical and personal care during emergencies and routine appointments.
The Emergency Care Assistant will support qualified staff in patient transportation and care, working in tandem with paramedics or EMTs across a range of situations, including emergency incidents. This position demands the ability to communicate effectively with carers and other health professionals, ensuring that all relevant information is accurately shared to provide optimal patient care. The role may involve traveling significant distances and performing assigned operational duties to support the overall delivery of clinical, social, and holistic care.
The Emergency Care Assistant will support qualified staff in patient transportation and care, working in tandem with paramedics or EMTs across a range of situations, including emergency incidents. This position demands the ability to communicate effectively with carers and other health professionals, ensuring that all relevant information is accurately shared to provide optimal patient care. The role may involve traveling significant distances and performing assigned operational duties to support the overall delivery of clinical, social, and holistic care.
Opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care by providing potentially life-saving assistance in high-stress situations.
Gain hands-on experience working alongside qualified healthcare professionals, enhancing your skills and knowledge in emergency care.
Diverse work environment with exposure to a variety of emergencies, including accidents, medical emergencies, and hospital transfers.
Ability to develop strong teamwork and communication skills while collaborating with other emergency service staff and healthcare providers.
Flexible working hours that can accommodate different schedules, allowing for a healthy work-life balance.
Satisfaction of providing compassionate care and support to patients and their families during critical moments.
Access to continuous professional development opportunities and training in the latest medical and life support techniques.
Are you a qualified Emergency Care Assistant?
Then we currently have a fantastic opportunity for you covering High Dependency Transfers in Leicester.
- 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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