Ambulance Person - Non Emergency Transport ServiceWe are recruiting personnel to join our Non-Emergency Transport service (NETS).
You will work closely with colleagues to ensure that patient journeys are planned and delivered in the most effective and efficient way.
You will provide assistance to others when problems or delays occur; by putting the patient first and ensuring that they arrive at their destination in a safe and timely fashion.
In your application and interview, you will need to demonstrate the ability to empathise with patients and provide reassurance to those who need transport.
Where necessary, you will provide basic medical assistance in line with training provided by the London Ambulance Service.
Main duties of the jobThe Non-Emergency Transport Service (NETS) is the London Ambulance Service's transport service which deals with non-immediate life-threatening, non-emergency calls.
This service was commissioned to transport lower acuity patients to hospital, who do not appear to require any clinical intervention en-route and where transport to a definitive place of care is the sole requirement.
This reduces the requirement for this type of call for a paramedic resource and enables them to respond to higher acuity calls.
The primary purpose of these vehicles is to provide transport.
NETS staff do possess and have the ability to call on other LAS health professionals should the need arise.
NETS crews are currently not trained to drive on blue lights and therefore cannot provide emergency transport.
They will complete all journeys under normal driving conditions.
NETS currently operate between 7am and midnight, seven days a week.
As an Ambulance Person, you will be responsible for transporting non-emergency patients to various health care facilities.
Full time, working hours are 37.5 hours per week.
About usThe London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) is the largest free ambulance service in the world.
We care for more than one-and-a-half million patients every year and are at the frontline of the NHS in the capital, covering the whole area within the M25.
We will provide you with a 5-week training course which will include basic ambulance and first aid skills, basic life support, patient assessment, manual handling, lifting, and driving skills.
You will receive a basic salary of £24,071 plus an additional High Cost Allowance supplement (HCAS).
The HCAS will be dependent on where your main base is located (£4,551 per annum for outer London or £5,414 per annum for inner London).
Job responsibilitiesYou will need to hold a manual UK driving license with Provisional Full C1 status (allows people to drive vans up to 7.5 tonnes), no more than 3 points, and have at least 1 year of driving experience in a category B vehicle.
You will be required to work a seven-day rotating shift pattern, covering the hours of 7 am to midnight initially, although with a view for this to potentially extend 24/7.
We operate from six locations across London, and you will be based at one of these either at Becontree, Bermondsey, Orpington, New Malden, Ruislip, or Camden.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Ambulance Service and will allow you to develop the basic ambulance core skills required for further career progression and development within the Service.
Please see the attached job description for further duties & responsibilities.
Please note within one week of application you will be asked to provide a Driver's Licence Summary Statement; please look out for this in your inbox.
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Person SpecificationQualificationsFull British driving licence no more than three penalty pointsGood general level of educationExperienceEffective social skills gained from dealing with the publicAt least 1 year of driving experienceDriving experience in LondonDealing with the elderly or infirm in a voluntary or paid capacityKnowledgeGood interpersonal skillsAbility to work in a teamRelate to people from different culturesAbility to plan efficient and economical routesGood verbal and written communication skills (must be able to complete journey documentation paperwork accurately and legibly)Ability to keep to pre-arranged scheduleFamiliarity with driving in and around LondonPersonal AbilitiesAdhere to the Trust values and behavioursAbility to meet the requirements of the DVLA group 2 medical assessmentAbility to pass a lifting assessment with a mannequin of 75kg by the end of trainingGood eyesightDemonstration of an empathetic approachEvidence of reliabilityProven interest in care workDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£28,622 to £30,225 a year per annum inc HCAS.
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