# Ambulance Driver (FTC)

**Company**: The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are currently looking for an Ambulance Driver to join our St Johns Hospice Palliative Ambulance crew. The post holder will work effectively and efficiently within a small team of Ambulance Drivers providing the dedicated St Johns Hospice Palliative Ambulance service, ensuring high standards of safety and quality of care for patients and carers accompanying patients on transport and en-route.

The Ambulance Driver will be responsible for:

- Taking responsibility on a daily basis for being fully informed of the requirements of the ambulance crew regarding the transport and transfers of patients

- Being available throughout the day to respond promptly to both planned and unplanned patient transport and transfer requests

- Contacting patients or carers to inform them of pick up times and any potential delays

- Ensuring clear, proper, prompt and safe communication with the Hospice Day Care Unit Team

- Liaising closely with the hospice clinical team in the event of any significant changes in the patient's condition or changes to plans for the transfer of a patient

- Understanding the requirements in relation to plans for managing patients who deteriorate in transit

- Ensuring that a log of all transfers and any notable events are clearly and appropriately communicated and documented

- Taking responsibility for the maintenance, checking and replacement of equipment, supplies and disposable items in the ambulance

- Reporting facts related to incidents and accidents while on duty

The ideal candidate will have:

- Clean Driving Licence Class 1

- Basic First Aid (desirable)

- Experience in patient or vulnerable adult transport

- Knowledge in the use of transport and communication aids

- Knowledge of the workings and basic maintenance of vehicles used to deliver service

- Experience in the use of hard copy and/or database booking and recording systems and structures (desirable)

- Experience of working with palliative care patients

- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

- Understanding of scheduling and organisational structures and tools

- Ability to work without direct supervision

- Flexibility to work additional hours as necessary

This 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Clean Driving Licence Class 1
- Basic First Aid
- Patient transport experience
- Communication skills
- Organisational skills

### Nice to have
- Experience in palliative care
- Database booking and recording systems experience

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