Bristol Ambulance (Part of EMED Group) have a fantastic opportunity for dedicated Retrieval Care Assistant to join our team based in Aztec West, Bristol.
We are seeking a qualified drivers to join our Paediatric Retrieval Team. The Retrieval team operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and travel across the South West and Wales regions with Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care teams to stabilise and retrieve children and babies to specialist care units. The role entails long drives as an emergency response and assisting the intensive care teams on access and egress from hospital intensive care units
You must have a positive can do attitude and conscientious about ensuring vehicles and equipment are maintained and thoroughly checked. This role would suit an emergency care assistants looking to obtain experience in an intensive care setting or may suit an experienced ECA who was previously frontline and now wanting a slightly slower pace of life!
This role follows a unique 4 on, 4 off shift pattern (12 hour shifts, days & nights).
To be eligible, you must hold a C1 driving licence and blue light qualification.
What benefits can you expect?
Role Responsibilities
Do you have what it takes?
If you’re calm under pressure, compassionate, and committed to excellence, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and make a real difference in people’s lives. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and we endeavour to provide an inclusive and safe working culture for all.
EMED Group is an established healthcare logistics provider that enables access to health and social care through our four specialist divisions. We are one of the largest health and care partners to the NHS with 4,000 colleagues across over 60 bases UK-wide.
EMED Group is committed to pro-actively improving the wellbeing of our communities by providing access to vital health and social care services across the UK.
EMED Group is a national healthcare and specialist transport provider with one clear ambition: to proactively improve the well-being of our communities by delivering safe, reliable and compassionate health and care services.
Every day, our teams support people at some of the most important moments in their lives - whether that’s getting patients to vital outpatient appointments, helping ease flow in busy hospitals, supporting individuals in specialist mental health settings, enabling children with acute needs to get to school or transporting time-critical pathology to keep diagnostics moving.
We do all of this with care, empathy and a deep sense of responsibility to the people and communities we serve.
To ensure we deliver the highest-quality services, EMED operates through four dedicated divisions, each supported by our central Group functions:
• Patient Care – non-emergency patient transport services
• Safe Care – mental health and secure transport
• Community Care – local authority and community-based support
• Courier Services – pathology transport and in-home diagnostic support
We’re proud of the work our colleagues do every day and remain focused on delivering care that is safe, consistent and truly human.
