South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Ambulance Care Assistant - Hampshire
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Do you have the compassion to reassure a patient living with dementia on their way to a hospital appointment?
Can you stay calm and focused when traffic threatens to delay your next collection?
Are you resilient enough to support someone coping with a life-limiting illness?
If so, you could be the perfect fit for our team.
Our Ambulance Care Assistants play a vital role in patient care, ensuring every journey is safe, comfortable, and dignified. You’ll provide support and reassurance to patients travelling to and from hospital appointments, treating everyone with kindness and empathy.
This Is a Hands-on Role That Involves
- Driving patients safely across Hampshire
- Assisting with mobility, including lifting and helping patients into vehicles
- Delivering exceptional care and customer service
You don’t need a medical background—just a genuine desire to help people, excellent communication skills, and patience. Physical fitness is essential, as lifting and moving patients is a key part of the role.
If you’re ready for a rewarding challenge and want to make a real difference every day, apply now and join our trusted team.
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The Role
- Taking patients to and from their medical appointments and treating them with dignity.
- Moving and lifting patients who need help.
- Driving a long wheel-base vehicle with manual transmission.
- Shift Work: You’ll work a variety of shifts from 0530-midnight, both on your own and with a colleague.
- Full-time role is 37.5 hours a week.
The Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) role is a gateway into the Ambulance Service. People who join as an ACA can go on to be Team Leaders or Managers within their area or move to work in the frontline teams or one of the many supports and corporate teams.
Benefits We Offer
- Full training and a range of courses which you can book locally.
- Holiday entitlement of 27 days, rising to 29 days after 5 years’ service and 33 days after 10 years’ service, plus an additional 8 days bank holiday (pro rata for part time).
- Automatic enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
- Access to continual professional development within SCAS and the wider NHS.
- Occupational Health support and direct access to our Employee Assistance Programme as well as our own Health and Wellbeing Team.
- NHS Discounts in over 200 + stores saving money on holidays, days out, car insurance, restaurants, clothing, and much more.
- Ability to join our staff networking groups (as a member, ally, or just for interest).
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Corporate Induction
It’s really important for us to ensure you have the best onboarding experience which allows you to feel a sense of belonging from the start. To help with this, we will book your Corporate Induction as soon as we possibly can (depending on availability).
All new starters need to attend our *Corporate Induction in person, this is held over one and a half days from our educational centres based in: Newbury (Berkshire), Bicester (Oxfordshire), or Whiteley (Hampshire). More specific details will be sent to you once your start date has been confirmed.
Please note – depending on your role, additional training may be required following on from your corporate induction.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: PTS Recruitment
- Job title: PTS Recruitment
- Email address: PTS.recruitment@scas.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01869 365000
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