- Paid holiday entitlement
- £10.47 per hour
- NEST Pension contributions
- Apprenticeship learning opportunities for career development.
- Monthly colleague recognition rewards
- Discounted high street benefits Welcome to Blue Light Card
- Access to our employee assistance programmes for wellbeing support.
- Uniform provided.
- Building rapport by effectively communicating with Service users and their relatives/friends
- Responsible for lifting, securing and helping service users in and out of the service vehicles to always ensure their safety.
- Assist with the handing over of service users to appropriate staff on arrival at treatment school, centres/hospital's or to family/friends at their homes.
- Assisting service users with challenging behaviour and/or mental health illnesses
- Ensuring that the Vehicles is kept safe, clean and tidy.
- A calm, considerate, careful driver, with no more than three penalty points on your license
- Successful candidates will be required to pass a DVLA D4 Medical.
- Committed to delivering an exceptional, reliable, service.
- An effective communicator and experience of communicating with others in what can often be emotional circumstances.
- To have a natural flair for team working and collaboration
- Be physically fit for patient handling and moving.
- Pass an Enhanced DBS check (company funded)
- Be able to work flexible shifts.
- Familiar with the local and surrounding area
Driver - Nottingham, United Kingdom - EMED Group
Description
We have a fantastic opportunity for a S.E.N.D (Special Educational Needs and Disability) driver to join our team based in Nottingham.
We are looking for a unique individual who will embrace the positive, life-changing impact you will be making as a professional driver, safe in the knowledge that you are making a real difference to people's lives who need that extra bit of help, which in turn will give you a real sense of achievement.
Your main responsibility will be transporting young people with Special educational needs and disabilities to and from their respective schools every morning, and afternoon.
Throughout the day, you will be transporting elderly, sick and vulnerable service users to and from their place of education, medical appointments and between healthcare facilities. This can be carried out as two-person crews or alone, so it is vital to hold a full UK driving licence and to have a good degree of physical fitness.
As this is a specialist role, an extensive training programme will be given to prepare you for all obstacles which may arise daily during your routines.
Location:Nottingham, NG2
Hours of work: Mon - Fri 07:00 - 17:00 (1 hour break)
What benefits can you expect?
Other duties include:
To be considered as an S.E.N.D Driver, you will need to be:
Please note that this role will be subject to several regulatory pre-employment checks, and you will be asked to provide details of your full employment history should you be invited to an interview. Your HMRC record, available to download from the Government Gateway may help you in preparing this information when required.
Our Values
Collaborative – We work as one team with a shared purpose to meet the needs of our patients, passengers, colleagues, customers, communities, and the planet.
Agile – We listen, learn and adapt to improve the business, each other, and ourselves.
Reliable – We do what we say we will do, we take responsibility and we behave with integrity.
Empowered – We are confident and committed to taking responsibility to deliver the highest quality service.
About Us
The exciting merger of ERS Medical and E-Zec Medical has enabled us to rebrand, therefore as a combined business we are now known as EMED Group. We are the largest Patient Transport and Care Partner to the NHS with more than 2,500 colleagues across 50 depots. Our ambition is to continue developing transport services that improve the health and wellbeing for people across our local communities by providing transport that supports patient care, community support, secure mental health and medical courier services.
EMED Group are committed to providing equal opportunities and we endeavour to provide an inclusive and safe working culture for all.