Ambulance Care Assistant - Oxfordshire

Can you keep your cool when there's bumper to bumper traffic that might make you late to collect your next patient?

Our Ambulance Care Assistants are highly trained, caring professionals, treating our patients with kindness, empathy, and dignity on their way to and from appointments.

There's a lot of driving, plenty of lifting and helping patients into our vehicles, and always loads of caring.

To be a part of our team and work in a privileged and trusted role with members of the public, you'll need to be a people person, have empathy and patience, with the ability to make good judgment calls. You do not need to have a medical background, just a desire to help.

As lifting is an integral part of the role, looking after yourself, keeping fit and strong should also be a priority for you. We all contribute professionally to the wider team that we operate within here at SCAS, as we all have an important role to play in patient care.

If this sounds like a challenge you'll relish, and you have the resilience to achieve this time and time again throughout your working day, we want to hear from you!,

• 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 0600-midnight, both on your own and with a colleague.


• Full time role is 37.5 hours a week or a Bank agreement with 0 hours.


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 support and corporate teams.

We would like to advise all applicants that from 1st April 2025, SCAS will no longer be managing the Patient Transport Services (PTS) contract in the Thames Valley region. Therefore if you are successful with your application, pass interview and assessment and are offered the job, you will be employed (or engaged on a bank basis) by SCAS up until 31st March 2025. We are expecting this to fall under Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment (TUPE) rights, which means the new employer who will be managing the contract will take over your terms of employment from 1st April 2025. For further information on TUPE please follow this link: What a TUPE transfer is - TUPE: employee rights - Acas

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.

The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex.

We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Golden Handshake Incentive: We will pay a £500 joining incentive that is split into 2 payments. During your first week of training, you will receive £300. At the end of your second month at SCAS you will receive £200.


• Full training and support when you join and ongoing throughout your employment with us.


• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).


• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.


• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.


• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.


• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.