# Emergency Care Assistant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Isle of Wight NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/emergency-care-assistant/2be30603-533a-4412-b083-69fd5744448d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/emergency-care-assistant/2be30603-533a-4412-b083-69fd5744448d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Isle of Wight NHS Trust - **Town:** Newport - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata, per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-31T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-22T08:42:34.984Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Isle_Wight/Newport_Isle_Wight/Isle_Wight_NHS_Trust/Additional_Clinical_Services/Additional_Clinical_Services-v8155186 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8155186?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.iow.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Salary NHS Band 3:  £25,760 - £27,476 per annum Hours per Week:  37.5  Contract:  Permanent We are recruiting for Emergency Care Assistants who wish to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”. The role will be based at the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service station which is at St Mary's Hospital, full training will be provided. Applicants will need to have a minimum of a provisional C1 driving licence and have passed both their theory and hazard perception tests before their start date. ### Main duties of the job The job purpose is to support clinically qualified practitioners / Registered Professionals in the provision of high quality and effective pre-hospital clinical care to the community, responding, when appropriate using advanced emergency driving skills, to medical emergencies, inter-hospital transfers, urgent hospital admissions and other allocated operational duties commensurate with the role and responsibilities, supporting the provision of clinical, social and holistic care to patients in a pre-hospital environment, safely and within appropriate level of training and competency. For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the Job Description and Main Responsibilities section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached. In this you will also find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To assist the patient in all activities of daily living, with both direct and indirect supervision as delegated by a registered nurse. - Maintain patient comfort, dignity and privacy at all times. - Prepare patients drinks, serve meals and provide assistance as required. - Assist in the emergency resuscitation of patients, following appropriate training. - Escort patients to other areas and departments as per Trust escort protocol. - Maintain high standards of care in an environment which promotes equality and sensitivity for all individuals. ## Person Specification ### Abilities **Essential** - Be willing to take part in training and development opportunities - Ability to adapt to change within working situation - Previous care experience desirable but not essential - Able to be flexible in relation to service demands ### Aptitudes **Essential** - Able to use initiative to cope in a variety of situations - Good time management skills - Ability to maintain effectiveness under pressure - Able to work as part of a team - Act in ways that support equality and value diversity ### Qualifications **Essential** - Good basic education - i.e. GCSE grades A-C - Basic IT skills. ### Physical Skills **Essential** - Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder e.g. manual handling of patients ### Communication Skills **Essential** - Communicates with a limited range of people on day to day matters ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 584.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10475987) - [rehabilitation of offenders act information (doc, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=248) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.