Critical Care Transport Assistant


Company:	St John Ambulance
Salary:	£13.45
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Cambridge, CB25 9TN
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Temporary
Posting date:	28 Jul 2026
Closing date:	25 Aug 2026

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Summary

Casual Critical Care Transport Assistant

Casual Worker – Flexible Shifts

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves on being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture where you can develop your skills, work flexibly, and be recognised for the important contribution you make.

As a Casual Critical Care Transport Assistant, you'll benefit from:

Competitive hourly rate of pay

Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts – including Blue Light and NHS Discounts, mobile phone discounts, gym memberships, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays, and shopping.

Holiday pay is accrued from the start of paid work and paid monthly based on hours worked.

Option to join the pension scheme, with eligibility for automatic enrolment assessed after three months, subject to earnings.

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,100 employees and more than 20,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.

As a charity with a rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer and more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting people to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this by delivering effective community response and outreach services, including ambulance response, while empowering people with lifesaving clinical skills through our volunteers, community programmes and young responder initiatives.

Job Summary

As a Casual Critical Care Transport Assistant, you'll work as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside nurses, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, doctors and consultants to support the stabilisation and transfer of critically ill patients between hospitals and Critical Care Units.

You'll play a vital role in every transfer— ensuring the safe transport of patients and the clinical team but also providing hands-on patient care within your scope of practice and supporting patients' families throughout what can be an incredibly challenging time.

This casual role is ideal if you are looking for work that fits around your lifestyle, offering flexible shift options with the consistency and support of an established specialist service. You can choose shifts that suit your availability while making a meaningful contribution to critical care transport and the patients and families we support.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Hold a full UK manual driving licence with C1 entitlement, have a minimum of one year's driving experience and no more than three penalty points.

Hold and maintain a recognised clinical qualification that is equivalent to FREC3 SJA Critical Care Transport Assistant qualification, FREC3, FREC4, IREC3, OR IREC4).

Hold and maintain a blue light driving qualification e.g. IHCD D1/D2, BTEC Level 3 or Level 3 Certificate in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving (CERAD).

Experience of working positively with stakeholders.

Experience of operating in stressful emergency situations.

Be able to work flexibly and respond to shifts as required.

About the Role

As a Casual Critical Care Transport Assistant, you will:

Provide safe and effective transport for the patient, clinical team and relatives for each journey; ensuring the comfort, dignity and wellbeing.

Maintain competence in all required skills through continuing professional development and completion of mandatory learning.

Ensure vehicles and equipment are safe, clean, fit for purpose and that any defects are reported promptly.

Work as an integral member of the Critical Care Transport team, supporting NHS clinical colleagues with tasks and procedures within your level of training and competence.

Provide emergency aid, either independently or as part of the clinical team, where appropriate, including responding to incidents encountered during transit.

Support patients' families by providing reassurance, clear information and compassionate care.

Complete all patient, vehicle and equipment documentation accurately and promptly.

Please see the full job description for more information (available on our website or once you click Apply).

To find out more about us, visit www.sja.org.uk or follow us on social media.

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply via the internal careers portal.

For all other candidates, including St John Ambulance volunteers, please apply below.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications. We therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have seven networks including The Armed Forces Network, The Disability & Accessibility Network, The Family & Carers Network, The Heritage & Ethnicity Equity Network, LGBTQIA + Equity, The Multifaith Network & The Women’s Network. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.

St John Ambulance is committed to safeguarding and we promote safe recruitment practice. Therefore, all successful applicants will undergo pre-employment checks, including DBS Clearance, as part of the onboarding process, if applicable to the nature of the role'.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

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