patient transport services driver
ISCO: 8322. Skills: 25. Essential: 15.
Essential skills
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- assist passengers
- complete patient journey records
- comply with legislation related to health care
- drive ambulance under non-emergency conditions
- follow verbal instructions
- follow written instructions
- licences regulation
- local geography
- maintain vehicle appearance
- maintain vehicle service
- mechanical components of vehicles
- operate an emergency communication system
- transfer patients
- transport allocated patients
Supporting skills
- apply numeracy skills
- assist patients with special needs
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- empathise with the healthcare user
- first aid
- health care legislation
- older adults' needs
- resuscitation
- use foreign languages in patient care