Fleet Vehicle Technician - Northamptonshire

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is seeking a qualified Fleet Vehicle Technician for the Northamptonshire workshop. The role focuses on servicing and mechanical repairs of ambulances, fast response vehicles and support cars, ensuring high standards and readiness for emergency response.

A C1 driving licence is essential; the position supports ongoing training and development within a small, dedicated fleet team at Northampton.

Qualifications

• City & Guilds/NVQ in Motor Vehicle Engineering or equivalent.
• Full current driving licence.
• C1 driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Service vehicles according to the Trust service schedules.
• Carry out mechanical repairs to ambulances, fast response cars and support vehicles.
• Go to other ambulance stations to carry out vehicle repairs if required.
• Service equipment used on ambulances such as stretchers and chairs.
• Attend training courses and keep up with mechanical updates and mandatory education.

Education

City & Guilds/NVQ in Motor Vehicle Engineering or equivalent

Full Current Driving Licence

C1 Driving Licence

Job description

Fleet Vehicle Technician - Northamptonshire

NHS AfC: Band 5

Main area Fleet Vehicle Technician Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Rota pattern to be confirmed) Job ref 335-A-2034-A

Site Unit 3, Scotia Close Town Northampton Salary £32,073 - £39,043 15% R & R with 2 yrs Experience, Newly qualified salary TBC, USH Salary period Yearly Closing 27/09/2026 23:59

We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.

The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).

Job overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a qualified Fleet Vehicle Technician, based at Northampton workshop. The role involves maintaining a range of vehicles operated by the Trust including ambulances, fast response cars and support vehicles. It is an exciting opportunity to be part of the development of the workshop facility and repair and maintain the emergency vehicle's within our community.

Main duties of the job

The job will entail the servicing and mechanical repairs of our double crewed ambulances and fast response vehicles. It is an exciting opportunity to broaden your mechanical experience to work on the specialist equipment on emergency service vehicles.

A C1 driving licence is essential for this post so a candidate must have C1 category on their licence or commit to obtaining within the 1st year of employment.

The current working hours are 08:00–16:00, Monday to Friday, with weekend and Bank Holiday working available through overtime opportunities. There is also the potential for a future rota review which will attract USH enhancements.

Working for our organisation

It is an exciting opportunity to join the EMAS Fleet team in supporting the front line services to be able to respond to patient needs in an emergency situation.
At Northampton, we are a small busy team who believes in providing the best possible service. Our fleet team consists of a Fleet Divisional Manager and 3 Fleet Technicians.

We also have a Deep Clean Team, which works alongside the workshop. We have 3 experienced fleet drivers and 2 domestic cleaners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful applicant will be expected to service vehicles in accordance with the trust service schedules. Carry out mechanical repairs to the trust vehicles to a high standard. You may be asked to go to other ambulance stations to carry out vehicle repairs.

You will also be trained to service pieces of equipment used on the back of ambulances i.e. stretchers, carry chairs, wheelchairs etc.

You will be required to go on training courses and keep up with mechanical updates.

You will also be required to carry out essential education as per the trusts requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications

• City & Guilds/NVQ in Motor Vehicle Engineering or equivalent
• Full Current Driving Licence
• C1 Driving Licence

The East Midlands has a lot to offer:

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Accessibility

If you have any accessibility requirements at any point during the recruitment process, then please contact the recruiting manager.

If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.

Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer,committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.

We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.

Our Vision -Respondingto patient needs in the right way,developingour organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, andcollaboratingto improve wider healthcare.

Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.

Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (Al l spent and unspent convictions must declared).

If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.