Qualified Technician Job Share - Scunthorpe

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

Job summary

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is recruiting a Qualified Technician for Scunthorpe Ambulance Station on a part-time job-share basis. The role covers 18.75 hours per week across day and twilight shifts, with responsibilities as an emergency ambulance crew member.

You will respond to 999 calls, provide patient care and transport, and work under IHCD standards within EMAS protocols, joining a values-driven team focused on Respect, Integrity, Contribution, Teamwork and Competence.

Qualifications

• Must be Qualified Technician.
• Full clean driving licence including Category A or B/C1.
• Emergency Ambulance Driving Qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide appropriate care, treatment and transportation of patients using IHCD standards and EMAS protocols.
• Respond to 999 calls as part of an emergency ambulance crew and use driving skills under blue light and normal traffic to urgent and routine calls.
• Assist in delivering high-quality clinical and personal care and connect patients to appropriate care pathways.

Skills

Qualified Technician

Full clean driving licence

Emergency Ambulance Driving

Job description

NHS AfC: Band 5

Main area Frontline Responders Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Job share

18.75 hours per week (18.75 hours per week, working across Days, Twilights) Job ref 335-A-2082

Site Scunthorpe Ambulance Station Town Scunthorpe Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, current section 2 plus unsociable hours 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 exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualifedTechnician to join us on a job-share basis at Scunthorpe Ambulance station The successful candidate will work 18.75 hours

About you

You must be already working as a Qualified Technician to apply for this position. You will serve your community responding to 999 calls as part of an emergency ambulance crew. You will deal with a range of different people and situations and use clinical guidelines to manage and direct patients to the most appropriate care pathway.

Main duties of the job

This role requires motivation, commitment and personal resilience as well as an ability to reflect and seek feedback on clinical practice.

You must have excellent communication skills, be friendly and work well within a team. It is important to be reliable and punctual in your work due to the nature of an emergency service and the need to respond promptly to incidents/calls. A commitment to continual professional development is also essential due to the evolving nature of emergency and urgent care.

You must also embrace and promote equality, diversity and inclusivity in your role and at every opportunity. You will be required to make clinical decisions as a Technician and will be the lead clinician if crewed up with an Emergency Ambulance Associate, which will enable you to provide patients with potentially life-saving care at the scene as well as linking patients with alternative care pathways within the community.

Working for our organisation

EMAS has five values which underpins everything we do; how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. Our values were updated in 2018 to reflect our commitment to encouraging innovation, team and partnership working, and looking outwards as well as inwards.

By living these values and supporting others to do the same, we will help to make sure that EMAS is an organisation we can all be proud of.

• Respect: Respect for our patients and each other
• Integrity: Acting with integrity by doing the right thing for the right reasons
• Contribution: Respecting and valuing everyone's contribution, and encouraging innovation
• Teamwork: Working together, supporting each other, and collaborating with other organisations
• Competence: Continually developing and improving competence

There are many qualities you will need to make a success of being a member of the EMAS team. Some you will learn as your career develops; others are personal skills:

• A willingness to work as a member of a team
• Initiative
• A calm manner even in the most challenging situations
• A willingness to learn and further develop your skills

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Technician, you will provide appropriate care, treatment and transportation of all categories of patients (including emergency and non-emergency cases) using the highest quality of skills and promoting the safety and well-being of patients at all times. To provide this care in accordance with the Institute of Health and Care Development (IHCD) standards and within the scope of the Trust’s protocols and procedures.

As an Technician, attend cases of accident and sudden illness and respond to urgent, special and planned patient transfer requests. To use advanced driving skills under blue light and normal traffic conditions to respond to emergency and routine calls as required.

To assist in the delivery of high quality and effective clinical and personal care and the transportation of patients, selecting and applying appropriate equipment and skills in line with the scope of practice and associated training.

Please refer to the attached documents for the job description and person specification for the specific job roles (Technician)

Qualifications and Skills

• Must be Qualified Technician
• Full clean driving licence including Category A - old style licence - or Categories B & C1 - new style licence. Applicants with a minor speeding offence may be considered.
• Emergency Ambulance Driving Qualification

Personal Attributes

• Displays an ability to sympathise and empathise with other people, a caring disposition.
• Displays a commitment to undertake training as required/personal development

The East Midlands has a lot to offer:

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Accessibility

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.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.