Station Manager - Northamptonshire

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is seeking a Station Manager (Band 7) to lead an ambulance station in Northamptonshire. This critical role focuses on delivering safe, high-quality patient care, shaping culture, and driving performance within a dynamic environment.

You will oversee diverse teams, ensure staff wellbeing, development, and performance, and contribute to governance across operations while coordinating with clinical leaders and partners.

Qualifications

• Evidence of ongoing CPD
• Management diploma or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Experience in managing diverse teams and staff

Responsibilities

• Provide visible and compassionate leadership across one or more ambulance stations
• Ensure governance, investigations and complaints are managed effectively
• Support staff during challenging events and promote learning and continuous improvement

Skills

Leadership

People management

Communication

Decision making

Resilience

Education

Management diploma or equivalent

Job description

Main area A&E Operation Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent: A4C Section 2 unsocial hours enhancement (where applicable) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Predominantly Monday to Friday with some weekend working.) Job ref 335-A-2087

Site Wellingborough Ambulance Station Town Northamptonshire Salary £49,387 - £56,515 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 04/10/2026 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

We are seeking motivated and values driven emerging leaders to join our Station Manager (Band 7) team at East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS), Northamptonshire Division.

As a Station Manager, you will lead an ambulance station, shaping culture, driving performance, and ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centered care.

Main duties of the job

As a Station Manager, you will provide visible and compassionate leadership across one or more ambulance stations, creating a culture where staff feel supported, valued, and motivated to deliver high-quality patient care. You will lead diverse teams, ensuring wellbeing, development, and performance are consistently prioritised.

You will be accountable for delivering operational performance across quality, workforce, finance, and efficiency, making informed decisions in a fast-paced and dynamic environment to respond to changing demand.

You will also play a key role in incident and command structures, acting as an Operational Commander when required, while supporting staff following challenging events and promoting a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

Working collaboratively with clinical leaders and partners, you will ensure strong governance, manage investigations and complaints, and contribute to service improvement and transformational change across the organisation.

Working for our organisation

At East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS), we are committed to creating an environment where people feel supported, valued, and able to thrive. We place a strong emphasis on wellbeing, inclusion, and building a culture where everyone feels they belong.

We recognise the demands of a 24/7 service and are committed to exploring flexible ways of working wherever possible, helping you balance your professional and personal commitments.

As part of the Station Manager talent pool, you will also benefit from structured development, exposure to senior leadership, and opportunities to grow your skills and experience before stepping into post.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed description of the job and the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description document.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of ongoing CPD
• Willingness to undertake any training deemed necessary for the fulfilment of duties
• Management diploma or evidence of equivalent demonstrable experience

Experience

• Relevant and evidence of operational experience in managerial roles
• Evidence of supervising and managing diverse teams of staff
• Working under pressure, demonstrating significant resilience, confidence and selfbelief in challenging situations
• Ability to meet challenging deadlines and manage conflicting priorities
• Extensive evidence of problem solving using own initiative

The East Midlands has a lot to offer:

Making a Difference

Action Packed Roles

Support and Belonging

Accessibility

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 -Responding to patient needs in the right way,developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, andcollaborating to 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.

Name Martin Claydon Job title Head of Operations Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0777 154 0981 Additional information

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you require any additional information or you would like to explore the role in more detail prior to application.

Martin Claydon - Head of Operations

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