Job summary
- Main area
- Ad-Hoc ICC
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 242-4904-LR1
- Employer
- North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- ICC Dispatch Management S2 ( Parkway, Broughton or Estuary Point)
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
ICC Dispatch Duty Lead
Band 7
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our minimum selection criteria at each stage of the selection process. We will not tolerate discrimination on any of the following: gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, working pattern, caring responsibilities trade union activity or political beliefs-or any other grounds.
In October 2025 we published our Anti-racist Statement, which sets out our key commitments to becoming an anti-racist organisation. These commitments underpin our recruitment practices and reflect our dedication to creating a diverse, inclusive, and representative workforce.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of staff from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. We encourage applications from all backgrounds to improve the diversity of our workforce and to better reflect the communities we serve to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place; every time.
The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a large number of applications are received.
Due to the volume of applications received for our advertisements, we will only contact those candidates shortlisted for interview via email; we aim to do this within 4 weeks of the closing date. If you do not receive the email, it will be that you have not been shortlisting on this occasion. When applying for this position, it is essential that you read the job description and person specification fully. Please use the supporting information space to demonstrate your ability to undertake this role, drawing on your skills, knowledge and experience.
We also offers a range of excellent benefits including a pension scheme, up to 33 days Annual leave (exclusive of bank holidays), training and development opportunities, access to NHS discounts, Car Lease Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, NHS Mortgages and Childcare Vouchers.
Job overview
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Locations:
Trust Wide EOC ( Broughton, Parkway and Estuary Point)
Positions Available: x6
Recruitment Campaign:
Advertising Dates: 31/12/2025 - 14/01/2026
Shortlisting: 15/01/2026
Assessment Centres - 26/01/2026 and 27/01/2026
Person specification
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft packages including Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point
- Professional attitude to work and the drive to improve service delivery.
- Counselling skills.
- Demonstrable compassionate and inclusive leadership
- Demonstrable experience of line management responsibilities.
- Ability to work on own initiative for protracted periods and manage own time.
- Strong work ethic
- Ability to make dynamic decisions whilst under pressure
- Self-disciplined and motivated to improve patient care
- Experience and understanding of investigations and the understanding of governance process.
- Strong analytic, and critical reasoning skills involving highly complex facts or situations and capable of effective analysis, interpretation, and comparisons of a range of options.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to provide and receive highly complex information where there are significant barriers to acceptance.
- Ability to communicate effectively in situations where it is considered sensitive or highly contentious.
- Effective, adaptable and influential and able to persuade others with personal conviction and facts
- Ability to lead, develop and motivate a diverse team whilst being assertive, persuasive and influential.
- Have highly developed negotiating and influencing skills.
- Able to make sense of complex and conflicting priorities.
- Have own transport and be able to travel to other sites as required.
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or have equivalent experience in healthcare management.
- Coaching and mentoring qualification – CMI Level 5 (or working towards)
- Understanding of dispatch processes.
- Knowledge of NEPTS contracts and Ambulance Response Programme standards
- Commander and JESIP training attended
- NWAS managerial courses.
- Considerable experience in the application of HR processes
- In-depth knowledge across a number of disciplines including performance management, information and reporting systems, staff management and change management.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous management/supervisory experience within a contact centre environment.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of dealing with sensitive and/or complex information.
- Able to demonstrate experience of leading and managing a diverse range of staff employed in the provision of patient services.
- Have business planning, objective setting and performance management experience. Able to implement medium/long term and tactical plans which contribute to strategic plans.
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Working together – demonstrate collaborative and inclusive working and challenge behaviour that is not inclusive or acceptable.
- Be smart and presentable
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Kelly
- Job title
- Head of ICC Dispatch, Planning & Coordination
- Email address
- [email protected]
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