Job overview

Are you a fully qualified, experienced and current emergency response driving instructor looking for a flexible opportunity to support an established, high-performing team?

We are seeking experienced, qualified and in-date emergency response driving instructors to join our team on a bank contract basis. These roles are intended to strengthen the resilience of our existing instructor workforce, providing additional capacity to support the continued delivery of our nationally recognised emergency response driver training programmes.

As a bank instructor, you will work alongside our established team to deliver high-quality emergency response driving instruction across the Trust. Your expertise will play a vital role in ensuring our frontline clinicians have the skills and confidence to respond safely and effectively to patients.

Our instructor team delivers training to newly appointed Paramedics and Emergency Care Assistants, equipping them with the emergency response driving skills they rely on every day. We also provide a range of specialist driver training, including 4x4 off-road driving, trailer towing, convoy driving and other specialist operational courses.

This is an excellent opportunity for qualified instructors who are looking for flexible work while contributing to the development of the Trust's emergency response capability and helping maintain the highest standards of driver training.

Main duties of the job

To apply for this role, you need to meet the following criteria:

• Be a fully qualified holder of the FutureQuals Diploma in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving Instruction qualification. 
• Have a minimum of 5 years recent post qualification experience as a DERADI instructor.
• Be a fully registered ADI (DVSA Approved Driving Instructor)
• Be a qualified emergency response driver (with ambulance service driving experience).
• Fulfil DVSA Group 2 medical licencing standards
• Hold a full valid GB driving licence with a C1 category entitlement
• Must have experience of 4x4 driving instruction
• Must have experience of trailer and towing instruction
• Must have no more than 3 penalty points on your driving licence

Working for our organisation

At South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) we have a culture where everyone is valued for being themselves. Our aim is to work together to promote the most inclusive environment possible, which attracts people from the widest range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work that we do together, for the benefit of all of our employees, our patients and the communities we serve. We offer flexible working opportunities, inclusive policies and a range of feedback mechanisms to support individuals and to enable a positive, welcoming environment where our people and their careers can thrive in.

We employ over 5,000 employees mainly clinical, operational and emergency response staff as well as supporting roles. We also employ Doctors and volunteers which include community first responders.

We take all the steps needed to provide the most compassionate patient care possible whilst also providing an enjoyable and safe place to work. We actively promote a positive set of behaviours as being key to our performance both individually and collectively. Our recruitment, selection and screening processes are designed to uphold these standards and we invite all our candidates to actively share with us through these processes how they will bring these behaviours to life.