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Job summary

Main area
Estates
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
308-CORP-3188
Employer
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Fire Service College
Town
Gloucestershire
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/02/2026 23:59

Employer heading

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust logo

Warehouse Operative

NHS AfC: Band 3

Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year.  We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.

We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city.  We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.

We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.

We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time

Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.

 

 

Job overview

The purpose of this role is to support the delivery of excellent clinical care for patients by having the right equipment and products available at the right place at the right time.

The post holder will be required to assist in the preparation of essential products and equipment for delivery; checking they are correctly picked, packed and ready for distribution in a timely and effective manner.
Move stock around the warehouse to ensure maximum efficiency and to ensure stock is rotated to prevent waste. Use plant machinery to do so such as a reach truckand/or fork lift.

Main duties of the job

Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.


• Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
• Routinely undertake warehouse duties in a safe, effective and efficient manner, commensurate with the post, as directed by warehouse Team Leader.
• Be responsible for following set procedures in order to accurately maintain stock records.
• Identify areas within their day to day tasks and responsibilities to make efficiencies and quality improvements to their role and present them to the Business Manager to implement across the department. All post holders will be expected to be proactive in identifying service development opportunities within the warehouse and distribution 
environment.

Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the services they provide.
• Excellent communication with NHSR ECU staff, Fire Service College support staff and managers to support a proactive and professional approach is maintained to local and centralised stock management.

Working for our organisation

The principal aim of the NHS Resilience Emergency Capabilities Unit (ECU) is to support the delivery of patient care and improved clinical outcomes in a range of challenging environments across England.  The unit supports NHS Trusts and partner agencies to provide an effective response to the major and complex incidents defined within the UK’s National Risk Register. 

The NHS ECU is the national centre of excellence for emergency preparedness, resilience, and response across England’s ambulance services. Hosted by the London Ambulance Service and commissioned by NHS England.

Formerly known as the National Ambulance Resilience Unit (NARU), the NHS ECU builds on over a decade of operational expertise, clinical leadership, and innovation. Our mission is to strengthen national resilience by supporting ambulance trusts and wider NHS partners with the capabilities, training, and coordination needed to deliver outstanding care in the most demanding environments.

Our work is structured around three core capabilities:

  • Preparedness: Ensuring our teams are ready to respond through rigorous training, clinical excellence, and strategic planning.
  • Interoperability: Embedding multi-agency collaboration into every aspect of our work, from joint training to national coordination.
  • Improvement: Anticipating future risks and continuously evolving our capabilities to meet them.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants are advised to read all the information enclosed in the advert before completing an application. For further details of main responsibilities, please see attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current UK Driving License full manual driving license (no more than 3 penalty points)
  • Provisional C1 category on driving license valid within the UK (be willing to obtain full C1 category within 12 months of employment)
  • Vocational Qualifications, for example, Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Warehousing and Storage or equivalent experience
  • Good standard of written and verbal English
  • A lift-truck certificate of basic training

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of stores / stocking taking / checking in a public service, healthcare, military or emergency services environment
  • Experience of working within a public service or customer care environment
  • Upon commencement in role, additional training will be given to undertake AdBlue, deep cleaning and to be able to carry out functional testing on medical equipment

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to follow instructions and to work on own initiative
  • Effective communication skills both verbal and written
  • Good understanding of basic vehicle safety
  • Basic computer skills/ IT literate
  • Good Interpersonal skills and can be a team player

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Martin Hilliard
Job title
Consultant Paramedic (Education)
Email address
[email protected]
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