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Job summary

Main area
Driving
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri 07.00 - 15.00)
Job ref
335-A-1850
Employer
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Alfreton Resource Centre
Town
Alfreton
Salary
£24,465 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/08/2025 23:59

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East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust logo

Medical Device Engineering Team Driver

NHS AfC: Band 2

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 opportunity has arisen for a MDE Driver to join our team at Alfreton  

The successful applicant will drive Trust vehicles to collect medical devices and other equipment, vehicles from EMAS sites and 3rd party providers. Contributing to ensuring success of the medical devices team and ensuring the correct and properly maintained equipment is available at all times.

Main duties of the job

With a flexible approach to both hours and duties, applicants must have a full clean driving licence (minor speeding offences may be considered).

The successful applicant will drive Trust vehicles to collect medical devices and other equipment, vehicles from EMAS sites and 3rd party providers.

Working for our organisation

Working for your 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
  • Good communication skills
  • Good levels of fitness and manual-handling skills (for some roles)
  • Excellent driving skills (for some roles)
  • Initiative
  • Decision-making skills
  • A calm manner even in the most challenging situations
  • A willingness to learn and further develop your skills

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To carry out driving duties on behalf of the trust, moving equipment around the trust, primarily within the trust boundaries but occasionally beyond these.
  • To collect and deliver parts, tools, medical equipment and other items as requested to assist in day to day service delivery.
  • To adhere to trust values.
  • To ensure cleanliness and roadworthiness of vehicles used within role where appropriate.
  • To adopt a flexible approach in response to operational needs regarding duties, base/location and hours of work.
  • To maintain a level of fitness in accordance with role and attend any medical assessments to enable the post holder to safely carry out the duties post.
  • To keep informed and abreast of current trends and developments within the Trust and nationally.
  • To maintain personal development and competency.
  • To undertake any other duties as requested.
  • Will be responsible for personal professional development – continuous.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant driving experience
  • Organisational skills/experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDyslexia Award Logo

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
Richard Needham
Job title
Head of Operational Support
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01773 522650
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