Job vacancy: Fleet Night Multi-skilled Technician, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: Fleet Night Multi Skilled Technician
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent: Night shifts only
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Four on, four off shift pattern)
Job ref: 308-CORP-3015-B

Employer: London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Pan London
Town: London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 This role attracts Unsocial hours payment.
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/05/2025 23:59

Fleet Night Multi-skilled Technician

NHS AfC: Band 5

London Ambulance Service covers an area of 620 sq. miles, serves one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities and is the busiest ambulance service in the UK. We handle over 1.9 million emergency calls from across the capital and attend more than 1.2 million incidents every single year as well as delivering a 24 hour NHS 111 Integrated Urgent Care Service in South East and North East London that we estimate will respond to around 1.4million urgent care calls by the end of the year.

We employ over 9,000 people who work or volunteer across London to respond to the health needs of over eight million people who live, work and travel in the capital. We work closely with our NHS partners and are commissioned by 32 clinical commissioning groups spread across 5 sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) and NHS England for our specialist services. We work alongside London’s hospital, mental health and specialist trusts, as well as the five STPs across Greater London.

In addition we work in partnership with the other emergency services, London’s Air Ambulance and London’s Resilience Forums to make sure we are ready and prepared to respond to major incidents and ensure we keep Londoners safe. As the only pan-London NHS provider we have a unique opportunity to play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care right across London.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder is responsible to the Workshop Night Manager for day-to-day work allocation and supervision, (but be able to make own decisions in the absence of a Workshop Manager) and is accountable to senior Managers in the Fleet Department.

• Close liaison is required with Workshop colleagues, and also with staff from other departments and suppliers on occasions.
• To work alongside colleagues, providing support and training as necessary to cascade technical training and updates on many different aspects of the vehicle and the vehicle conversion. This would include the training of apprentices.

For further details of the job description and main responsibilities, please see attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Have served a recognised apprenticeship in Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair.
Specialist knowledge across a wide range of practices and procedures in relation to vehicle chassis and vehicle body manufacturers (including engines, brakes, suspension, electrics, blue lights, sirens, eberspacher heaters, communications and control units).
Professional knowledge acquired through HNC level plus specialist knowledge or equivalent.
Hold a current driving licence, valid in the UK, covering vehicles of category C1 with no more than 3 points. Your licence will then be assessed based on the conviction codes to decide if acceptable

Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive experience in the repair and maintenance of petrol and diesel vehicles, with the ability to work unsupervised on a diverse and specialised fleet
To have comprehensive knowledge of vehicle electrical systems, including modern vehicle electronic management, and of computer-based workshop diagnostic equipment e.g.Tech 1, Tech 2 and Star Diagnostic

Personal Abilities

Essential criteria

Ability to pay attention to detail and ensure accuracy at all times
Ability to communicate with all levels of staff and key stake holders by means of written communications, phone, teams and face to face
Ability to work to and meet daily, weekly and monthly deadlines.
Ability to repair and maintain to the required standard Service vehicles which have specialised bodywork/livery and fittings

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is a member of the Business Disability Forum and is a Disability Confident Employer.

For more information on our equalities strategy, please visit our website and review our current equalities strategy.

In addition to the basic salary for all Agenda for Change posts, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust in line with the NHS Agenda for Change provides 15% or 20% High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) dependant on the location of your role. The supplement is subject to minimum and maximum payment.

High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) for part time employee will be based on the part time salary.

Correspondence regarding an application will be done via email to all job applicants. Please ensure you provide current e-mail address on the job application form and please check your email inbox and junk mail regularly.

If you are successful at interview and offered employment, your personal details will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Pre-employment checks will be required for all applicants who are issued with a conditional offer of employment. This includes Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) checks as required for the post and registration with the DBS update service. Documents presented for the purpose of Identity Checks will be verified for authenticity via an ID Scanner. The security features to be checked include machine readable zone, ultra violet image and infra-red image.

The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust reserves the right to close adverts before the published closing date due to high volumes of applications received.

If you do not hear back from us within four weeks of the advert closing date, please assume that you have not been successful at the shortlisting stage.