Job vacancy: Fleet Driver - Alfreton, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Alfreton

Job summary

Main area: Fleet
Grade: Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day rota 0700-1700, 3 week pattern - working one weekend in 3)
Job ref: 335-A-1841

Employer: East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Alfreton Resource Center
Town: Alfreton
Salary: £24,465 Will receive % uplift for unsocial hours / weekend working
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/08/2025 23:59

Fleet Driver - Alfreton

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).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Safely carry out driving duties on behalf of the Trust, primarily transporting vehicles within Trust boundaries, with occasional travel beyond as required.
Collect and deliver parts, tools, medical equipment, and other essential items to support daily service operations.
Ensure all duties are performed in line with the Trust’s values and standards.
Maintain the cleanliness and roadworthiness of vehicles used in the role, where appropriate.
Demonstrate flexibility in response to operational needs, including variations in duties, base location, and working hours.
Maintain a level of physical fitness appropriate to the role and attend any required medical assessments to ensure fitness for duty.
Stay informed about current developments and best practices within the Trust and the wider healthcare sector.
Take responsibility for personal development and maintaining professional competence.
Undertake any other duties as reasonably requested to support the service.
Commit to continuous professional development and actively manage your own learning and growth

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Minimum 2 years driving experience
C1 Driving licence

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience in a similar role

The East Midlands has a lot to offer:

Excellent Location

Making a Difference

Action Packed Roles

Support and Belonging

Note on Covid-19 Vaccination status:

It is a clear professional responsibility of all health care staff to be vaccinated. EMAS NHS Trust therefore encourages and supports all employees to be vaccinated as it remains the best line of defence against COVID 19.

Accessibility

If you have any accessibility requirements at any point during the recruitment process, then please contact the recruiting manager.

If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.

Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.

We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.

Our Vision - Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare.

Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.

Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (All spent and unspent convictions must declared).

If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.