Job summary
- Main area
- Fleet Vehicle Technician
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working a rota where team covers 7 days a week 0700-1700)
- Job ref
- 335-A-1802
- Employer
- East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- DEPENDENT ON CANDIDATE
- Town
- DEPENDENT ON CANDIDATE
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 SSALARY RANGE PLUS RECRUITMENT & RETENTION PAY & SHIFT ALLOWANCE
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Fleet Vehicle Technician - Lincolnshire
NHS AfC: Band 5
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 exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for a qualified motor vehicle technician to join our mobile team in Lincolnshire providing mechanical repairs and routine maintenance to our fleet of front line A+E vehicles as well as support vehicles including all specialist ancillary and patient handling equipment.
Providing a high level of service you will ensure there are enough A+E vehicles available to respond to the needs of our patients both in Lincolnshire and the wider East Midlands Region.
No two days are the same whether that be the repairs you are completing or the area you are working in ensuring a varied and interesting workload with a high level of responsibility and job satisfaction.
You should have an appropriate Level 3 qualification in Motor Vehicle Engineering or equivalent experience, with one years post training experience of working on vehicles of all types but in particular LCVs up to 7.5 tonnes would be advantageous.
The applicant will need a C1 Driving Licence or be prepared to attain this within the 9 month probation period.
The hours of work are 07:00 - 17:00 on a shift rota including weekends and Bank Holidays.
Main duties of the job
Provide mechanical repairs and routine maintenance to our fleet of front line A+E vehicles as well as support vehicles including all specialist ancillary and patient handling equipment.
Providing a high level of service you will ensure there are enough A+E vehicles available to respond to the needs of our patients both in Lincolnshire and the wider East Midlands Region.
Working for our 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 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. 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
The post will entail the servicing and mechanical repairs of Ambulances and Fast Response vehicles. It is an exciting opportunity to broaden your mechanical experience to work on the specialised equipment on emergency service vehicles.
You should have an appropriate Level 3 qualification in Motor Vehicle Engineering or equivalent, with one years post training experience of working on vehicles of all types but in particular LCVs up to 7.5 tonnes would be advantageous.
The applicant will need a C1 Driving Licence or be prepared to attain this within the 9 month probation period.
The hours of work are 07:00 - 17:00 on a shift rota including weekends and Bank Holidays.
For more details please see Job Description
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Level 3 in Motor Vehicles or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- C1 driving licence
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Needham
- Job title
- Head of Operational Support
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01773522650
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