Fleet Vehicle Technician

Main area Fleet Vehicle Technician Grade NHS AfC:
Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working Monday to Friday 08:00 - 16:00/Available Saturday's as Overtime) Job
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Site Unit 3, Scotia Close Town Northampton Salary £31,049 - £37,796 15% R & R with 2 yrs Experience,USH,Newly qualified salary TBC Salary period Yearly Closing 23/08/2026 23:59

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).

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a qualified Fleet Vehicle Technician based at Northampton workshop. The role involves maintaining a range of vehicles operated by the Trust including ambulances, fast response cars and support vehicles.

It is an exciting opportunity to be part of the development of the workshop facility and repair and maintain the emergency vehicle's within our community.

The job will entail the servicing and mechanical repairs of our double crewed ambulances and fast response vehicles. It is an exciting opportunity to broaden your mechanical experience to work on the specialist equipment on emergency service vehicles.

A C1 driving licence is essential for this post so a candidate must have C1 category on their licence or commit to obtaining within the 1st year of employment.

The hours of work are 08:00 - 16:00 Mon-Friday/Weekend and Bank Holiday available as overtime

It is an exciting opportunity to join the EMAS Fleet team in supporting the front line services to be able to respond to patient needs in an emergency situation.

At Northampton, we are a small busy team who believes in providing the best possible service. Our fleet team consists of a Fleet Divisional Manager and 3 Fleet Technicians.

We also have a Deep Clean Team, which works alongside the workshop. We have 3 experienced fleet drivers and 2 domestic cleaners.

The successful applicant will be expected to service vehicles in accordance with the trust service schedules. Carry out mechanical repairs to the trust vehicles to a high standard. You may be asked to go to other ambulance stations to carry out vehicle repairs.

You will also be trained to service pieces of equipment used on the back of ambulances i.e. stretchers, carry chairs, wheelchairs etc.

You will be required to go on training courses and keep up with mechanical updates.

You will also be required to carry out essential education as per the trusts requirements.

• City & Guilds/NVQ in Motor Vehicle Engineering or equivalent
• Full Current Driving Licence
• C1 Driving Licence

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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…