Qualified ECA​/ASC​/Technician - Job Share

NHS AfC:
Band 3 to 5

Main area Frontline Responders Grade NHS AfC:
Band 3 to 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Job share

Site Scunthorpe Ambulance Station Town Scunthorpe Salary £25,760 - £39,043 per annum, current section 2 plus unsociable hours Salary period Yearly Closing 16/08/2026 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 exciting opportunity has arisen for a Qualified Emergency Care Assistant, Ambulance Support Crew or Technician to join us on a job-share basis at Scunthorpe Ambulance station The successful candidate will work 18.75 hours

About you

You must be already working as a Qualified Emergency Care Assistant, Ambulance Support Crew or Technician to apply for this position. You will serve your community responding to 999 calls as part of an emergency ambulance crew. You will deal with a range of different people and situations and use clinical guidelines to manage and direct patients to the most appropriate care pathway.

This role requires motivation, commitment and personal resilience as well as an ability to reflect and seek feedback on clinical practice.

You must have excellent communication skills, be friendly and work well within a team. It is important to be reliable and punctual in your work due to the nature of an emergency service and the need to respond promptly to incidents/calls. A commitment to continual professional development is also essential due to the evolving nature of emergency and urgent care.

You must also embrace and promote equality, diversity and inclusivity in your role and at every opportunity. You will work as an Emergency Care Assistant, Ambulance Support Crew or Technician, depending on your current grade.

You will be required to make clinical decisions as a Technician and will be the lead clinician if crewed up with an Emergency Care Assistant, which will enable you to provide patients with potentially life‑saving care at the scene as well as linking patients with alternative care pathways within the community.

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
• Initiative
• A calm manner even in the most challenging situations
• A willingness to learn and further develop your skills

As a Technician, you will provide appropriate care, treatment and transportation of all categories of patients (including emergency and non‑emergency cases) using the highest quality of skills and promoting the safety and well‑being of patients at all times. To provide this care in accordance with the Institute of Health and Care Development (IHCD) standards and within the scope of the Trust’s protocols and procedures.

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