Job summary
- Main area
- Ambulance Technician
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 278-Tech-0325-AS
- Employer
- South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust Wide
- Town
- Trust Wide
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Ambulance Technician
Band 5
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.
Job overview
Ambulance Technician
We are actively looking to increase our workforce and invite people looking to relocate to the NHS and SECAmb area for the role Ambulance Technician .Ìý
We have opportunities available Trust Wide.
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Main duties of the job
Essential criteria Ìý
- Full IHCD Technician certificate only or equivalent BTEC Level 3 Ambulance Aid
- CandidatesÌýMUSTÌýhold a full C1 (manual) category on their driving licence as well as a Blue Light Driving Qualification prior to joining the trust
- Experienced Technicians including Frec 5 with at least 2 years front line experience
- 12 lead ECG recognition of key life-threatening rhythms, acquired through knowledge, training and experience
Please note, all qualifications will need to be verified by the candidate producing original copies of certificates. If you have misplaced your certificates, please request copies from the relevant examination board and upload a statement detailing this to the application form as required.
Desirable
- GCSE English and Maths at Grade C – or Level 2 English and Maths / a commitment to obtain these
You will have a driving assessment and upon joining Ìýyou will go straight into a clinical conversion course.
ÌýThis opportunity is for the named locationÌý and we wouldÌý shortlist those within a 45-minutes commute.
Working for our organisation
- Option to join NHS pension scheme
- A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
- Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
- Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
- Access to occupational health and counselling services.
- Award winning wellbeing hub
- Back up buddy App
- Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Our vision is to become a world-class provider of emergency and urgent healthcare services in the pre-hospital and out of hospital environments. To help us achieve this aim we are recruiting for Experienced Technicians
We want to support you through that transition and watch you grow through a tailored programme of personal and professional development within our Trust.
If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of Agenda for Change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More details regarding Section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on theÌýe.
Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for empathetic and committed individuals and hold a BTECH Level 3 / IHCD Leve qualificationÌý and Level 3 Certificate in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving and full C1 Licence held. Applicants must have an excellent knowledge of pre-hospital, be methodical and systematic and demonstrate compassionate care in their daily interaction with patients.
Applicants must also have the ability to deal with stressful and sensitive situations whilst being highly motivated and enthusiastic.
Do you want to make a difference to frontline patient care? Come and join Team SECAmb.
The recruitment process for this year will include the following elements:
Submission of an application form detailing your history and qualifications
Attending an assessment centre as listed above.
Fitness test.
Uniform fitting.
A discussion with an operational lead to match you to the best area of SECAmb to commence employment (subject to vacancies).
Following success passing the assessment centre a conditional offer then be made within a week and we will commence compliance, which covers ID Checks, DBS checks, Occupational health, Reference checks.
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A condition of employment is that until you have completed 52 weeks in the area of the trust you have applied for that you cannot apply to join the transfer list to move to another trust location during this period. ÌýThis is to support the mentorship and skill mix and ensure vacancies are planned for.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full IHCD Technician certificate only or equivalent BTEC Level 3 Ambulance Aid/FREC 5. Valid Emergency Driving qualification.
- Full C1 Licence
Desirable criteria
- GCSE Maths and English, Grade A-C (4) or above or Level 2 equivalent Qualification
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Archana Shettigar
- Job title
- Recruitment Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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