Job summary
Employer heading
Vehicle Maintenance Technician - Chertsey
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
- Contract- Permanent Full time 37.5 hours/week
- Band 5 - £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Location- Chertsey
We have an exciting opportunity for a Vehicle Maintenance Technician at our Chertsey workshop.
You will be a part of a friendly team working on a rota basis supporting operations. The ideal candidates will need to be flexible and able to work on weekends and bank holidays. There will be an additional unsocial payment for unsocial hours worked. Our workshops are open 7 days a week from 6am – 8pm. This post has a cost of living allowance.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will:
- Service, repair and maintain a diverse fleet of vehicles and specialist ambulance equipment to emergency use standards, using the requisite skills and expertise in line with current Health and Safety legislation
- Working on a large fleet of Mercedes Sprinter & Vito, Fiat Ducato, Skoda, DAF and Iveco vehicles used by the Ambulance Trust, you will carry out all types of work on our ambulances and service vehicles. If successful, you will be given main dealer training.
- Examine, inspect and report thoroughly on the condition,
roadworthiness or safety of any vehicle or equipment, including testing and use of diagnostic techniques - Regularly communicate technical information with line managers,
colleagues, other SECAmb staff by phone and e-mail to arrange appointments and prepare vehicles for Ministry Testing at Class IV and VII as per the Ministry of Transport testers manual - To recover any broken down or immobilised vehicle or equipment in a safe manner without a risk to staff and public or additional
damage to SECAmb property in accordance with accepted legislation.
The successful candidates will have sound experience in vehicle maintenance, fault diagnosis and have experience of applying company policies in respect of safety and maintenance practice and standards.
Working for our organisation
- 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidates will have sound experience in vehicle maintenance, fault diagnosis and have experience of applying company policies in respect of safety and maintenance practice and standards.
Please refer to the Job description attached for more details on the role.
Person specification
Motor vehicle qulifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2 experience.
Desirable criteria
- Motor trade experience necessary.
Driving licence
Essential criteria
- Full UK
- C1 Driving licence
Job history
Essential criteria
- Currently in motor trade.
Desirable criteria
- History if out of motor trade for a period.
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Giles
- Job title
- Fleet area manager West
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768762747
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