Qualified ECA/ASC/Technician - Job Share Spalding

Qualified ECA/ASC/Technician - Job Share SpaldingThe closing date is 31 May 2026

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 Spalding Ambulance station. The successful candidate will work 18.75 hours on the Blue line.

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

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 Trusts protocols and procedures.

As an Emergency Care Assistant or Ambulance Support Crew, attend cases of accident and sudden illness and respond to urgent, special and planned patient transfer requests. To use advanced driving skills under blue light and normal traffic conditions to respond to emergency and routine calls as required. To assist a qualified practitioner in the delivery of high quality and effective clinical and personal care and the transportation of patients, selecting and applying appropriate equipment and skills in line with the scope of practice and associated training.

Please refer to the attached documents for the job description and person specification for each of the specific job roles (Technician, Emergency Care Assistant and Ambulance Support Crew).

Person SpecificationQualifications and Skills

• Must be Qualified ECA/Technician/ASC
• Full clean driving licence including Category A - old style licence - or Categories B & C1 - new style licence. Applicants with a minor speeding offence may be considered.
• Emergency Ambulance Driving Qualification

Personal Attributes

• Displays an ability to sympathise and empathise with other people, a caring disposition.
• Displays a commitment to undertake training as required/personal development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust

£25,760 to £39,043 a yearper annum, current section 2 plus unsociable hours

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