Main area Teaching Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract 20 months (Fixed Term/Secondment until 31 March 2028) Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week (Between Monday to Friday 0800 – 1600)
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).
Job overview
We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic Driving Educators to join our Education Team and play a key role in delivering the Trust’s Workforce Development Plan.
The successful candidates will support the development of our future workforce by delivering high-quality emergency response driver training within clinical development pathways, ensuring staff achieve and maintain the skills required to operate safely and effectively.
The role will also contribute to the delivery of the Trust’s Emergency Response Driving Refresher Programme, helping to ensure ongoing compliance with current legislation, national standards, and organisational requirements. Working as part of a dedicated education team, you will support learners throughout their development, promoting best practice, professionalism, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Location
This post is aligned to the Trust’s Education Department and can be based from our Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, or Nottinghamshire Education Centres. The majority of training delivery will take place across within our Education Centres, although travel throughout the East Midlands region may be required to meet service needs.
Main duties of the job
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) Education Team as a Driving Educator.
As a key member of Organisational Learning, you will play a vital role in developing and supporting our workforce through the delivery of high-quality driver education programmes. The role encompasses the delivery of both classroom-based and practical training, supporting learners throughout their development journey, and contributing to divisional driver development and mandatory educational updates.
We are looking for a passionate and motivated individual who embodies the EMAS values and is committed to delivering excellence in education and learner support.
You will be an experienced emergency response driver with a recognised emergency driving instructor qualification, such as the L4 Diploma in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving Instruction.
You will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage, inspire and develop learners from a variety of professional backgrounds.
As a Driver Educator, you will be responsible for delivering and assessing across a diverse portfolio of driver training programmes. You will work closely with learners and operational colleagues to ensure the highest standards of driving competence, safety and professionalism are achieved and maintained throughout the organisation.
Working for our organisation
The Trust’s Driving Education Team sits within the wider Organisational Learning (OL) Department and plays a critical role in the development of the Trust’s workforce. The team is responsible for delivering the emergency response driving qualification phase, which forms an essential component of the development pathways for clinicians and operational staff across the organisation.
Working collaboratively with the Driving Standards Manager, Head of Education, Divisional Leadership Teams and operational colleagues, the Driving Education Team ensures that driver training is aligned to organisational priorities, national standards and legislative requirements. This collaborative approach supports the development of safe, competent and confident emergency response drivers who are equipped to deliver high-quality patient care whilst operating in demanding environments.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The team delivers a range of programmes supporting learners at various stages of their careers, from new entrants undertaking their initial emergency response driving qualification through to experienced staff completing refresher training, post-collision interventions and ongoing professional development. In addition, the team works closely with operational managers and clinical leaders to identify learning needs, support workforce development initiatives and contribute to the Trust’s wider ambitions for education, quality improvement and patient safety.
As part of Organisational Learning, the Driving Education Team is committed to fostering a culture of continuous improvement, professional excellence and lifelong learning, ensuring that all emergency response drivers maintain the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to meet the demands of modern ambulance service delivery.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Level 4 Diploma in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving Instruction (L4 DERADI)
- Emergency Driving Award (Police, Fire or NHS Ambulance)
- Assessing Award
- Teaching Qualification (Award in Education and Training (L3))
- Coaching qualification
- Diploma in Education and Teaching (L5)
Experience
- Significant operational driving and instructional experience
- Experience of delivering emergency driver training/assessment activities
Knowledge
- Knowledge required to perform as an emergency Driving Educator, to include up-to-date knowledge of Driving Standards Agency driver training requirements, and Roadcraft.
- Working knowledge of the Section 19 codes of practice
- Working knowledge of regulated qualification framework
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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 workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.
We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion – underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.
Our Vision –Respondingto patient needs in the right way,developingour organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, andcollaboratingto improve wider healthcare.
Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.
Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (All spent and unspent convictions must declared).
If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.
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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.
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