A logistics technician post within the NHS Emergency Capabilities Unit, which London Ambulance Service NHS Trust hosts, supporting the unit's education and training work. The role keeps specialist equipment and a vehicle fleet safe, maintained and ready for both planned training and rapid deployment. Distinct features include hands-on physical work, warehouse tasks and driving larger vehicles, with some duties carried out outdoors in bad weather. Applicants need current HCPC registration and a full manual driving licence.
What the job involves
- Manage EPRR vehicle safety checks and vehicle maintenance programmes
- Inspect and maintain safety-critical and specialist equipment
- Manage equipment and vehicles in line with national Vehicle and Equipment Data Sheets
- Coordinate the availability of key specialist logistics across the ECU site and nationally
- Move specialist logistics between locations on site and nationally
- Provide specialist logistics advice to internal user groups
- Manage the cleaning and decontamination of specialist equipment
- Update equipment inventories and maintain an asset register
- Support procurement processes and technical evaluation of new equipment
- Support the response to major and significant exercises
- Ensure specialist equipment is ready for educational delivery and meets the needs of learners and tutors
- Drive vehicles, including larger vehicles where required, and carry out manual handling and warehouse operations
What’s required
Qualifications
- GCSE English and Maths at grade C or above (or grade 4-9), or Functional Skills Level 2, or equivalent
Registration & licences
- Current HCPC registration, maintained independently
Experience
- At least one year's driving experience, including larger vehicles and the technical and operational matters of a specialist vehicle
- Practical facility and equipment management, such as stores, logistics or warehouse work
- Direct experience of managing technical matters for equipment storage and cleaning
- Experience of risk management, following a risk process in a changing environment
- Demonstrable ability to prioritise and organise high-volume workloads to deliver reports on time
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to relate to people from different backgrounds
- Ability to plan efficient routes
- Maintaining manual and electronic records, using Word, Excel, Office 365 and cloud-based database software
- Knowledge of stores and logistics, including ordering and maintaining stock
- Ability to schedule equipment maintenance
Checks & eligibility
- Full manual driving licence with no more than 3 penalty points
Other
- Ability to undertake equipment training
- Understanding of safety-critical systems and safe systems of work
- Knowledge of EPRR and of the ambulance service
Nice to have
- C1 or D1 driving licence including 7.5 tonne, and a forklift truck licence
- Experience of driving in Central London
- Experience of working in an emergency planning environment
- Adherence to the Trust values and behaviours
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise
- Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously
- Evidence of reliability
- Preparedness to work outdoors regularly in inclement weather with considerable physical effort, and to lift and carry objects up to 25 kilos daily
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
