Job vacancy: Make Ready Quarter Master, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Various

Job summary

Main area: Make Ready
Grade: none
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 31.5 hours per week
Job ref: 308-CORP-2859

Employer: London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Various positions
Town: Various
Salary: £22,816 - £24,336 per hour non AFC terms & conditions
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/07/2024 08:00

Make Ready Quarter Master

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London Ambulance Service covers an area of 620 sq. miles, serves one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities and is the busiest ambulance service in the UK. We handle over 1.9 million emergency calls from across the capital and attend more than 1.2 million incidents every single year as well as delivering a 24 hour NHS 111 Integrated Urgent Care Service in South East and North East London that we estimate will respond to around 1.4million urgent care calls by the end of the year.

We employ over 9,000 people who work or volunteer across London to respond to the health needs of over eight million people who live, work and travel in the capital. We work closely with our NHS partners and are commissioned by 32 clinical commissioning groups spread across 5 sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) and NHS England for our specialist services. We work alongside London’s hospital, mental health and specialist trusts, as well as the five STPs across Greater London.

In addition we work in partnership with the other emergency services, London’s Air Ambulance and London’s Resilience Forums to make sure we are ready and prepared to respond to major incidents and ensure we keep Londoners safe. As the only pan-London NHS provider we have a unique opportunity to play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care right across London.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be required to administer regular check and keep an up to date record
log to ensure that all vehicle and equipment is road worthy, and that all operational vehicles
have been deep cleaned in accordance with vehicle servicing scheduling. ● Responsible for making sure equipment, materials and systems are available and functioning for operational duties.
● Ensuring that all strands of communication and action are collated to maintain and develop
the service in line with service specification.
● To control the equipment and consumables store and movements of inventory to support
vehicle preparation.
● To ensure the operation runs smoothly, efficiently and that contractual obligations are met
● Identifying and resolving missing equipment, faulty equipment and report back on a daily
basis to the helpdesk and management team.
● To monitor, review and track the equipment, using our computer system
● Responsible for the equipment storeroom, ensuring that no unauthorized person will be
allowed to access the stores unless accompanied by the.
● Ensuring regular inventory checks are conducted and feedback discrepancies on a daily
basis to the LAS representative and to Line Manger.
● The post holder will be general responsible for the running of the equipment stores including
the maintaining inventory at the hub location, has well as when new equipment is purchase,
checking the delivery. Ensuring that all new equipment is asset tag and checked into the
inventory.
● The roles has responsibility, maintaining and keep up to date all relevant documentation
relating to the equipment store and equipment contained within hubs

Provide an effective handover of prepared vehicles with the service desk and the VP TL.
 Coordinate vehicle movements between main hub and satellites, to ensure that all vehicles
swaps are maintained and planned vehicle for day/night shift.
 Check vehicles back in following shifts noting any missing or faulty equipment.  On a daily basis, to inform Staff/VRC/Service Desk of any defects of any service vehicles and/or equipment.

Assist in the recruitment of staff under your control  Engage in the YVC process and promote participation from all staff
 Ensure all staff are appraised annually via the ‘PDR’ process and are given regular feedback
and the opportunity to develop and be mentored.

To report directly to the Operational and Sector Supply Managers from within the department on the Make Ready function.
 To ensure that all accidents and incidents are reported on monthly bases to the operational
and sector supply managers  Regularly check and report any hazardous, dangerous, loss/damage or defective equipment, vehicles on premises, in use or practices.  Escalate to operational management any abuse of services Abuse of the Services.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Current UK Driving Licence full manual driving licence (no more than 3 penalty points).
C1 Category on your license which is valid within the UK.
Good Standard of Education – minimum of 3 GSES ( or equivalent) at grade C to include English and Maths

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working within a public service or customer care environment
Ability to build up good relationships with internal customers and staff at all levels and deal with staff issues in sensitive manner

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Excellent communication and organisational skills with strong attention to detail
A leader and team players with good interpersonal skills

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is a member of the Business Disability Forum and is a Disability Confident Employer.

For more information on our equalities strategy, please visit our website and review our current equalities strategy.

In addition to the basic salary for all Agenda for Change posts, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust in line with the NHS Agenda for Change provides 15% or 20% High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) dependant on the location of your role. The supplement is subject to minimum and maximum payment.

High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) for part time employee will be based on the part time salary.

Correspondence regarding an application will be done via email to all job applicants. Please ensure you provide current e-mail address on the job application form and please check your email inbox and junk mail regularly.

If you are successful at interview and offered employment, your personal details will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Pre-employment checks will be required for all applicants who are issued with a conditional offer of employment. This includes Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) checks as required for the post and registration with the DBS update service. Documents presented for the purpose of Identity Checks will be verified for authenticity via an ID Scanner. The security features to be checked include machine readable zone, ultra violet image and infra-red image.

The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust reserves the right to close adverts before the published closing date due to high volumes of applications received.

If you do not hear back from us within four weeks of the advert closing date, please assume that you have not been successful at the shortlisting stage.