Driving Education Lead
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
The Driving Education Lead will work within an educational leadership team and is primarily responsible for the management of development, delivery and overall quality assurance of driver training interventions, assessments and accident reduction incentives to meet organisational needs and initiatives.
This is achieved through the day-to-day management of the Driving Education Team, which provides leadership, expert knowledge, skill, and direction in the design, implementation, and evaluation of driving education.
Main duties of the job- To take responsibility as part of the Organisational Learning team for providing professional education, training and learning opportunities within the Trust’s driving activities.
- To work in collaboration with Operational and Fleet management colleagues to provide educational opportunities that will contribute to improve the quality of driving standards through improved driver education.
- To supply specialist educational support and guidance to Operational Management and their team members in order to improve the standards of driving within divisions and facilitate the continuing professional development of staff.
- To facilitate and support the development of Trust Driving Educators in the application of the requirements of the high speed driving elements of the Road Traffic Act and wider accident reduction initiatives within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
You will need to embrace the EMAS Trust values and be committed to developing and delivering high-quality clinical education that is student-focused.
The post holder will be required to work across all 3 of our Education Centres across the East Midlands:
- Oak House Education Centre (Lincoln, LN6 3LH)
- The Rosings Education Centre (Leicester, LE19 3EQ)
- Clifton Education and Development Centre, Nottingham Trent University (Nottingham, NG11 8NS)
We are open to negotiating your choice of predominant base out of the three centres above.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See the attached job description but the main purpose of the job
As part of a shared leadership team:
To ensure effective management of driving education provision within divisions and associated education facilities
To implement and monitor quality assurance processes within driving education, to ensure compliance with internal and external standards
To take responsibility for the development, implementation and evaluation of education, training and professional development
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Level 4 Diploma Emergency Response Ambulance Driving Instructor or other Emergency Service equivalent
- Driving Standards Agency Approved Driving Instructor
- Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training
- Level 4 Internal Quality Assurance
- Level 4 Qualification in Coaching
- Level 5 Qualification in Leadership / Management
- Level 3 First Response Emergency Care (FREC)
- Educated to degree level or evidence of working at that level
- Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of delivering driving education preferably in the emergency services sector
- Experience of working in learning and development
- Experience of leading a team of driving educators, ideally within an emergency service
- Minimum of 2 years operational experience in an emergency service
The East Midlands has a lot to offer:
Excellent Location
Making a Difference
Action Packed Roles
Support and Belonging
Note on Covid-19 Vaccination status:
It is a clear professional responsibility of all health care staff to be vaccinated. EMAS NHS Trust therefore encourages and supports all employees to be vaccinated as it remains the best line of defence against COVID 19.
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 - Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to 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.