Duty Commander – Derbyshire: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Job summary

We are hiring for 2 permanent and 1 6-month secondment.

Please note that interviews for this role are expected to take place over several days between 24th August and 4th September. We kindly ask applicants to ensure they are available during this period before applying. Unfortunately, if you are unavailable throughout these dates, we may not be able to progress your application further on this occasion.

At East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, we are committed to delivering excellent patient care and exploring opportunities for continuous service delivery improvements.

As part of our Reshaping Operations programme, a new role of Duty Commander has been established and we are now looking to recruit experienced operational and command focused leaders to the roles across all Divisions within EMAS. The role will be accountable to the Divisional Senior Manager (Planning) but also forms key relationships with the area management teams (Heads of Operations, Station Managers and Divisional Senior Clinical Leaders) and the Regional Operations Manager team.

Main duties of the job

As a Duty Commander you will be responsible for establishing and embedding a supportive, motivational and compassionate leadership culture across the station based operational teams. This is a key leadership role in supporting EMAS to deliver its vision and values.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Operational or Duty Command qualification, or will complete Duty level within 12 months of commencement in role.
  • On-going CPD around National Occupational Standards Major Incident Management
  • Appropriate level registered clinical qualification, e.g. Paramedic, ECP and ability to act as a first responder
  • Management diploma or equivalent demonstrable experience

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years supervising/managing a team
  • Working on own initiative to deliver Trust and national polices and guidelines
  • Full driving licence including the provision of emergency driving
  • Completed NQP period within Ambulance sector

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 16 August 2026

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