The Logistics Technician (ECU Education) plays a vital operational support role within the Emergency Capabilities Unit, ensuring that all specialist equipment, vehicles, and resources are maintained, safe, and ready for use in training and emergency preparedness activities. The post holder is responsible for managing a fleet of vehicles and a wide range of specialist educational and operational equipment, ensuring they are fully functional, compliant with safety standards, and available for both planned training delivery and rapid deployment when required.
This role combines logistics coordination, technical equipment management, and operational support. Key duties include conducting safety checks, maintaining asset registers, coordinating stock control, and supporting procurement processes. The technician also ensures that all equipment is cleaned, decontaminated, and prepared to meet infection prevention and control standards.
Working closely with internal teams and external suppliers, the Logistics Technician provides specialist advice on logistics and equipment management, supports major incident exercises, and facilitates the movement of equipment across sites and nationally. The role involves hands‑on physical work, including manual handling, warehouse operations, and driving vehicles (including larger vehicles where required).
Main duties of the job
As the department’s Logistics Technician, you will be responsible for maintaining highly specialist educational equipment and a fleet of vehicles. Your role will include:
- Being responsible for managing all EPRR vehicle safety checks and vehicle maintenance programmes.
- Inspecting and maintaining safety critical equipment and specialist equipment.
- Providing specialist logistics advice to various internal user groups.
- Managing equipment and vehicles in line with national Vehicle/Equipment Data Sheets.
- Facilitating the movement of specialist logistics to locations throughout the ECU site and nationally.
- Managing the cleaning and decontamination of specialist equipment.
- Updating and monitoring equipment inventories and maintaining an asset register.
- Coordinating the availability of key specialist logistics throughout the ECU site and nationally.
- Supporting procurement processes and technical evaluations of new equipment.
- Supporting the response to major and significant exercises.
- Ensuring specialist equipment is ready for educational delivery and meets the needs of learners and tutors.
About us
The principal aim of the NHS Resilience Emergency Capabilities Unit (ECU) is to support the delivery of patient care and improved clinical outcomes in a range of challenging environments across England. The unit supports NHS Trusts and partner agencies to provide an effective response to the major and complex incidents defined within the UK’s National Risk Register.
The NHS ECU is the national centre of excellence for emergency preparedness, resilience, and response across England’s ambulance services. Hosted by the London Ambulance Service and commissioned by NHS England, we are dedicated to ensuring that the NHS is ready to respond to the most complex, high‑risk, and challenging incidents—whenever and wherever they occur.
Formerly known as the National Ambulance Resilience Unit (NARU), the NHS ECU builds on over a decade of operational expertise, clinical leadership, and innovation. Our mission is to strengthen national resilience by supporting ambulance trusts and wider NHS partners with the capabilities, training, and coordination needed to deliver outstanding care in the most demanding environments.
We are proud to operate from our new base at the Fire Service College in Moreton‑in‑Marsh—a world‑class facility that enhances our ability to train, collaborate, and innovate alongside emergency service partners.
Job responsibilities
Our work is structured around three core capabilities:
- Preparedness: Ensuring our teams are ready to respond through rigorous training, clinical excellence, and strategic planning.
- Interoperability: Embedding multi‑agency collaboration into every aspect of our work, from joint training to national coordination.
- Improvement: Anticipating future risks and continuously evolving our capabilities to meet them.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), maintained independently.
- Full manual driving licence (no more than 3 penalty points).
- GCSE English and Maths C or above or 4-9 grades, Functional skills level 2, (or equivalent).
Experience
- 1 year of driving experience.
- Experience of driving larger vehicles, including an understanding of technical and operational matters relating to the use of a specialist vehicle.
- Practical experience of facility and equipment management. For example, experience of stores / logistics / warehouse work.
- Direct experience of managing technical matters relating to the storage and cleaning of equipment.
Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to relate to people from different backgrounds.
- Ability to plan effective and efficient route.
- Ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Office 365 and the use of online (cloud‑based) database software.
- Knowledge of stores / logistics.
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.
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