Position as Unit Manager Ambulance

The Ambulance Service in Vestre Viken HF is establishing a new management structure with personnel and performance responsibility at level 5 in VVHF's organizational setup.

We are looking for someone who views leadership as a discipline, and who together with us will be a driving force to ensure the ambulance service delivers good health services and is an attractive workplace for our colleagues.

We are seeking a unit manager for:

Nesbyen and Noresund

As unit manager, 50% of the position shall be office time and 50% of the position will be as operational ambulance personnel. In both the managerial part and the operative part, working time is distributed across both stations. The manager is employed as locally surplus staff at the stations and manages allocation of shifts according to need. The section is led by Syver Normann Tveito.

Station setup and working hours may change as a result of the recruitment process. Physical presence as a manager is highly prioritised and working from home is offered only exceptionally.
We work to become the best with the resources we have available towards a zero vision. Zero errors and zero harm; zero errors in patient care, as well as zero harm to patients, our own personnel, vehicles, equipment and stations. Our goal is that together we acknowledge and learn from mistakes so that through a safe reporting culture we become better step by step. 

Why work at Vestre Viken?
Through quality, safety and respect we work together to provide good and equitable health services to those who need it! 
As an employee at Vestre Viken you will become part of a solid and ambitious professional environment with varied working days. We emphasise that the professional environments should collaborate on patient care, utilise technological opportunities and share knowledge and competence between the different treatment sites. 
Vestre Viken wants our employees to reflect the diversity of the population. We therefore encourage everyone who is qualified to apply to us, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, belief, disability and sexual orientation. The same applies if you have had interruptions in your working life.

Work tasks

• Lead the section's development and progress in accordance with the department's, clinic's and enterprise's goals and strategies
• Personnel and performance responsibility in own unit
• Responsible for ensuring that the ambulances are staffed at all times in accordance with the ambulance service's current guidelines
• Follow-up of personnel, including competence development, follow-up of sick leave and care after demanding incidents
• HSE and quality work, including handling synergy reports, leading incident reviews and participating in continuous improvement work
• Project work 
• Each manager will have specific areas of responsibility for the entire ambulance service, in close dialogue with the competence section and the HSE and quality manager 
• Responsible for the upkeep of the vehicle fleet
• Contribute to innovation and the use of new technology
• Handle emergency preparedness incidents
• Some travel internally within our catchment area must be expected

Qualifications

• Lead the unit's development and progress in accordance with the section's, department's, clinic's and enterprise's goals and strategies
• Authorization as an ambulance worker, nurse or paramedic for the operative parts of the positions
• class B driving licence. class C1 driving licence and competence certificate for emergency driving for the operative parts of the positions
• It is advantageous if you can demonstrate good leadership results
• Leadership education is advantageous
• Education in ambulance-related direction beyond trade certificate (fagbrev) is advantageous

Personal qualities

We are looking for someone who knows that first-line management is about enabling people and tasks to succeed. This is the position where you must get people, operations, finances and professional practice to work together – even when considerations pull in different directions. You are someone who takes responsibility, stands firm in demanding decisions and creates results through relationships, collaboration and structure.

We offer

• Participation in the department's management group
• Opportunity to think innovatively, find sustainable solutions and lead a health service under pressure with large future demands
• You become part of an important societal mission
• Participation in the unit's management group
• Colleagues who are gladly willing to help and support you
• Employment in a large health trust that wants to develop and offer health services in new ways
• Exciting and varied tasks, with opportunities for professional and personal development
• We point out that information about applicants may be made public, even if confidential treatment has been requested. Applicants will in such case be notified in advance.

Contact information

Syver Normann Tveito, Section leader , +4746883816
Svend Espeseter, Head of department, +4792036373

Workplace

Jordeslykkja 6
3540 Nesbyen

Key information:

Employer: Vestre Viken

Referanse no.: 5185255114
position percentage: 100%
Permanent
application deadline: 15.10.2026