Job overview

Our vision for our 2024-29 strategy is clear: Great Care, Great People, 
Great Partner. To achieve this, we have set ourselves four bold ambitions 
that will drive our actions and outcomes over the next five years. Our strategic framework ensures we achieve our purpose and 
vision: to deliver great care, be a great place to work and be a 
great partner to work with, guided by our values, and delivered 
through our enabling plans, ensuring everyone understands their 
role in making our bold ambitions a reality.

Our People are central to achieving this vision, and we are committed to attracting and recruiting the best talents in all areas of the service.

We have an immediate opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join us in the role of HR Business Partner, covering the maternity leave of one of the members of our great team. 

This role is a linchpin. The postholder will use expert knowledge and experience to guide and support managers and leaders in the management of the wide range of employee relations issues covering the life cycle of employment, and will work collaboratively across the People & OD Directorate to facilitate and deliver comprehensive people orientated solutions from engagement to diversity and inclusion, health and wellbeing and culture, to recruitment and people systems. 

Main duties of the job

With support from your Senior HR Business Partner, you will work within our People and Organisation Development directorate and manage a HR Advisor. You will be an operational HR lead for a specific service area and have responsibility to operationalise a work stream to cover the entire workforce. Through your work you will embed good people practice, manage risk to our people and our patients, and seek to improve our processes. 

The skills that will be of most importance are: developing good relationships across the service, the HR team and the Trust; championing good practice; plus an awareness of the broader landscape in which our services operate and being able to practice all of this in accordance with our values.

You will work alongside a great team of HR and OD professionals, as well as Diversity and Inclusion and Health and Well-being specialists within our People and OD Directorate, to deliver the best possible holistic approach to people management.

Working for our organisation

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.

We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.

We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.

Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.

Benefits:

• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes.
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.

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