Overview

Our vision for our 2024-29 strategy is clear: Great Care, Great People, Great Partner. To achieve this, we have set 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 talent in all areas of the service.

Role

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.

Responsibilities

• Act as a linchpin by using expert knowledge to guide and support managers and leaders in managing the full range of employee relations issues across the employment lifecycle.
• Collaborate across the People & OD Directorate to facilitate and deliver comprehensive people‑oriented solutions—from engagement to diversity and inclusion, health and wellbeing and culture, to recruitment and people systems.
• With support from the Senior HR Business Partner and the wider People Strategy Team, manage a HR Advisor to deliver an effective HR advisory service to a dedicated portfolio of teams and departments.
• Serve as an operational HR lead for a specific area and a leader within the team.
• Operationalise work streams to cover the entire workforce, embed good people practice, manage risk to our people and patients, and seek to improve processes.
• Develop strong relationships across the service, the team, and the Trust; champion good practice with a compassionate and supportive approach within a busy employee relations caseload; and stay aware of the broader landscape in which our services operate.
• Work with Diversity and Inclusion and Health and Wellbeing specialists to deliver a holistic approach to people management.

About Yorkshire Ambulance Service

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 including hybrid working.

Benefits

• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependent).
• 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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Application details

For full details and role responsibilities, please see the job description and person specification attached.

This advert closes on Thursday 9 Oct 2025