Job summary
Are you ready to lead and innovate in the field of HR Operations? Join us as HR Operations Lead at the Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. This pivotal role focuses on managing Recruitment, People Systems, and HR Business Support functions, ensuring the optimisation of systems and processes to deliver exceptional HR advice and transactional services.
As HR Operations Lead, you will oversee the development of robust systems and processes, enhancing the functionalities of our HR operations. Your expertise will be crucial in delivering high-quality HR advice and transactional services, ensuring that all employees experience a seamless, values-based employment journey from entry to exit.
You will also be responsible for driving the recruitment and resourcing strategic priorities, ensuring the Trust attracts and retains the right talent. By collaborating with HR and service line leads, you will identify staffing requirements and organisational skill needs, aligning them with our operational goals.
Your role will also involve monitoring and analysing key workforce metrics, providing regular reports to senior management, and supporting the development of a long-term workforce plan across the Trust.
Join us and make a significant impact by optimising our HR systems and processes, ensuring we have the right people in the right roles at the right time.
Main duties of the job
1. Lead with compassion and line manage the Recruitment, HR Business Support and People Systems teams in the delivery, development and maintenance of all transactional HR services covering the end-to-end employee lifecycle.
2. Deliver a recruitment infrastructure that ensures consistent and fair recruitment and selection practices which supports the Trust's diversity and inclusion agenda.
3. Implement and monitor performance metrics for understanding the quality and standards of our Recruitment and HR Business Support services.
4. Lead and collaborate with Service Leads and Scheduling teams in developing and maintaining the Trust's 5-year workforce plan, ensuring that the Trust has the right people with the right skills at the right time, while also considering workforce changes to align staff demand with supply.
5. Provide clear and comprehensive workforce and business planning information to Senior Leaders to support Trust's Business Planning submissions.
About us
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust 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, along with over 1,300 volunteers, providing a vital 24/7 emergency and healthcare service. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are committed to improving our offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits, and flexible working, including hybrid options.
Benefits include flexible working options, 27 days annual leave (rising to 33), contributory pension, NHS discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, employee assistance, career development opportunities, and supportive staff networks.
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Details
Date posted: 22 May 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £53,755 to £60,504 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number: 174-HROL-210525
Job locations: Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust HQ, Springhill 2, Brindley Way, Wakefield, WF2 0XQ
Job description
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role including person specification.
Person Specification
Experience and Work Achievements (Essential):
* Significant experience in workforce planning, analysing workforce data, and modelling.
* Experience in developing strategic plans aligned with business values and vision.
* Management and leadership of teams.
* Ability to analyse complex information for decision making.
Knowledge and Educational Achievements (Essential):
* Masters level in Business Intelligence or relevant discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
* Ongoing professional development evidence.
Additional notes regarding DBS checks and sponsorship are included in the original description.
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