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Main area HR Grade Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term Maternity Leave Cover) Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Other
37.5 hours per week (Variable) Job ref 174-HRBP-220825
Site Trust HQ with flexibility to work from other sites and home Town Wakefield Salary £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/09/2025 23:59 Interview date 10/09/2025
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.
* 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.
* 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details and role responsibilities, please see the job description and person specification attached.
Person specification
Experience and achievements
* Significant experience of advising senior leaders of the organisation on a broad range of people matters, balancing risk, legal compliance with business need
* Experience of managing multiple complex ER cases.
* Experience of working in partnership with Trade union representatives towards shared goals and achieving organisational outcomes
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to assess and recommend appropriate courses of action on complex, specialist HR issues requiring analysis, interpretation, and compare a range of options.
* Ability to plan, prioritise, communicate and deliver against personal and team objectives and work plans.
* Able to work well both independently and as part of a team, ensuring team goals are met
Knowledge and education
* Educated to master's degree level or significant demonstrable equivalent
* CIPD Associate Membership/Level 5 (or working towards)
* Thorough up-to-date knowledge of employment law, ACAS Code of Practice and employee relations processes.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce which reflects the communities and patients we serve across the Yorkshire region. Our ambition is to work together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts candidates from all sections of the community and signals our commitment to embracing diversity and promoting inclusivity.
As an inclusive organisation we welcome applicants irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people with lived experienced from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, people from the LGBT+ community, people with caring responsibilities and people with disabilities. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including an invitation to the first stage of the selection process, for applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy, and consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability under the “Disability Confident Scheme”.
Please note that the salary range stated in advertisements is calculated on a pro-rata basis if the vacancy is part-time. For zero-hours/bank worker positions, this is calculated on an hourly basis.
Please note that certain benefits may differ for zero hours (bank) workers, including annual leave entitlement which is calculated in line with Working Time Directive regulations.
Disclosure and Barring Service
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of children & vulnerable adults. Many of our posts are subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service check (DBS). Should this position be subject to a DBS check the cost will be recovered from your salary as a one-off payment. Currently the charges made by the Disclosure and Barring Service (incl. application fee) are £54.40 for an enhanced check and £26.40 for a standard check.
Any correspondence regarding an application will be sent electronically via the Trac Jobs Website to the email address that was provided at the time of the application. It is important, therefore, that you read your emails on a regular basis and respond as necessary.
The Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust reserves the right to close adverts before the published closing date due to high volumes of applications received.
Please note, the selection processes at Yorkshire Ambulance Service are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.
Our values underpin everything we do and how we do it; Kindness, Respect, Teamwork, Improvement.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Name Jack Sunderland Job title Senior HR Business Partner Email address Jack.Sunderland@nhs.net Additional information
This vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received.
For further details or an informal conversation, please contact:
Jack Sunderland, Senior HR Business Partner at jack.sunderland@nhs.net
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