Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

HR Operations Lead

The closing date is 05 June 2025

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

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.

Deliver a recruitment infrastructure that ensures consistent and fair recruitment and selection practices which supports the Trust's diversity and inclusion agenda.

Implement and monitor performance metrics for understanding the quality and standards of our Recruitment and HR Business Support services.

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.

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

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Details

Date posted

22 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year 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

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role including person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role including person specification.

Person Specification

Experience and Work Achievements

Essential

  • Significant and demonstrable experience of workforce planning, analysing workforce information and modelling.
  • Experience of developing medium and longterm strategic plans that provide direction and governance which are in line with strategic business plans, values, and strategic vision.
  • Management and leadership of a team or teams.
  • Able to analyse, assimilate and critically evaluate complex information from multiple sources to enable effective decision making.

Knowledge and Educational Achievements

Essential

  • Masters level in Business Intelligence or another relevant discipline or the equivalent comparable industry experience (Advanced theoretical knowledge).
  • Evidence of recent and on-going continuous professional and personal development.
Person Specification

Experience and Work Achievements

Essential

  • Significant and demonstrable experience of workforce planning, analysing workforce information and modelling.
  • Experience of developing medium and longterm strategic plans that provide direction and governance which are in line with strategic business plans, values, and strategic vision.
  • Management and leadership of a team or teams.
  • Able to analyse, assimilate and critically evaluate complex information from multiple sources to enable effective decision making.

Knowledge and Educational Achievements

Essential

  • Masters level in Business Intelligence or another relevant discipline or the equivalent comparable industry experience (Advanced theoretical knowledge).
  • Evidence of recent and on-going continuous professional and personal development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Address

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust HQ

Springhill 2, Brindley Way

Wakefield

WF2 0XQ


Employer's website

https://www.yas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Address

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust HQ

Springhill 2, Brindley Way

Wakefield

WF2 0XQ


Employer's website

https://www.yas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of People Services

Tom Leach

thomas.leach3@nhs.net

07484941291

Details

Date posted

22 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year 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


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