Embrace Team Leader

Yorkshire Ambulance Service; South Yorkshire; Presencial; GBP 32 000 - 38 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Flexible working

Annual leave 27–33 days

NHS Pension

Discounts (NHS)

Car lease and salary sacrifice

Employee assistance and counselling

Career progression and development

Staff networks

Resumo da oferta

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is seeking a Team Leader for the Embrace Children’s Transport Drivers. The role focuses on supervising a frontline team, ensuring adherence to policies, and maintaining excellent service levels in collaboration with Sheffield Children’s Hospital clinicians.

You will work in shifts including nights, weekends and bank holidays, with potential hybrid working. A full C1 driving licence and blue light qualification are essential, with strong leadership and a

Qualificações

• Minimum of NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience.
• Leadership and Management Qualification or equivalent diploma.
• Full driving licence including C1 entitlement with minimal penalty points.
• IHCD/FutureQuals Level 3 blue light driver qualification.

Responsabilidades

• Monitor and supervise the performance of the Embrace Children’s Transport Drivers.
• Plan workforce to ensure efficient day-to-day operations.
• Ensure adherence to policies, governance and quality standards.
• Lead and motivate a high-performing team in a demanding ambulance setting.

Conhecimentos

Leadership

Communication

Flexibility

Teamwork

Formação académica

NVQ level 3 or equivalent

Leadership & Management Qualification

Full driving licence with C1

IHCD/FutureQuals Level 3 blue light driver

Equality & diversity knowledge

Ferramentas

Outlook

Word

Excel

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Embedded within the Embrace team, you will work closely with our partner organisation to supervise the driving team ensuring they are adheringto policies and procedures at all times. This position plays a pivotal role in maintaining good relations and harmony between Yorkshire AmbulanceService and partners involved in the delivery of the Embrace service.

As a Team Leader for the Children’s Transport Drivers, you will be a highly visible role model working in collaboration with Sheffield Children’s Hospital clinicians to provide a truly world class service.

Embrace staff work 24/7, 365 days a year, which means you will need to work flexibly, up to 12 hours at a time, including: nights, weekends and bank holidays, in all weathers.

No two shifts will be the same.

Main duties of the job

The primary focus is to monitor and supervise the performance of the team of Embrace service Children’s Transport Drivers. You will bring a structured yet agile approach to planning within your Team which will deliver real benefit to day-to-day operations.

• Can lead, motivate and inspire others in a highly specialised Emergency ambulance setting.
• Committed to ensuring equality and inclusion are imbedded within a team.
• Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative, while also working effectively as a team.

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 (salary dependent)
• 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

This is a stimulating and challenging role, but it is not for everyone. We need people that are confident, caring, compassionate and hard-working; you will be as passionate as we are about making a positive difference to the people of Yorkshire.

You will be responsible for number of frontline staff, you will ensure that your team is able to deliver services through effective workforce planning,quality, governance & risk. Working closely with the Area Operations Manager and other colleagues, you will ensure that robust policies,processes and practices are in evidence within your Team.

Full driving licence including a full C1 Licence including an emergency blue light driving qualification with no more than 3 penalty points is an essential for this role. Training may be available for successful candidates

Interviews will be held on Monday 2nd November at Embrace in Barnsley.

Skills and Compentencies

• Able to work flexibly to meet the changing needs of the service and spontaneous tasks that may arise.
• Appreciation of patients’ needs and demands.
• Highly motivated attitude towards the role and the Embrace service.

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Minimum of NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience.
• Leadership and Management Qualification or experience equivalent to diploma level.
• Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues.
• Full driving licence including C1 entitlement with no more than 3 points.
• Blue light driver trained via IHCD/FutureQuals Level 3 qualification.

Experience

• Previous experience in a similar role or an in-depth understanding of the demands and challenges working with Embrace.
• Knowledge and experience of using computer software including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel etc.
• Experience of managing staff and leading a team.

Values and Behaviours

• Able to demonstrate the YAS values.

As an employer, we value the contribution that every individual makes to the success of the organisation, and we are committed to the NHS People Plan’s and our own Trust’s shared priority of “Looking after our People” by supporting the health and wellbeing of our employees. This includes those that may face barriers and disadvantages when applying for a role, carrying out their role or progressing their career at Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust due to a disability, impairment, long term health condition or neurodivergence. The Trust can provide various workplace adjustments which will support employees and candidates to overcome those barriers.

A s an applicant, it’s important that you have the time, resources and space to fully participate. We want to support you in showing your skills, values and competencies at every stage of the recruitment process. Please contact us via email [e-mail] if you need any further support or adjustments with your application.

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”.

Our values underpin everything we do and how we do it; Kindness, Respect, Teamwork, Improvement.

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