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Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Contributory Pension

Car lease and other salary deduction

Job summary

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is recruiting Ambulance Support Workers to respond to emergency calls with a paramedic, helping deliver lifesaving care and patient transport across North, South, East and West Yorkshire.

Successful applicants will undertake a Level 3 Ambulance Support Worker Apprenticeship, with progression opportunities to become HCPC-registered paramedics. A demanding but rewarding role requiring flexibility across days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.

Qualifications

• Be confident, caring and hardworking with a genuine passion for helping others.
• Hold and provide evidence of 3 GCSEs at grade 4/C or above, including English and Mathematics, plus one other GCSE or equivalent.
• Must have or be eligible for the C1 driving category and be prepared to obtain it before induction.

Responsibilities

• Respond to emergency calls alongside a paramedic to provide patient care.
• Attend a wide range of incidents across Yorkshire and support patient transport where needed.
• Demonstrate professionalism, compassion and respect when dealing with patients and colleagues.

Skills

Emergency response driving

Compassionate care

Teamwork

Education

GCSEs

Level 3 Ambulance Support Worker Apprenticeship

Job description

This vacancy is for a number of positions throughout Yorkshire, covering North, South, East and West Yorkshire.

An Ambulance Support Worker (ASW) responds to emergency calls alongside a paramedic, helping them to provide patients with potentially life-saving care and, where needed, getting patients to hospital. They attend every kind of accident and emergency, sometimes covering considerable distances, using expert emergency driving skills to get to the scene with the greatest speed possible.

The role of ASW can provide an excellent opportunity to further develop a career in healthcare and within Yorkshire Ambulance Service. You will be required to undertake aLevel 3 Ambulance Support Worker Apprenticeship. This is a nationally recognised qualification that demonstrates your operational competency in the care field. Following successful completion, it will enable you to benefit from career progression within the Trust, including development opportunities to become aHCPC-registered paramedic.

Please note:This vacancy is open to applicants seeking a base station throughoutNorth, South, East and West Yorkshire. Applicants should apply for their preferred base location within Yorkshire.

We are looking for people who areconfident, caring, compassionate and hardworking, with a genuine passion for making a positive difference to the lives of people across Yorkshire. The role requires flexibility, and you will be expected to work a variety of shifts, includingdays, nights, weekends and bank holidays.

This is astimulating, rewarding and challenging role, and it is important to recognise that it is not a career path for everyone. No two shifts will ever be the same. You could find yourself responding to a road traffic collision involving patients with multiple serious injuries, or supporting the transfer of a critically ill baby to a specialist treatment centre.

As an Ambulance Support Worker, you will be ahighly visible representative and role model for Yorkshire Ambulance Service. The way you communicate and conduct yourself is just as important as the care you provide. You will be expected to demonstrate professionalism, compassion and respect when working with patients, members of the public and colleagues.

As part of the role, you will be required to demonstrate and maintain aconsistently high standard of emergency drivingin accordance with UK national standards. You will also be required to successfully complete theLevel 3 Emergency Ambulance Response Driving qualification, developing the specialist driving skills needed to safely respond to emergency incidents and transport patients.

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 values:Kindness, Respect,Teamwork and Improvementare at the heart of all we do.

What we can offer you:

• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service plus bank holiday entitlement
• Contributory Pension
• Car lease and other salary deduction schemes
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service

Before applying, please ensure you carefully read the following information:

C1 Driving Licence:

As this is an emergency response driving role, it is essential that you hold a full UK driving licence withno more than 3 penalty points. You will also be required to hold theC1 categoryon your driving licence.

Applications will be accepted from candidates who have not yet obtained their full C1 category. However, youmust have obtained your C1 category before you can be booked onto an induction course.

If you are interested in this role and have not yet obtained yourC1 provisional entitlement, we strongly recommend that you apply for this as soon as possible. Doing so early will help to avoid delays and save time during the recruitment process. Further information regarding the C1 requirement and process will be provided at the interview stage.

Essential Qualifications:

At the time of application, youmust hold and be able to provide official certificate evidence of 3 GCSEs at grade 4/C or above, includingEnglish and Mathematics, plusone other GCSE, or equivalentFunctional Skills Level 2 qualifications.

Your official qualification certificates must be available at the application stage.Your application willnot be progressed or reviewedif you are unable to provide the required certificate evidence at this stage.

If you do not currently have your official certificates, you should contact the relevant examination board(s) to obtain replacement certificates or official confirmation of your qualifications.Please note that if you are unable to provide the required evidence at the application stage, you should not apply until you are able to do so.

Recruitment and Induction:

Interviews will take place from January 2027, with successful candidates expected to commence induction and training from April 2027 onwards.

This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Oct 2026