PTS Ambulance Care Assistant North Yorkshire - 0 Hour contract

Would you like to be part of a team delivering an invaluable service to the patients within the North Yorkshire region? We are looking for candidates to be based at stations in York, Scarborough, Harrogate & Northallerton. Would you like to work for an ambitious and challenging organisation which will share your passion for high quality patient care?

We are currently recruiting for Patient Transport Service (PTS) Ambulance Care Assistants, zero hour positions, who share a value and belief in delivering the highest standards of quality service and patient care.

• Responsible for the care and safe transportation of non-emergency PTS patients.
• Ensuring timely transportation to and from appointments at hospitals, treatment centres, day units or other places of care.
• At all times the post holder must ensure patient safety and reduction in harm to patients, self, colleagues, and others by assessing risks and adopting safe working practices.

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.

• 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.
• 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.

For full details and role responsibilities including the person specification, please see the attached job description.

If you have previously applied and were unsuccessful at the assessment or interview stage, we kindly ask that you wait three months before reapplying. The interview shortlisting will be based on the same criteria as the last recruitment cycle; therefore, we recommend giving yourself at least three more months to allow time to build on your skills and experience, supporting your chances of success in future recruitment cycles.

For the purpose of this job, equivalent experience would be defined as having worked for a minimum of 2 years in a Band 2 PTS Driver post.

• Essential: Level 2 entry requirement e.g. 3 GCSEs grade A*-C or NVQ level 2 qualification or equivalent experience
• Desirable: Evidence of ongoing continuous professional development
• Essential: Ability to carry out manual handling including the lifting of patients and equipment
• Essential: Basic IT skills e.g. word, e-mail
• Essential: Full driving licence with no more than three penalty points for new entrants to YAS or a maximum of six for existing YAS employees
• Essential: Able to work as part of a team
• Essential: Background in a customer or patient orientated field

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.