Ambulance Support Worker - (Apprenticeship) | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,937 - £26,598 Per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 27 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | East and North Yorkshire, YO31 9FD |
| Cwmni: | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7622815/174-ASWNE-241125 |
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This vacancy is for a number of positions throughout North and East 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 a Level 3 Ambulance Support Worker Apprenticeship. This is a nationally recognised qualification that demonstrates your operational competency in the care field. Following successful completion of this it will enable you to benefit from career progression within the Trust, including development opportunities to become a HCPC registered paramedic.
Please note:This vacancy is only for North and East Yorkshire base stations. If you are seeking a base outside of these areas in South or West Yorkshire, please wait to apply to the vacancy relevant to your preferred location.
We are looking for 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 required to work flexible shifts including days/nights/weekends and bank holidays.
This is a stimulating and challenging role, but it is not for everyone. No two shifts will be the same; you might respond to a road accident victim with multiple severe injuries or be required to transfer a very sick baby to a specialist treatment centre.
As an Ambulance Support Worker, you will be a highly visible role model, not only in respect of what you do, but also in the way you conduct yourself with our patients, the public and colleagues.
As part of this role you will be required to provide a consistently high standard of driving skills to UK national standards and be able to successful complete a level 3 in Emergency Ambulance Response Driving.
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 Improvement are at the heart of all we do.
What we can offer you:
• Great staff networks
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service plus bank holiday entitlement
• Contributory Pension
• NHS Discounts
• Car lease and other salary deduction schemes
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the job and personal requirements.
As this is a driving role it is essential you have a full driving licence (with no more than 3 penalty points) and include full C1 category on your licence.
Applications will be accepted from candidates that have not yet obtained the C1 category, however, the C1 category must be obtained in order to book your place on an induction course. Further details will be shared with you at the interview stage.
Applicants must hold at time of application 3 GCSEs (grade 4/C or above) and must include Maths and English, or equivalent Functional Skills Level 2. Youmust be able to provide certificate evidence at the interview stage.
This apprenticeship offersLevel 3 Ambulance Support Worker ApprenticeshipThis is a nationally recognised qualification, structured training, hands-on experience, career development, NHS pension and staff benefits.
Successful candidates will undertake a 12-week full-time training course which includes 8 weeks of clinical training and 4 weeks of emergency response driver training. Training courses are located across Yorkshire.
Apply nowto start your career in emergency care and help make a real difference every day.
Interviews will take place in January in the relevant areas, we anticipate interview locations to be York for North Yorkshire and Hull for East Yorkshire.
Be the difference. Be part of Team YAS.
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Dec 2025