HART Team Leader

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Yorkshire for the vacancy of HART Team Leader.

As a HART Team Leader you will play a central role in safeguarding the public during the most challenging and complex incidents in our region. From major emergencies and mass-casualty events to hazardous environments and specialist rescue scenarios, you will guide and inspire a highly skilled team of HART Operatives and Specialist Paramedics--ensuring they are ready, capable, and confident every single day.

This is a role for someone who leads from the front: clinically strong, operationally confident, and committed to delivering excellence in the most extreme circumstances. You'll be responsible for operational readiness, staff welfare, strategic deployment, and maintaining national standards set by ECU.

You'll act as the driving force behind your team--supporting development, assuring competency, shaping service improvements, and representing the unit locally and nationally. From live incidents to training, governance, strategic planning, and mentoring, you will influence every aspect of our capability to respond when people need us most.

If you are passionate about leadership, motivated by challenge, and excited by the opportunity to make a measurable difference in emergency preparedness and response-- Please apply now.

Main duties of the job

The Main duties of the HART Team Leader:

• Lead, manage and support HART operatives to maintain high clinical and operational standards
• Coordinate HART deployment at incidents, ensuring staff safety, effective response, and multi-agency collaboration.
• Maintain team readiness through competency management, training oversight, audits and compliance with ECU and EPRR standards.
• Communicate complex information, deliver briefings, and lead/participate in debriefs to support organisational learning.
• Oversee staffing, scheduling, documentation, governance activities and adherence to Trust policies.
• Manage resources including vehicles, equipment, information systems and financial responsibilities such as timesheets and procurement.
• Conduct investigations, audits and service improvement work to ensure quality and safety.
• Support safeguarding responsibilities for children and vulnerable adults.
• Act as deputy for the HART & Special Operations Area Manager when required and support wider A&E operations.

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.