Ambulance trust event to recruit apprentices

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, which provides both 999 emergency and patient transport services across the whole Yorkshire region, has organised the event at the Lifewise Centre in Rotherham.

The trust said it was looking to recruit apprentices in a number of areas, including in its patient transport department, which takes eligible non-emergency patients to and from hospital and clinic appointments

Trust spokesman Julie Frampton said: “This is an ideal first step to working within the ambulance service and I would encourage anyone interested to come along to the event to find out more.

“The scheme is a training opportunity specifically for people wishing to learn new skills and at the end of the course successful apprentices will have achieved an NVQ, and a technical certificate.

“Successful apprentices are then eligible to apply for jobs within the trust.

“We are committed to the training and development of our workforce and the apprenticeship scheme is another important step in ensuring a future generation of ambulance staff.”

The open evening will be held between 4 and 8pm and will give potential recruits the opportunity to look around emergency vehicles, talk to ambulance staff and current and past apprentices.

The trust offers apprenticeships in frontline operational services, communications and support.

Trust bosses said that to date, eight communications apprentices and twenty-one operational apprentices have completed the course, with nine due to finish the latest course in September 2012.

More details about the event are available from either Gillian Dyson, apprentice staff development officer, via [email protected] or on 07789 867908 or Sam Wilby on 01924 584041 or [email protected]