NHS employer · Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber
Nursing careers at Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an ambulance service based in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, organisation code RX8. Below: what the published data says about this organisation, what its type means for a nursing caseload, and where the courses that feed it are taught.
What working here is like
An ambulance service provides emergency and urgent care before hospital across a whole region, together with 111, clinical assessment hubs and, in most services, a growing amount of urgent community response. It is built primarily around the paramedic workforce, and none of the five nursing fields or the nursing associate role on this site treat ambulance trusts as a primary employer.
That said, ambulance trusts do employ a small number of nurses, typically in roles such as clinical assessment hubs and 111 services rather than on operational crews. If nursing is your goal, treat an ambulance trust as an occasional, specialist option rather than a standard first-post employer — the acute, community, mental health and integrated organisation types above are where the great majority of nursing posts actually sit.
None of that is specific to Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust — it is what the organisation type tells you, and it is the part that reliably holds. The parts that vary between two organisations of the same type are the size of each ward or team, how the preceptorship year is structured, how much band 6 progression is built into the establishment, and how far apart the sites are. Those are questions for the recruitment page and for the informal visit that most nursing teams will happily arrange before you apply. Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust’s own website is the authoritative source for current vacancies and department structure.
- Organisation type
- Ambulance service
- Based in
- Wakefield
- Region
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- NHS region
- North East and Yorkshire
- Nation
- England
- ODS code
- RX8
- Pay scale that applies
- Agenda for Change 2026/27, England
- Website
- www.yas.nhs.uk
The organisation as a whole
Staff group totals as published, for context on the figures above.
| Staff group | Full-time equivalent | Headcount | As at |
|---|---|---|---|
| All staff groups | 6,405 | 7,085 | 31 December 2025 |
| Ambulance staff | 2,066.8 | 2,220 | 31 December 2025 |
| Scientific, therapeutic & technical staff | 4.9 | 8 | 31 December 2025 |
Where it is, and who trains near it
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust sits in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, within the North East and Yorkshire NHS region. Geography matters in nursing recruitment, because pre-registration courses carry a large block of supervised clinical practice and those placements are commissioned with the trusts and boards nearest the university. Students placed with an organisation know its systems, its staff and its patients before they graduate, and a substantial share of newly qualified appointments go to people who were placed there. 1 university in the Yorkshire and The Humber runs approved nursing courses.
Pay is a national question rather than a local one: Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust pays the England Agenda for Change rates for 2026/27, the same as every other NHS employer in the nation. What does vary between employers is everything around the salary: how long a rotation lasts, how much protected time you get for supervision and continuing professional development, whether band 6 progression is planned into the establishment, and how far you will drive between sites.
Universities in the Yorkshire and The Humber
The providers whose placement circuits are most likely to include this organisation.
Other NHS organisations in the Yorkshire and The Humber
The realistic alternatives if you are looking for a first post in this area — they pay the same bands, so the difference is the caseload.
How the pay ladder works here
The same four steps apply at every NHS employer; what differs is how quickly the posts come up.
Next steps
- All NHS employers — Grouped by nation and region
- England pay scales — Every band, every point
- The nursing job market — Workforce and vacancies by profession
- Universities — Where the placements come from
- The professions — What each job actually involves
- Training routes — Degree, master’s or apprenticeship
Where this page’s data comes from
- directory.spineservices.nhs.ukCited page
- yas.nhs.ukCited page
- digital.nhs.ukCited page