Job summary
*Previous Applicants Need Not Apply*
* Please note that this position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship *
The Facilities Training Service is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Training Facilitator to join our dedicated and highly motivated team.
Our Facilities Teams play a vital role in ensuring the smooth operation of our hospital sites and creating a positive experience for staff, patients, and visitors alike. This role will directly support the growth and development of employees within the Division of Infrastructure, helping to maintain the highest standards of service.
Were looking for someone with a genuine passion for training and a commitment to delivering excellence. If you are highly motivated, experienced in designing and delivering engaging training programmes, and ready to make a real difference, wed love to hear from you.
Key Details:
Hours: MondayFriday, 09:0017:00 (with occasional weekend work as required)
Weekend work: Premium pay rates apply
Location: Pinderfields Hospital - with travel to our other sites essential
This is a great opportunity to use your skills to inspire others, enhance operational effectiveness, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our services.
*Please note that this advert may close early*
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the Facilities Training Manager, you will be responsible for:
Onboarding New Starters Welcoming and integrating new employees into the teams. This includes conducting first-day inductions and covering essential information about the organisation, policies, and procedures.
Delivering Functional and Mandatory Training Providing engaging and effective training for specific roles within the Facilities Department, including housekeepers, domestics, porters, and catering assistants. Training will cover the core skills, knowledge, and standards required for each role.
Collaborating on Training Delivery Working in partnership with the Facilities Training Manager to ensure the effective and consistent delivery of all training programmes.
Previous knowledge of facilities roles is not essential but would be advantageous.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- In the absence of the Facilities Manger the post holder will monitor the Facilities training inbox and respond and act upon any training requirements in a timely manner.
- Frequently deliver first day induction and functional training day two and three for new employees, frequent requirement to demonstrate using physical demonstrations including lifting, pushing and pulling of wheelchairs, beds, trollies, scrubbing machines, regen trollies and any other equipment in line with the moving and handling guidelines. At times the Facilities Trainer will work on wards mentoring new staff and staff with further training needs.
- Design, develop and deliver refresher training including stop the job and toolbox talks, daily cleaning/portering tasks on wards facilitating staff across all three sites.
- Deliver new training programmes in accordance with Trust guidelines including the national standards of cleanliness and infection, prevention and control.
- Provide mortuary training for Porters which can be distressing when placing a patient in the mortuary fridge.
- Provide support to colleagues being trained in circumstances that can rise from emotional or distressing situations.
- Deliver customer care training in line with the Trust core values. Staff may come across patients they are moving for diagnostic procedures when they have been given upsetting news.
- To provide support and guidance to the other staff trainers including coaching and guiding newly trained trainers.
- Excellent communication skills to motivate and mentor employees to ensure a supportive learning experience delivered to people with learning difficulties and where English is not there first language.
- Assist in developing the team’s strategic plan.
- Identify, implement and evaluate changes to training practices and procedures in own working area, including training programmes and discussing the reasons with the Facilities Training Manager.
- Implement policies and propose practices and procedures for the Facilities Training Department.
- The Training Facilitator will be required to have the knowledge and technical ability to be able to undertake and teach staff the skills necessary to complete service delivery.
- Ensure equipment used to deliver the service is of the standard required and is maintained to physical and technical standards.
- Monitor the Facilities Training inbox and respond and act upon any training requirements co-ordinating with the line managers and organisational development in a timely manner.
- Process all onboarding passes for new operational Facilities team employees ensuring that the new employee has everything they need for day one.
- To work without direct supervision and make day to day decisions within own remit and to use own initiative when to refer to others.
- Contribute to project activities in support of the Facilities Training team objectives.
- To be responsible for co-ordinating and booking venues and ensuring equipment is available for use.
- To assist the Facilities Manager in all aspects of project implementation as needed
- Create and provide reports/training slides to the Training Manager using Microsoft packages.
- Organise training with outside training providers specific to bespoke training.
- To support the Facilities Training Manager in planning and organising training events within the operational services.
- Take and prepare minutes for team meetings.
- To maintain effective and efficient training documents and make recommendations for improvement where appropriate.
- Ensure all Facilitators are working and following all Trust policies and guidelines plus own departmental procedures.
- Responsible for ordering non and stock items maintain and checking stock levels to reduce financial resources.
- Responsible for the safe and correct use of equipment used for training such as laptops, computers, scrubbing machines, steamers, beds, trollies, wheelchairs and regen ovens to reduce risk of damage.
- Where facility services is busy the Training Facilitators will be required to support portering and domestic services either with cleaning or moving patients.
- The Training Facilitators need to be flexible with both office/VDU and training requirements of infrastructure staff. This may mean re- evaluation of daily schedule to be respondent to individual/manager and IPC needs on either training or reports required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- In the absence of the Facilities Manger the post holder will monitor the Facilities training inbox and respond and act upon any training requirements in a timely manner.
- Frequently deliver first day induction and functional training day two and three for new employees, frequent requirement to demonstrate using physical demonstrations including lifting, pushing and pulling of wheelchairs, beds, trollies, scrubbing machines, regen trollies and any other equipment in line with the moving and handling guidelines. At times the Facilities Trainer will work on wards mentoring new staff and staff with further training needs.
- Design, develop and deliver refresher training including stop the job and toolbox talks, daily cleaning/portering tasks on wards facilitating staff across all three sites.
- Deliver new training programmes in accordance with Trust guidelines including the national standards of cleanliness and infection, prevention and control.
- Provide mortuary training for Porters which can be distressing when placing a patient in the mortuary fridge.
- Provide support to colleagues being trained in circumstances that can rise from emotional or distressing situations.
- Deliver customer care training in line with the Trust core values. Staff may come across patients they are moving for diagnostic procedures when they have been given upsetting news.
- To provide support and guidance to the other staff trainers including coaching and guiding newly trained trainers.
- Excellent communication skills to motivate and mentor employees to ensure a supportive learning experience delivered to people with learning difficulties and where English is not there first language.
- Assist in developing the team’s strategic plan.
- Identify, implement and evaluate changes to training practices and procedures in own working area, including training programmes and discussing the reasons with the Facilities Training Manager.
- Implement policies and propose practices and procedures for the Facilities Training Department.
- The Training Facilitator will be required to have the knowledge and technical ability to be able to undertake and teach staff the skills necessary to complete service delivery.
- Ensure equipment used to deliver the service is of the standard required and is maintained to physical and technical standards.
- Monitor the Facilities Training inbox and respond and act upon any training requirements co-ordinating with the line managers and organisational development in a timely manner.
- Process all onboarding passes for new operational Facilities team employees ensuring that the new employee has everything they need for day one.
- To work without direct supervision and make day to day decisions within own remit and to use own initiative when to refer to others.
- Contribute to project activities in support of the Facilities Training team objectives.
- To be responsible for co-ordinating and booking venues and ensuring equipment is available for use.
- To assist the Facilities Manager in all aspects of project implementation as needed
- Create and provide reports/training slides to the Training Manager using Microsoft packages.
- Organise training with outside training providers specific to bespoke training.
- To support the Facilities Training Manager in planning and organising training events within the operational services.
- Take and prepare minutes for team meetings.
- To maintain effective and efficient training documents and make recommendations for improvement where appropriate.
- Ensure all Facilitators are working and following all Trust policies and guidelines plus own departmental procedures.
- Responsible for ordering non and stock items maintain and checking stock levels to reduce financial resources.
- Responsible for the safe and correct use of equipment used for training such as laptops, computers, scrubbing machines, steamers, beds, trollies, wheelchairs and regen ovens to reduce risk of damage.
- Where facility services is busy the Training Facilitators will be required to support portering and domestic services either with cleaning or moving patients.
- The Training Facilitators need to be flexible with both office/VDU and training requirements of infrastructure staff. This may mean re- evaluation of daily schedule to be respondent to individual/manager and IPC needs on either training or reports required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
