Job summary
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The Northern & Yorkshire NHS Assessment Centre (NYNHSAC) is a Regional Estates Centre based within the NTH Solutions / North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and is responsible for meeting identified training and development needs of NHS employers within the boundaries of the regional base and where necessary, national NHS employers as well.
NYNHSAC Manager, duties including budget holder, generating and managing funds required to meet the full cost of the Assessment Centre from various sources including ESFA funding, negotiate contracts on behalf of the Assessment centre, draw up SLAs, carry out monitoring audits, appoint and manage consultants and to develop reports and adapt information to meet the contractual obligations of the Assessment Centre. Work with all the NHS employers, Ofsted, NHSE, Award Bodies, EPAOs
Have knowledge and experience in estates training responsible for provide a training function across all NHS Organisations within the NYNHSAC area and for devising ongoing training / development standards and programmes to meet those standards for the NHS nationally.
Main duties of the job
The main areas of work are:-
Recruit and train estates apprentices in the occupational areas of multi-skilled engineering, medical engineering, communication engineers, plumbers, carpentry/joiners, painters and decorators and information technology.
Staff development, identifying and providing training to existing staff within the regional NHS employers wishing to pursue NVQ qualifications by providing qualifications in assessor training, IQA, customer service and engineering flexibility / upskilling.
Psychometric testing can be provided to NHS employers at A and B level, in the areas of 16pf personality tests.
NYNHSAC organises on behalf of the regional seminars to aid continuing professional development of operations staff
About us
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
North Tees & Hartlepool Solutions is an NHS owned company of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will be an employee of the subsidiary and not the NHS.
We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health & well-being initiatives and opportunities for development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition, Managers Awards and Shining Stars.
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
We recruit for values and "Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool"
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage all Assessment Centre staff and business by making decisions across a wide range of issues taking into account legislation, health and safety (particularly the additional requirements associated with young people), workforce strategy including recruitment, disciplinary action, staff development, dealing with complaints, workload allocation of employees, apprenticeship funding requirements including Ofsted, EPAO / award body requirements. Management and training of estates apprentices employed by the various NHS Employer Organisations and based within NHS Organisations within the Region, including review of progress meetings, counselling / pastoral care and dealing with any problems of competency. To analyse and interpret estates workforce strategy information from NHS employers and use that information to develop a plans and business model for the Assessment Centre responsive to the needs of internal and external customers that is cost effective and of accredited quality.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage all Assessment Centre staff and business by making decisions across a wide range of issues taking into account legislation, health and safety (particularly the additional requirements associated with young people), workforce strategy including recruitment, disciplinary action, staff development, dealing with complaints, workload allocation of employees, apprenticeship funding requirements including Ofsted, EPAO / award body requirements. Management and training of estates apprentices employed by the various NHS Employer Organisations and based within NHS Organisations within the Region, including review of progress meetings, counselling / pastoral care and dealing with any problems of competency. To analyse and interpret estates workforce strategy information from NHS employers and use that information to develop a plans and business model for the Assessment Centre responsive to the needs of internal and external customers that is cost effective and of accredited quality.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum of 5 GCSE's at Grade C or above to include English and Maths
- NVQ Level 2/3 in Procurement or Customer Care
Experience
Essential
- Use of computer packages
- Use of computerised ordering systems
- Experience in working in an office environment.
Desirable
- Experience working in the healthcare organisation
- Experience in purchasing environment
Skills/Aptitudes
Essential
- Strong customer service focus/empathy
- Good team player
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, written and verbal
- Good troubleshooting skills
- Good attention to detail - accurate
Disposition
Essential
- Able to work on own initiative
- Adaptable and flexible under pressure
- Enthusiastic and resilient
- Pleasant and helpful
- Team player
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum of 5 GCSE's at Grade C or above to include English and Maths
- NVQ Level 2/3 in Procurement or Customer Care
Experience
Essential
- Use of computer packages
- Use of computerised ordering systems
- Experience in working in an office environment.
Desirable
- Experience working in the healthcare organisation
- Experience in purchasing environment
Skills/Aptitudes
Essential
- Strong customer service focus/empathy
- Good team player
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, written and verbal
- Good troubleshooting skills
- Good attention to detail - accurate
Disposition
Essential
- Able to work on own initiative
- Adaptable and flexible under pressure
- Enthusiastic and resilient
- Pleasant and helpful
- Team player
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
