Regional Estates Training & Development Manager

North Tees & Hartlepool Solutions; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS organization in Tees Valley is seeking a manager for their Assessment Centre to oversee staff, manage budgets, and train apprentices. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal and communication skills, a minimum of 5 GCSEs, and relevant NVQ qualifications. This role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to contribute to the development of NHS staff.

Benefits

Health & well-being initiatives

Opportunities for development

Staff recognition programs

Responsibilities

• Manage Assessment Centre staff and business
• Recruit and train estates apprentices
• Ensure compliance with legislation and health & safety requirements

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Troubleshooting skills

Education

Minimum of 5 GCSE's at Grade C or above including English and Maths

NVQ Level 2/3 in Procurement or Customer Care

Job description

Advert may close early if sufficient applications are received

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, 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 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

• 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

• Use of computer packages
• Use of computerised ordering systems
• Experience in working in an office environment.
• Experience working in the healthcare organisation
• Experience in purchasing environment
• Good team player
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, written and verbal
• Good troubleshooting skills

Disposition

• 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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearpro rata per annum