Job vacancy: Head of Training and Events, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield

Job summary

Main area: NOE CPC – Commercial Operations
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 173-60924-COR

Employer: Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Don Valley House
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/11/2024 23:59

Head of Training and Events

Band 8b

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As the Head of Training and Events, you will be at the forefront of developing and implementing a comprehensive training strategy. Your key responsibilities will include:

Leading a small team of training and event professionals.
Designing and delivering high-quality procurement training programs.
Being the face of NOECPC at events and in the media.
Collaborating with stakeholders to identify training needs and opportunities.
Ensuring all training materials are current and relevant to the evolving NHS procurement landscape.
Organising and managing training events to ensure they run smoothly and effectively.
For full details please view the Job Description and Person Specification, available to download directly from this advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

5 GCSEs at Grade C or equivalent including Mathematics and English

Knowledge, Procurement

Essential criteria

MCIPS

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria

Demonstratable experience of creating content and delivering in-person and online to procurement professionals or equivalent experience
Experience of organising, building content and hosting large successful events.

Attributes

Essential criteria

Excellent communication skills with the ability to demonstrate flexibility and high standards of customer service when dealing with the senior team, the wider Commercial Operations Team and external/internal stakeholders and members.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1^st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.

In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

In submitting an application for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.

If you have not received any further communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.