Yorkshire Ambulance Service Nhs jobs in Wakefield

Contact information

Head of Resilience, Balvinder Singh Bains:

Email: balvinder.bains1@nhs.net

Call: 01924 541969

About the role

Join a team that helps ensure Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is prepared for whatever challenges come its way. This role offers the opportunity to support major projects, work with a wide range of NHS and emergency service partners, and contribute to the Trust's emergency preparedness and resilience.

Under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, the Trust has a statutory duty as a Category 1 responder. Within the health sector, this work is known as Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR).

The EPRR Office maintains a strategic overview of resilience arrangements across the Trust and supports hospital services to respond effectively to incidents and emergencies.

If you're organised, motivated and looking for a role where your work genuinely makes a difference, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

Main duties

The post holder will be responsible for day-to-day administrational duties in the office for EPRR. This will include scheduling relevant governance and steering group meetings, supporting the Head of Resilience with arranging training and exercising, managing specialist resources such as the Incident Coordination Centre (ICC) and taking notes and replying to correspondence.

You will be the point of contact for external suppliers of specialist equipment and managing the required preventative programme of maintenance (PPM) schedules for resources that are required in the event of an emergency.

You will be in daily contact with internal colleagues and senior executives from across the Trust, supporting them with managing their plans and procedures and ensuring stakeholders are kept informed of developments. The post holder will also be working with partners from across the Integrated Care System (ICS), local authorities and blue light (emergency) services.

Essential person specification requirements

Qualifications

• Word processing or equivalent qualification or experience
• Sound educational background (4 GCSE’s grade C or above)
• IT qualifications e.g. ECDL or equivalent

Experience

• Experience and knowledge of multi-disciplinary team working
• Administrative or secretarial experience
• Experience of working with IT systems
• Experience of good customer or patient care
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint), MS Teams, e-mail and internet
• Experience of scheduling/co-ordination activities and/or resources

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application guidance:
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Our benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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