Forget the rest - and join the best - Working together for Outstanding Care.

We currently have a permanent full time vacancy based at either Princess of Wales Community Hospital or Worcester area, working 25 hours per week shift pattern flexible, but working between the hours of 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday.

We have supportive and passionate teams, and you will receive full training to ensure you can succeed in this role.

These are exciting opportunities to work within a busy and varied environment, working alongsideour clinical and other non-clinical colleagues to make a positive contribution to our patients and staff experience.

These are some of the benefits you will be entitled to should you work for us

Competitive pay with weekend enhancements

Generous annual leave up to 32 days per annum dependent upon contracted hours and length of service.

Flexible hours to suit other employment and carer responsibilities.

Career progression or future job opportunities working direct for the NHS.

Extensive training and support available

NHS pension and life assurance provisio n

Other staff benefits include:

Free/reduced car parking is available on most sites

Health and Wellbeing packages available

Seasonal incentive schemes

Application for this role will be considered in adherence to the Working Time Regulations this will be discussed with you during interview.

Main duties of the job

We pride ourselves on providing friendly, customer focused and caring Facilities services across two countries, with front-line services including housekeeping, linen/laundry, catering, transport, portering, uniform provision, switchboard, and various back-office roles to support these teams.

Join our team, we pride ourselves in providing outstanding care to patients across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long-term career to include flexibility, continual professional development as well as a wide range of wellbeing and support.

The role is an exciting opportunity which will provide essential support to senior leaders in Facilities services as they continue to develop and improve the services they are responsible for. Your duties will include working across multiple teams to deliver specific projects as defined by the senior management team. Your duties will extend to working both independently and as part of a team to coordinate and deliver projects, managing large amounts of data. Excellent people skills and communication are critical to the success of the role, along with being able to manage and produce both qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions and include in reporting using multiple MS Office applications. The role is varied as no two days are the same.

In return, you will receive full support, training and guidance to enable you to fulfil the role and undertake these duties.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service

Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

Flexible and agile working opportunities

Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or qualification to an equivalent level
• Training and experience relevant to the role to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer

Desirable

• Prince 2 foundation

Experience

Essential

• Experience of supporting the management of projects and change programmes
• Experience of working with other agencies
• Relevant experience in core areas gained through previous employment
• Word Processing
• Use of Microsoft Office
• Drafting reports and plans
• Knowledge of current NHS issues
• Knowledge of data analysis
• Service redesign management methodology
• Word processing packages
• Spread sheet packages
• Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint

Desirable

• The use of Prince2
• The use of project management tools and techniques
• NHS / Customer service experience

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role
• Ability to generate and present reports and documents to a wide audience

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Princess Of Wales Community Hospital

Stourbridge Road

Bromsgrove

Worcestershire

B61 0BB

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C9798-0667