Job Description
Are you looking for a role that provides flexible working, new skills, knowledge and experience? An opportunity has arisen for a experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated administrator to support the West Yorkshire Allied Health Professional (AHP) Faculty, hosted within Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust.
The role includes administrative support to the West Yorkshire AHP Faculty. The AHP Faculty provides a system wide, structured approach towards addressing workforce and education challenges and supports organisations and partners across the West Yorkshire Integrated Care System. To find out more about the role of the AHP Faculty, please watch this short video: https://youtu.be/Qsg-XcbZ8ME
The team supports and advocates for flexible working. The role will be predominantly working from home.
You will work as part of a team to provide an efficient and effective administration service to the West Yorkshire AHP Faculty under the direction and guidance of the AHP Faculty Leads, supported by an agreed Job Plan.
This role depends on the post holder having good communication skills. They will communicate with all grades of staff and external agencies including NHS Trusts, organisations and University sector. They will need to demonstrate:
- empathy
- assistance
- active listening
- confidence
- person awareness skills
- negotiating skills
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the [email protected]
The post holder will work across the nine organisations across West Yorkshire, so will need to be skilled in communicating with a range of staff at varying levels both within the organisation and with external staff.
The post holder will organise training events, meeting schedules and other events as required. They will manage their own diaries. They will organise meetings involving senior staff, and leads from external agencies, representatives for other agencies, and clinical staff. The post holder will be required to take minutes of meetings.