Training and Engagement Manager

The West Yorkshire Staff Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub provides comprehensive mental health support to all individuals working or volunteering in health, social care, and voluntary community service organisations across West Yorkshire. Overall, the West Yorkshire Staff Mental Health &Wellbeing Hub aims to create a supportive environment for staff, addressing mental health & emotional distress, and promoting overall wellbeing through accessible, confidential, & comprehensive services to support cultural change to create compassionate cultures across the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.

The service has a number of offers to support this endeavour and is excited to offer an opportunity to join the team in a newly developed role as training and engagement manager within our preventative measures (compassionate cultures/cultural change) workstream., The service is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Training and Engagement Manager to spearhead our efforts in supporting the mental health & wellbeing of our staff.

This Band 7 role is crucial in developing & delivering effective training programs and engagement strategies that foster a culture of mental health awareness and support.One of the key area's you will be supporting is our Critical Incident Staff Support Pathway by way of engagement and training in the offer across the Health Care Partnership.

The role is home based but will require frequent travel across the footprint of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership to attend internal meetings and training and engagement opportunities to our partner organisations.

The team strives to practice what it preaches to have an internal culture of support, understanding and compassion to allow all team members to flourish, if you think you have the desire and skills to support the Health and Care Workforce of West Yorkshire to maintain their mental health and wellbeing, we would be keen to hear from you.

The role will entail a significant proportion of face-to-face work and engagement time with an anticipation of 2-3 days per week requiring travel across the across the West Yorkshire area.

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, 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 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.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.