Call Centre Manager Integrated Urgent Care (111) at Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS)
12 Month Secondment/Fixed term - Maternity Cover
Full time (37.5 hours per week) based at our Wakefield Call Centre (Wakefield 41 Business Park)
Help us to deliver the best possible care to our patients
As an Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) Call Centre Manager (CCM), you will be responsible for providing senior leadership in the IUC call centres, nurturing a culture of openness which supports individuals to deliver a high quality service for patients across Yorkshire and Humber.
The attitudes and behaviours demonstrated and lived within the role will be as important as results. It is essential for the Call Centre Manager to be flexible in their approach to managing the day to day running of busy call centres, ensuring that the service is best set to meet the needs of patients. This will need to be underpinned by strong, person-centred management, and the ability to inspire, guide and support staff and their personal well-being in this challenging environment.
Working closely with the IUC Workforce and Performance Manager and the Clinical Lead, you will be responsible for the allocation of resources within the call centres, ensuring there are sufficient staff, clinical support, equipment, training, and development within a working environment that is conducive to effective operational delivery. This will be underpinned by use of Call Centre Industry best practice i.e., ‘capacity planning cycle’ where you will continually review the staffing numbers, budget, recruitment, and training plans to ensure capacity matches patient demand.
You will inspire, motivate and engage staff to ensure the delivery of the key performance indicators (KPIs) for the service ensuring effective and efficient quality of care is provided 24 x 7 x 365.
As a Call Centre Manager, you will provide leadership across the service; within the centres and directly to the Operational Service Managers (OSMs); working closely with the other Call Centre Manager to interpret national guidance, ensure consistency in approach, sharing of best practice and underpinning continuous improvement.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.
We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.
Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.
Benefits:
• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes (salary dependent)
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.
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As an experienced senior manager (band 7 or above), you will have at least six months recent experience working in a managerial role within a call centre environment. You will be able to identify early and resolve disagreements and conflict, ensure staff are updated on service changes and communicate their suggestions to a broad range of colleagues. You will be able to quickly establish and develop good working relationships at all levels and in all disciplines throughout the Trust.
You will be committed to your own development and have the flexibility to meet the needs of the service. You may also be required to take part in an on-call rota and on call payments in line with NHS Agenda for Change.
You will have the flexibility to travel across our two both sites in Rotherham (Wath-upon-Dearne) and Wakefield, as well as the wider Trust when necessary.
Your values will align to those of the Trust.
If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to an assessment centre and interview on Friday 7th March with intended commencement in post mid May 2025.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025