Band 3 Business Assistant

Job summary

Healthy Together are looking for an experienced Business Assistant/Secretarial Support to join our existing friendly team supporting the Clinical Leadership within Healthy Together (Health Visiting and School Nursing Service).

The post holders will initially be based at County Hall, Glenfield, however some hybrid working may be available after initial training period. The site offers excellent facilities, including free parking for staff, food court selling hot and cold food, outside picnic areas, and air conditioned offices.

Applicants should be experienced in minuting strategic business focused meetings to a high standard, action logs and agenda preparation, as this forms a large part of the role.

Contact Details: Jane Hill, jane.hill36@nhs.net 07557 488807

Main duties of the job

• To provide comprehensive administrative and/or secretarial support to an individual, clinical team or specific service area to harmonise efforts and specialisms of all disciplines to achieve effective and efficient service provision.
• To undertake diary management, including booking events, meetings and appointments.
• To attend meetings, organising refreshments and resources, preparing agendas and taking accurate notes/minutes, identifying and co-ordinating agreed actions.
• Communicating effectively both verbally and in writing with a wide range of professional colleagues and service users.
• To organise, plan and prioritise own workload, to be responsive to the changing needs of the service, utilising and maintaining electronic and hard-copy office systems to ensure the smooth-running of the service or team.
• To deal confidentially and confidently with complex patient and staff information and to provide support and advice within the remit of the role, and escalating problems or concerns where appropriate.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

County Hall

Penn Lloyd Building

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

County Hall

Penn Lloyd Building

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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