Health Visiting Team Assistant - Longsight Health Centre

Job summary

Are you organised, methodical, with excellent communication and team workings skills? We require a helpful and reliable team assistant to provide a top class admin service for a busy and dynamic health visiting team.

This role is Band 3 Team Assistant, supporting the Health Visitor Team at Longsight Health Centre.

The successful candidate will need a good eye for detail and know the importance of working in a confidential environment. The ideal candidate will be someone who enjoys helping others and is flexible to support the changing requirements service. Indeed, you will require excellent interpersonal skills and will be used to communicating effectively at all levels and with different audiences.

Main duties of the job

We are Manchester Local Care Organisation - an exciting, new public sector organisation that is bringing together NHS community health services and social care services in the city. We're driven by the aim of improving the health of local people in Manchester by working across organisational boundariesWe are looking for a candidate with a positive attitude, flexibility and ability to work with staff and service users under own initiative, but can also work as a team.You will be responsible for updating and inputting data on to the EMIS System, liaising with health professionals, children's services and other agencies ensuring all filing of manual and electronic records are kept up to date and accurate. You will be organised and methodical with excellent communication skills and telephone manner, the ability to communicate at all levels while maintaining client/patient confidentiality . An investigative mind and self motivation would be helpful to work in this busy environment.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.