Team Secretary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 07 May 2025

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly organised person to join our busy secretarial team. The role will be supporting the Senior Leadership Team within the Community Division. The successful candidate will be expected to provide a comprehensive and high quality secretarial/administrative support service, including personal responsibility for a number of delegated tasks.

Minute taking experience is essential, as is experience of working with information systems. The post is part-time 30 hours, between the hours of 8.30am-4.30pm or 9am-5pm depending on service needs. Base V7 Building, Kings Business Park, Prescot, L34 1PJ

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have excellent communication and organisational skills to enable to support the clinical team.

Minute taking experience and an RSA II or equivalent is essential as is experience of working with Information systems.

Successful applicants will be able to organise their own workload and co-ordinate workload activities with other administration staff in the team. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and a friendly telephone manner. There is a need to be able to work to tight deadlines and withstand the pressure of a busy department and it is essential that you are able to work on your own initiative.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Date posted

01 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

350-CC7079863-B

Job locations

V7

Kings Business Park

Prescot

L34 1PJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to develop databases
  • Computerised information systems
  • Keyboard/ Word Processing / data Input
  • Demonstrable knowledge of supervising other secretaries/admin staff

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working in a busy service
  • Able to work to deadlines
  • Knowledge of preparing/gathering data for reporting purposes
  • Excellent communication skills with staff and service users alike

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent or equivalent work based experience
  • RSA 1/2 type writing or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience
  • Computer literate

Values

Essential

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to develop databases
  • Computerised information systems
  • Keyboard/ Word Processing / data Input
  • Demonstrable knowledge of supervising other secretaries/admin staff

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working in a busy service
  • Able to work to deadlines
  • Knowledge of preparing/gathering data for reporting purposes
  • Excellent communication skills with staff and service users alike

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent or equivalent work based experience
  • RSA 1/2 type writing or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience
  • Computer literate

Values

Essential

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

V7

Kings Business Park

Prescot

L34 1PJ


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

V7

Kings Business Park

Prescot

L34 1PJ


Employer's website

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


For questions about the job, contact:

Deputy Operational Administration Manager

Lisa Lowe

Lisa.Lowe@merseycare.nhs.uk

Date posted

01 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

350-CC7079863-B

Job locations

V7

Kings Business Park

Prescot

L34 1PJ


Supporting documents

Privacy notice

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)