Band 4 Personal Assistant/Team Leader

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

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Job summary

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

The post holder will provide a high level, competent, comprehensive administrative support to the Heads of Service.

The post holder will have day to day management for staff within a dedicated administrative team who will be responsible for delivering an effective service.

The post holder will act as the Personal Assistant (PA) to a dedicated Head of Service.

To provide cross cover within the Clinical Groups at times of short staffing levels to ensure the smooth delivery of services within the Division.

Main duties of the job

  • Support other members of the Clinical Group on a day to day basis to ensure a turnaround of 14 days for the typing of clinical letters is adhered to, by prioritising and managing own and team workload including outsourcing
  • Review and prioritise all correspondence received requiring clinical input, ensuring that any further information required by the Head of Service is made available
  • Promote and implement the use of outsourcing application, for all non-urgent clinical letters ensuring Standard Operational Procedures (SOP) are followed and preparing urgent clinical letters where required.
  • Complete quality control checks across administration functions within the Clinical Groups i.e. review standard of outsourced / urgent letters and ensure SOPs are adhered too.
  • Provide the first point of contact for written and telephone enquiries on behalf of the Head of Service, using judgement to establish the validity and priority of the contact
  • Manage and maintain the Heads of Service diary or appointment system, ensuring that utilisation of time and allocation of appointments is appropriate.
  • Facilitate meetings/events; issuing invites to attendees including circulation of any relevant paperwork, booking venues to include any IT requirements, produce minutes/action logs, and assist with the overall smooth running of the meetings.

About us

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Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Date posted

28 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

820-6857732-DEN

Job locations

Birmingham Dental Hospital

Bristol Road

Birmingham

B5 7SA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a further detailed description on the post.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a further detailed description on the post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ3 Business Administration or equivalent.
  • RSA III in Typing or Word Processing or equivalent.
  • Evidence of continued learning and development

Experience

Essential

  • oRelevant medical secretarial/ administrative experience in an office environment
  • oExperience of producing clinical correspondence
  • oExperience of using Microsoft systems including word processing, excel and outlook
  • oExperience of maintaining filing systems.
  • oRelevant experience of diary management, arranging meetings booking venues etc.
  • oExperience of providing meeting administration support, formal minutes/note taking.
  • oExperience with dealing with matters of a sensitive and confidential nature.

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

  • oExcellent IT skills and proficient with MS Office applications.
  • oExcellent Ability to communicate at all levels effectively, written/verbal
  • oAbility to accurately populate and monitor databases and spread sheets with an eye for attention to detail.
  • oExcellent Organisational Skills and ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
  • oAbility to deliver a high level of accuracy and consistency in all work undertaken.
  • oKnowledge of paper and electronic records management
  • oAbility to use initiative to resolve problems

Desirable

  • oKnowledge of medical terminology

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Right to work in the UK
  • oAbility to establish effective working relationships.
  • oAbility to identify own personal and professional development needs.
  • oAbility to travel to other bases as required
  • oAbility to undertake further training and development as required for post.
  • oExcellent inter-personal skills
  • Reliability and flexibility
  • oAble to work on own initiative
  • oCommitted team player
  • oMotivation to develop self and others
  • oAdaptable/flexible attitude to work
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ3 Business Administration or equivalent.
  • RSA III in Typing or Word Processing or equivalent.
  • Evidence of continued learning and development

Experience

Essential

  • oRelevant medical secretarial/ administrative experience in an office environment
  • oExperience of producing clinical correspondence
  • oExperience of using Microsoft systems including word processing, excel and outlook
  • oExperience of maintaining filing systems.
  • oRelevant experience of diary management, arranging meetings booking venues etc.
  • oExperience of providing meeting administration support, formal minutes/note taking.
  • oExperience with dealing with matters of a sensitive and confidential nature.

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

  • oExcellent IT skills and proficient with MS Office applications.
  • oExcellent Ability to communicate at all levels effectively, written/verbal
  • oAbility to accurately populate and monitor databases and spread sheets with an eye for attention to detail.
  • oExcellent Organisational Skills and ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
  • oAbility to deliver a high level of accuracy and consistency in all work undertaken.
  • oKnowledge of paper and electronic records management
  • oAbility to use initiative to resolve problems

Desirable

  • oKnowledge of medical terminology

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Right to work in the UK
  • oAbility to establish effective working relationships.
  • oAbility to identify own personal and professional development needs.
  • oAbility to travel to other bases as required
  • oAbility to undertake further training and development as required for post.
  • oExcellent inter-personal skills
  • Reliability and flexibility
  • oAble to work on own initiative
  • oCommitted team player
  • oMotivation to develop self and others
  • oAdaptable/flexible attitude to work

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

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Birmingham Dental Hospital

Bristol Road

Birmingham

B5 7SA


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Birmingham Dental Hospital

Bristol Road

Birmingham

B5 7SA


Employer's website

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

For questions about the job, contact:

Group Office Manager

Marianne Noon

marianne.noon@nhs.net

01214665133

Date posted

28 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

820-6857732-DEN

Job locations

Birmingham Dental Hospital

Bristol Road

Birmingham

B5 7SA


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