Personal Assistant - AMU

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Personal Assistant to support the Unit Managers on the Acute Medical Unit at Fairfield General Hospital, providing administrative support and office management.

We are looking for a candidate who is efficient, highly motivated, driven, and able to maintain confidentiality at all times.

Main duties of the job

• Act as first point of contact for all communication for the Unit Managers.
• Communicate professionally and effectively with Senior Management, clinicians and colleagues internally and externally.
• Provide a confidential secretarial service, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
• Assist the Unit Manager in roster planning, annual leave, sickness and absence management.
• Provide, receive and manage information electronically, verbally or in writing which may be of a confidential or sensitive nature, which may involve individual, staff or patient matters or matters of commercial confidence.
• Provide diary management, arranging of meetings, appointments and interviews as required.
• To prepare and type agenda along with distribute minutes of meetings.
• To maintain internal filing systems aligned in accordance to the non-clinical records management strategy.
• Work in a self- directed manner to progress aspects of the AMU Unit Managers actions that do not require their direct involvement.
• Take responsibility for planning and prioritising own workload, ensuring that requirements are met.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.