Job summary
Come and join Leicestershire Partnership Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!
We have an exciting opportunity as a Business Assistant within the Directorate of Mental Health.
The successful candidate will be supporting 5 leads cross various different pathways including Pier/Pause Team, Mental health Professionals, Mental Health Facilitators, Forensics, Homeless, ART nursing and Employment services. This fast paced and diverse role will involve providing comprehensive administrative and/or secretarial support to 5 friendly and outgoing pathway leads to harmonise efforts and specialisms of all disciplines to achieve effective and efficient service provision. This is a full-time role of 37.5 hours a week from Monday to Friday, with a blended working approach between OSL House and home working.
We are looking for a forward thinking, committed and enthusiastic individual who is able to demonstrate Leicestershire Partnership Trusts values of compassion, respect, integrity and trust whilst carrying out their day to day role responsibilities.
The health and wellbeing of out team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long term goals and work to your strengths.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job involve:
Taking minutes/notes of meetings, circulating documentation including identifying actions ensuring they are logged, prioritised, and are followed up.
To undertake electronic 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 an informal chat, please contact Tierney Cotton: tierney.cotton1@nhs.net
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 cri
Date posted
26 September 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,071 to £26,674 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
000921
Job locations
OSL House, East Link
Meridian Business Park
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE19 1XU
Employer details
Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
OSL House, East Link
Meridian Business Park
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE19 1XU
Employer's website
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