Business Assistant

Job summary

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We have a great opportunity for a Business Assistant to join our team in the Specialist Psychological Therapy Services - TSPPD, supporting people with mental health difficulties across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

As a Business Assistant you will be responsible for providing a comprehensive administration service and supporting the team. We are looking for people with great administration experience and strong communication skills with the ability to work on their own and in a team. You will need to be highly organised with good planning skills and highly skilled in Microsoft Office.

The health and wellbeing of our 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.

We also offer:

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support

Main duties of the job

The Business Assistant role includes duties such as managing referrals, telephone and written correspondence with patients, organising meetings, data inputting, creating spreadsheets and other general administration tasks.

The successful candidate will posses excellent IT and audio-typing skills, good written and verbal communication skills, the ability to liaise with service users in a calm and compassionate manner and the ability to work positively and proactively as part of the wider administrative and clinical teams. Please look at the job description for more information and if you meet the requirements of the person specification, we will welcome your application.

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

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Gwendolen House

Gwendolen Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE5 4QF

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Gwendolen House

Gwendolen Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE5 4QF

Employer's website

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

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