Job summary
Manchester LCO corporate office are looking for an admin assistant with minute taking skills to join our team. You will provide high level professional administrative support within the Corporate Office. Working autonomously you will provide a comprehensive secretarial/administrative service to assist the LCO corporate team as required.
Responsibilities are varied and include managing diary commitments, scheduling various meetings, producing minutes and coordinating arrangements for meetings and events as well as preparing correspondence, reports and presentations. You will have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and be fluent in the use of Microsoft Office. With the ability to communicate effectively at all levels and maintain effective internal and external contacts, you will have a flexible approach to the working day to meet tight and varying deadlines, and be someone who works well as part of a team.
The role will be the main contact for facilities enquiries and ordering of stationery, equipment etc.
Main duties of the job
- To provide secretarial and administrative support to the LCO corporate team. This will involve composing and typing correspondence, reports and minutes of meetings using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and bespoke data information, recording and reporting systems.
- To be responsible for dealing with issues of a highly sensitive and confidential nature.
- To provide a full administrative/secretarial service for frequent meetings preparing and compiling agendas and papers, circulating papers, taking and transcribing formal minutes within agreed timescales and protocols where confidential information may be discussed and judgment will need to be made in relation as to how minutes are recorded sensitively and accurately.
- Be the main contact for all facilities related enquiries.
Main job description attached.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO) has been created to support the people of Manchester to live healthy, independent, fulfilling lives. We recognise that the best outcomes and most effective solutions come from our communities themselves. Using a place-based approach, we have brought together community health and social care services in our 12 neighbourhoods. By building on existing community strengths and by developing strong relationships and collaborative partnerships within our neighbourhoods we are helping to improve health and well-being. Partnership working is key to achieving this goal, as is the development of a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO) has been created to support the people of Manchester to live healthy, independent, fulfilling lives. We recognise that the best outcomes and most effective solutions come from our communities themselves. Using a place-based approach, we have brought together community health and social care services in our 12 neighbourhoods. By building on existing community strengths and by developing strong relationships and collaborative partnerships within our neighbourhoods we are helping to improve health and well-being. Partnership working is key to achieving this goal, as is the development of a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Experience in NHS or similar healthcare setting Administration
- Good working knowledge of a relevant administration system.
- Experience in minute/note taking.
- A good working knowledge of Microsoft packages (eg Word, Excel, Access,
- Strong IT skills
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Experience in NHS or similar healthcare setting Administration
- Good working knowledge of a relevant administration system.
- Experience in minute/note taking.
- A good working knowledge of Microsoft packages (eg Word, Excel, Access,
- Strong IT skills
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.
