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Personal Assistant/Admin

NHS

Job Description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Personal Assistant/ Administrator to work within the Specialist & Secured Services Management Support Team. The role involves providing full administrative support todedicated senior staff within our service. We are looking for an enthusiastic team player with excellent communication and IT skills and who has previous experience of working in a PA/ administrative role.

Can you work independently with excellent prioritisation and negotiation skills and have a flexible approach to work, together with the ability to work to ever evolving deadlines, then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a comprehensive, quality and confidential personal assistant and administrative service to the senior staff leads they will support. A key requirement of the role will be to help organise and co-ordinate their workloads and activities. To ensure an efficient service is provided. It is essential that the post holder is able to exercise initiative suitable to the role and is fully supportive to other colleagues in the team when required.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Qualifciations/Knowledge/Previous Experience/

Essential

  • Sounds knowledge of confidentiality in accordance with Data Protection Act and National/Local guidelines
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Desirable

  • Management of diaries
  • Minute taking skills
  • Ability to identify problems and develop creative solutions

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ level 3 in Business Administration or equivalent qualification and significant experience in a secretarial or administrative role

Desirable

  • Previous PA experience

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

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Brightfield Business Hub,

Bakewell Road

Orton Southgate, Peterborough,

PE2 6XU

Employer's website

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

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