PA to Clinical Director Comm Beds/Palliative & Ambulatory Services

Job Summary

This role is to provide a high standard of comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Clinical Director's for Forensic & Specialist Services. Additionally, the post holder will support the Senior Business Manager to the Medical and Dental Management Directorate with day to day routine tasks associated with an administrative role including complex diary management and extensive meeting planning and minute taking.

The post holder must be able to use initiative and plan their own workload in a way that supports the Clinical Director's and other management colleagues and must be comfortable working with varied professional groups.

Main duties of the job

1. Email and diary management
2. Meeting agenda setting, action tracking and minutes
3. Maintain spreadsheets
4. Support with report writing and business cases
5. Monitoring of mandatory training, supervision and appraisal compliance
6. Support PA team and Senior Business Manager to Chief Medical Officer

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 Description
Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the following:

1. High level knowledge of admin processes and customer service
2. A good understanding of the health and social care sector
3. Educated to NVQ Level 4 or 5 or equivalent knowledge and experience

Skills and Abilities Essential

1. Ability to comply with strict deadlines
2. Ability to prioritise actions
3. Good communication skills, both written and verbal
4. Prepare and distribute agendas and papers for relevant meetings

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
Berrywood Hospital, Duston, NN5 6UD
Employer's website
https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/