Personal Assistant to the Chief Pharmacist and Deputy Chief Pharmacist

Personal Assistant to the Chief Pharmacist and Deputy Chief Pharmacist

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

An opportunity has arisen to provide the Chief Pharmacist and Associate Director for Medicines Management and the Deputy Chief Pharmacist with an efficient, effective administrative, secretarial, and organisational support service.

This role is part-time, 30 hours.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a proactive, highly competent, and resilient individual to work within our dynamic team to ensure we have effective administrative, secretarial, and organisational support to the pharmacy leadership team.

The successful candidate will have good knowledge of the NHS, excellent administrative and organisational skills including minute taking, diary management, advanced IT skills, including MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and ideally Share Point; attention to detail; and the ability to work on your own initiative, independently, and as a team player.

About us

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

Job responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description for full details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs: Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion, and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the essential criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer YES to the question: Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good level of education including GCSE grade C or above in English and Maths or equivalent
• NVQ level 3 or equivalent in relevant discipline
• ECDL
• Other Business or administrative qualifications

Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience using the full range of secretarial procedures, software programmes including email, internet, and Microsoft Office software packages - Word, Power Point, and Excel.
• Good organisational and planning skills, with the ability to effectively time manage
• Analytical skills with a proven ability to interpret information.
• Effective minute taking skills

Experience

• Significant experience of working at a similar level
• Experience of supporting a Senior Management Team / Executive Directors
• Experience of communicating with Senior Management
• Experience of working in the NHS or public sector

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.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata