Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-CC6267182
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Manor Farm PCRC
- Town
- Huyton
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Team Secretary
Band 3
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Job overview
Are you a Team Secretary working or would like to work in the field of parent infant mental health?
If so, we want to hear from you, as an exciting opportunity has arisen to join Mersey Care’s Parent Infant Mental Health Service, BABS (Building and Attachment Service) in St Helens.
BABS supports vulnerable parents and infants to build secure attachments and loving bonds with their babies, whilst breaking negative life cycles. BABS will be hosted in the community by Sutton Family Hub.
It is a busy role and so the successful candidate will need to have excellent organisational skills and be able to prioritise workload on a daily basis due to competing deadlines.
You will be motivated, flexible and committed to being part of a team that is dedicated to providing the highest possible standards of care to our patients. The successful applicant will have the ability to work on their own, to prioritise their workload and work to tight deadlines.
Shortlisting planned for: 31 May 2024
Interview planned for: 7 June 2024
Main duties of the job
The post holder will administratively support an extensive range of functions on behalf of BABS The successful applicant will be a strong team player with a high level of organisational and interpersonal skills. They will be well organised and have the ability to work to competing deadlines and priorities. The post holder will be required to work flexibly, have the ability to establish good working relationships and deal with a wide range of professionals via telephone, written and face to face contact.
The post holder will have demonstrable admin experience as a Team Secretary including experience of coordinating diaries, using IT systems and supporting a multi disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint and will have experience of using Service databases and clinical information systems.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Business Administration Level 3 or equivalent/equivalent experience
- IT skills and experience
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products
- ECDL
Knowledge/Experiance
Essential criteria
- Proven relevant experience of working in an administrative role
- Demonstrable organisational and time management skills.
- Audio typing skills
- Good written, verbal and non-verbal skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience & knowledge of people who experience mental health issues
- Experience of working in a healthcare environment
- PowerPoint presentation
- Cashier experience
- Minute taking experience
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly to meet service need.
- Ability to use initiative and maintain a positive and professional attitude
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to prioritise work with minimum supervision
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to relate to people with tact and diplomacy
- Willingness to work in a secure setting
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gemma Docherty
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 351 8801
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