Main area: Admin Support
Grade Band: 3
Contract: 12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30)
Job ref: 350-CC6882495
Site: Dovecot Health Centre
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/12/2024 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced administrator, based at Riverside Centre for Health. The role forms an integral part of the administrative & secretarial function required to support the Nutrition and Dietetics team.
The successful candidate must be proficient in using Microsoft packages, particularly Word & Excel. The post holder must have excellent communication skills both verbally and written to effectively communicate with patients, staff at all levels within the organisation and external partners.
Full training on NHS systems will be provided.
If this role appeals to you and you feel you have the experience and skills to meet the requirements specified in the job description, we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide a comprehensive and high quality secretarial/administrative support service undertaking a wide range of administrative tasks, including personal responsibility for a number of delegated tasks.
2. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
3. Organise the diaries and commitments of managers, including scheduling of meetings, conferences, and making catering and travel arrangements when necessary.
4. Attend weekly meetings, take notes, prepare agendas and other papers as required.
5. Sort and prioritise mail for the team dealing with all correspondence confidentially.
6. Respond to all telephone, e-mail and general enquiries ensuring that appropriate messages are emailed or action is taken.
7. Liaise with colleagues at all levels both within the team and across other agencies and in other organisations.
8. Ensure provision of secretarial/administrative support to the Service. The post holder will propose any necessary changes of local protocols necessary to aid service improvement.
9. Maintain appropriate supplies for the team, being responsible for all necessary ordering of supplies/equipment.
10. Undertake delegated tasks and prepare reports including PowerPoint presentations for appropriate managers.
11. Supervise others, planning their workload and dealing with any issues that they may have.
12. Collate incoming invoices, keeping a record of invoices paid and process any invoice queries that may arise.
13. Ensure timesheets are recorded appropriately, in a timely and accurate manner.
14. Provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues as necessary.
15. Follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience.
* RSA 1/2/3 type writing or equivalent, or equivalent work-based experience.
* NVQ Level 2 Business Administration.
Knowledge/Experience
* Computer literate.
* Ability to develop and maintain databases.
* Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).
* Minute taking.
* Online ordering systems.
Skills
* Computerised information systems.
* Keyboard / Word Processing / Data Input.
* Good organisational and interpersonal skills.
* Demonstrable knowledge of supervising other secretarial/administrative staff.
Values
* Accountability.
* Support.
* Responsive to service users.
* Engaging leadership style.
* Transparency and honesty.
* Discreet.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
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