Band 5 PA to Clinical Directors (Acute & Urgent Care) - Oleaster

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Park Central; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A public healthcare provider in Park Central, England, is seeking a Personal Assistant to support Clinical Directors. Key responsibilities include managing diaries, organizing meetings, and ensuring effective communication. Ideal candidates will have experience in a similar role and excellent organizational skills. This position offers the chance to make a meaningful difference in mental health care.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage workload and use initiative.
• Ability to work as part of a team with an empathic approach.

Responsibilities

• Arrange and service meetings.
• Coordinate day to day diary management.
• Produce presentation material and reports.
• Ensure timely responses to correspondence and enquiries.
• Make decisions within delegated authority.

Skills

Experience in secretarial or personal assistant role

Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

Minute taking

Diary management

Organisational skills

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

The Acute and Urgent Care Service are looking to recruit a PA to work with our two Clinical Directors and be part of the managements administration team based at the Oleaster Centre.

Responsibilities

• The post holder will be responsible for arranging and servicing meetings, coordinating day to day diary management, the production of presentation material and reports and ensuring that service contacts receive a prompt response to all correspondence and enquiries.
• The post holder will be required to make decisions within delegated authority, on behalf of the Clinical Director(s).

What you’ll need

• Experience working in a secretarial or personal assistant position, with the aptitude to manage your own workload, use your own initiative and maintain information governance.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), minute taking, diary management and organisational skills.
• The ability to work as part of a team with other staff members, patients and the public, and an empathic approach towards people suffering from a mental illness.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

We are unable to support applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work the United Kingdom (UK).

We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Sep 2025