Business Assistant

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust; Wymondham; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is recruiting a Business Assistant for the Charnwood Community Mental Health Team. The role provides comprehensive administrative support to a multi-disciplinary team in a community setting, requiring excellent IT, audio-typing, and strong communication skills.

You will manage meetings, minutes, and documentation, plan training, and handle diary and travel arrangements for the team.

Qualifications

• Proven administrative experience and strong communication skills; able to work independently and in a team.
• Highly organised with good planning skills and proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Excellent IT and audio-typing skills; strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Attend meetings and take minutes/notes, circulate documents and log actions.
• Plan, organise training, and manage diary for the multi-disciplinary team; coordinate events.
• Coordinate travel arrangements and guest speakers for team meetings and events.
• Support processing of complex forensic patient referrals from internal/external agencies.

Skills

Administrative experience

Communication skills

Organised/Planning

Microsoft Office

IT skills

Audio-typing

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment! We have a fantastic opportunity for a Business Assistant to join our team at Charnwood Community Mental Health Team.

This is an incredibly rewarding role working with a team who support people with mental health issues within the Charnwood area of Leicestershire. As a Business Assistant you will provide a comprehensive administrative service to the multi-disciplinary team within the community setting. You will be joining a welcoming team who work well together and support each other.

For this role, we are looking for people with great administration experience and strong communication skills with the ability to work on their own and in a team. Youll need to be highly organised with good planning skills and highly skilled in Microsoft Office. It is a very friendly environment, and we are looking for people who demonstrate our values of Compassion, Trust, Respect and Integrity. The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support.

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths. Please note should you be shortlisted; you will be invited to undertake a pre-interview screening test., We are looking for someone who is caring and compassionate and who can develop relationships and communicate effectively within a team. The post-holder will be a key member of the team, providing professional and efficient administrative services.

You will need to organise, plan and prioritise your own workload, to be responsive to the changing needs of the service, utilising and maintaining electronic and hard-copy office systems to ensure the smooth-running of the service or team. The successful candidate will posses excellent IT and audio-typing skills, good written and verbal communication skills, the ability to liaise with service users in a calm and compassionate manner and the ability to work positively and proactively as part of the wider administrative and clinical teams.

As a Business Assistant, you will be required to attend meetings, taking minutes/notes of the meeting, circulating documentation including identifying actions ensuring they are logged, prioritised, and are followed up. You will be planning and organising training, diary management of appointments and of the multi-disciplinary team and also events which will include co-ordinating travel arrangements and guest speakers. You will support the processing of complex forensic patient referrals which involves collating information from various internal/external agencies.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied