Business Assistant - FPICU Team

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Leicester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization in Leicester is offering a full-time position as a Business Administration Assistant within the Forensic Mental Health team. You will provide crucial administrative support, manage diaries, and collaborate with clinical teams. Ideal candidates are motivated and possess strong IT and communication skills, contributing to a dynamic work environment that values teamwork and support.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Opportunities for career progression

Qualifications

• Experience in providing administrative support.
• Ability to communicate effectively with service users.
• Experience in planning and organizing travel arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Providing administrative support to the Forensic Mental Health team.
• Managing diaries and appointments for the multi-disciplinary team.
• Collating information for complex forensic patient referrals.

Skills

IT skills

Audio-typing skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Team collaboration

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 full-time Business Administration Assistant to join our team with the Forensic Mental Health team.

As a Business Assistant you will work within an admin team to provide a comprehensive administrative service to medics and outpatient function within the Forensic Service. You will be joining a welcoming team who work well together and support each other.We are looking for someone who is motivated, enthusiastic, a team player and above all able to demonstrates a commitment to the Trusts values in everyday life.

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.

Main duties of the job

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 Admin 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.You will support in organising multi-agency meetings for patients involving and supporting the Ministry of Justice and work collaboratively with the Mental Health Act office and processes.You will support other patient related tasks including producing clinic letter via Digital Dictation, arranging outpatient appointments and Care Programme Approach meetingsYou will undertake diary management for yourself and others and you will communicate effectively via email, including implementing aflagging/prioritisation system.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

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 working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

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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.