COMMUNITY CHILD & ADOLESCENT EATING DISORDER CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST

TN United Kingdom; Essex; On-site; GBP 1,000 - 3,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a part-time Personal Assistant within a supportive organization dedicated to providing exceptional community and mental healthcare services. Join a team recognized for its commitment to equality and diversity, where your contributions will directly impact the well-being of patients. This role involves managing administrative tasks for senior management, utilizing advanced IT skills, and fostering a collaborative work environment. If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a dynamic setting, this position offers a rewarding career path with opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Psychological support

Health and wellbeing ambassadors

Proactive health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy administrative environment is essential.
• Supervisory experience of administrative staff is required.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills are a must.

Responsibilities

• Support the Partnership Director with administrative tasks.
• Manage diaries and sort incoming emails promptly.
• Create reports and presentations using advanced IT skills.

Skills

Administrative experience

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Minute Taking

Customer service skills

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

MS Outlook

MS Teams

Adobe Pro

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28.04.2025

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12.06.2025

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Job Description:

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a part time Personal Assistant to join the Essex Management Team in Supporting the Partnership Director for Thurrock and Basildon.

Main duties of the job

• Supporting administration and organisational tasks for the PD
• Provide a high quality confidential and comprehensive administrative service
• Manage Diaries and Open and sort incoming emails and other post in a timely manner, and where appropriate, personally prepare and send responses to correspondence.
• Operate bring forward and reminder systems.
• Undertake word processing of all documents to a high standard, in an agreed Trust style and using an appropriate referencing system.
• Utilise advanced level IT skills to create reports, spreadsheets and presentations, we regularly use MS Excel, MS Teams, MS forms, PowerPoint and Adobe Pro.
• Develop and maintain filing systems (electronic and paper) to ensure effective access to relevant information.
• Supporting the development and administration of projects and mobilisations
• General admin duties, including, oversight of complaint letters, management of emails and incoming queries
• Minute taking and scribe at meetings.
• Liaising with members of staff including, clinicians and senior managers. See JD for more details

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,122 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Experience of supervising administrative staff.
• Excellent organisational and admin skills.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Administrative experience essential, experience within the NHS desirable
• Minute Taking
• Confidence and competence in MS Excel MS Word and MS Outlook and desirable is MS teams, MS forms and Adobe Pro.
• Email and Diary Management.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.

Person specification

Experience

• Administrative experience of working in a busy environment
• Experience of Supervising Administrative Staff
• Minute Taking Skills
• Has worked at Band 3 or equivalent
• Has worked within NHS and has experience of systems such as Healthroster, Systmone, eProcurement etc.
• Has acted up or has experience of PA role.

Communication

• Good interpersonal and telephone skills

Knowledge

• Healthroster Use

Qualifications

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.