Digital Team Assistant

NHS; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Digital Team Assistant to provide essential administrative, coordination and operational support to programmes transforming health and care services for over one million people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

You will work at the heart of a dynamic team, ensuring smooth delivery of digital transformation initiatives, coordinating meetings, maintaining records and supporting effective communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Highly organized with proactive and detail-oriented approach.
• Excellent communication and administrative skills.
• Comfortable managing competing priorities and coordinating across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating meetings, workshops and events, including diary management and travel arrangements.
• Preparing agendas, taking accurate minutes and tracking actions to support programme delivery.
• Maintaining databases, spreadsheets and records, and supporting reporting activities.
• Acting as a key point of contact for enquiries from internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting effective communication and information sharing across the Digital Innovation & Transformation Team.
• Providing high-quality administrative and coordination support within a busy digital transformation environment.

Skills

Organised

Diary management

Stakeholder communication

Administrative skills

Tools

Databases

Spreadsheets

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Digital Innovation & Transformation Team as a Digital Team Assistant, providing essential administrative, coordination and operational support to programmes that are transforming health and care services for over one million people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Working at the heart of a dynamic and innovative team, you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth delivery of a wide range of digital transformation initiatives that improve services for patients, clinicians and partner organisations.

This varied and fast-paced role offers the chance to work with colleagues and stakeholders across multiple health and care organisations, supporting effective communication, collaboration and programme delivery.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to work with colleagues from a wide range of organisations across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, building strong professional relationships and gaining exposure to different areas of health and social care.

You’ll develop a broad understanding of digital health and social care, supporting initiatives that improve outcomes for patients, service users and staff across the local system.

Please note that this role will involve some hybrid work - spending some time at our headquarters at County Hall, Glenfield as well as working from home.

Main duties of the job

The role would suit someone who is highly organised, proactive and detail-oriented, with excellent communication and administrative skills. You will be comfortable managing competing priorities, coordinating activities across multiple workstreams, handling confidential information with discretion, and using your initiative to support the continuous improvement of team processes and ways of working.

What you’ll be doing:

• Coordinating meetings, workshops and events, including diary management and travel arrangements.
• Preparing agendas, taking accurate minutes and tracking actions to support programme delivery.
• Maintaining databases, spreadsheets and records, and supporting reporting activities.
• Acting as a key point of contact for enquiries from internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting effective communication and information sharing across the Digital Innovation & Transformation Team.
• Providing high-quality administrative and coordination support within a busy and evolving digital transformation environment.

About us

About UsLeicestershire 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.

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.