Personal Assistant

Apply for Personal Assistant - Medium Secure

Salary: £27,524 - £33,627 per annum (depending on experience)

Hours: 37.5 per week, Full time

We are St Andrew’s, a mental health charity which inspires hope. We work together with a number of organisations to transform the lives of people with complex mental health needs. We provide specialist mental healthcare and deliver a range of inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education, and research that helps to improve lives.

Our vision for the future is a society in which everyone living with mental health needs is heard, valued, and has hope for their future.

Come join us. Let's transform lives together.

A bit more about your role with us

An opportunity has arisen to join the Medium Secure Division at St Andrew's Healthcare, Northampton, as a Personal Assistant.

The successful candidate will have proven Personal Assistant experience at Director Level, with excellent communication and organisational skills, high-level calibre of minute-taking, and report writing experience. The ability to work to tight deadlines and accurate keyboard skills are essential, as well as being innovative and cohesive in their ways of working.

Confidentiality and effective communication are paramount to this role as the work involves dealing with sensitive information.

Summary of Role:

• To provide an efficient and effective administrative service to Clinical Director / Service Directors and Associate Director of Nursing
• Manage diaries and organise meetings / events ensuring all supporting arrangements are covered
• Provide support for meetings, including preparation and distribution of agendas, attending the meetings to take notes and actions, and transcription, circulation, and follow-up
• Sharing skill mix within the administrative team in the division

Your profile

• You will have gained experience in a similar role within a similar setting. Strong all-round administration and organisational skills are essential.
• You will have a proven ability to produce high-quality, professional documents, with intermediate/advanced keyboard skills. You need a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (intermediate level Word & Outlook) and be able to understand financial and statistical information. You will have previous experience in, and be confident with taking and transcribing minutes of meetings.
• Able to work collaboratively or on your own initiative, you will have a strong customer focus and good communication skills.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence every single day.

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing after 5 and 10 years' service; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications; On-site facilities such as gym and swimming pool access and cafés all set within beautiful grounds.