Team Secretary | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Band 3 Team Secretary for its Adult Community Mental Health Team. This role involves providing administrative support within a clinical setting, requiring excellent communication and organizational skills. Ideal candidates will have RSA II or equivalent and experience with information systems. A friendly telephone manner and the ability to work under pressure are essential. This position offers a chance to contribute to vital mental health services.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with Information systems.
• Ability to co-ordinate workload activities with other administration staff.
• Capacity to withstand pressure in a busy department.

Responsibilities

• Provide admin support to the clinical team.
• Organise own workload effectively.
• Work on own initiative and manage tight deadlines.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Excellent organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Friendly telephone manner

Education

RSA II or equivalent

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Mental Health Care Division Admin and Clerical team as a Band 3 Team Secretary within the Adult Community Mental Health Team.

This role will provide admin support to our clinical team based within Hartley Hospital.

The post holder will have excellent communication and organisational skills.

Requirements

An RSA II or equivalent is essential as is experience of working with Information systems.

Successful applicants will be able to organise their own workload and co-ordinate workload activities with other administration staff in the team. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and a friendly telephone manner.

There is a need to be able to work to tight deadlines and withstand the pressure of a busy department and it is essential that you are able to work on your own initiative.

About Mersey Care

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.