Job vacancy: Secretary, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Warrington

Job summary

Main area: Learning Disabilities and Autism
Grade: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-SC6174816-B

Employer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hollins Park Hosptial
Town: Warrington
Salary: £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/07/2024 23:59

Secretary

Band 3

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide secretarial and administrative support to the department using various software applications and systems used with Merseycare trust.

In addition, as the secretary/administrator for the service you will receive regular supervision to support you with your work. Your professional development is important and is expected to lead to enhancements in client experience and service delivery.

Please see job description and Person Specification for further details.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to GCSE Level or equivalent. Maths and English at C or above – or equivalent qualification/demonstrable experience.
RSA/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent (55 wpm typing)

Desirable criteria

ECDL qualification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of data protection and confidentiality requirements
Knowledge of office system

Experience

Essential criteria

Some experience of working as a Junior Secretary or Administration Assistant
Experience of setting up office systems and processes
Experience of liaising with a range of colleagues at all levels

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in healthcare environment

Skills

Essential criteria

Able to work to deadlines, juggling priorities
Excellent planning and organisation skills
Skilled minute/note taker
Organisational skills and ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines
Clear and accurate communication skills and ability to be sensitive to the needs of others
Flexible adaptable and ‘can do’ approach to adapt to rapidly changing priorities and a variety of tasks

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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.