Job vacancy: Personal Assistant to Cancer Management Team, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster

Job summary

Main area

Personal Assistant

Grade

Band 3

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time
Flexible working
Home or remote working

30 hours per week (There may be a requirement to work flexibly due to occasional meeting arrangements)

Job ref

272-6337914

Employer: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Town: Doncaster
Salary: £22,816 - £24,336 Pro Rata Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59

Personal Assistant to Cancer Management Team

Band 3

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.

Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working in a secretarial environment or similar administrative role in the NHS or a large organisation.
Knowledge of issues of working with confidential information and understanding the need for confidentiality.
Workload planning, including allocating work within a team to ensure an efficient, high quality, customer-focused service.
Experience of handling sensitive situations efficiently and confidently.
Committee administration, minute taking skills and action follow-up.
Proactive diary management and forward planning of workloads.

Desirable criteria

Experience in excel/spreadsheets
Experience of taking minutes

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Evidence of good education, GCSE English and Mathematics A-C (or equivalent) or equivalent experience
Knowledge of IT systems and software programs e.g.: Microsoft Word and Excel applications.

Desirable criteria

Confidence in talking / presenting to groups.

Personal Attributes & Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to communicate well with staff of all disciplines and grades.
Possesses and displays tact and diplomacy where appropriate.
Enthusiastic, highly motivated professional attitude to work.
Self-confident, emotionally resilient, persistent and approachable.
Able to work effectively using initiative without procedural guidance or supervision.
Able to liaise with stakeholders, external organisations

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Please note that all correspondence will be sent you to via email. If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
We reserve the right to close down this advert early should there be a high number of applicants.
The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken In line with other NHS organisations in the Yorkshire and Humber Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event that they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Please note that this check will be charged for in two instalments when you commence employment with Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.