Team secretary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our busy Secretarial Team as a Band 3 Team Secretary supporting the Community Division s Senior Leadership Team. The role will be expected to provide a comprehensive and high quality secretarial/administrative support service, including personal responsibility for a number of delegated tasks within the Service. Minute taking experience and an RSA II or equivalent is essential as is experience of working with information systems. We have 3 positions offering permanent and 12 month fixed term contracts. The post are full-time 37.5 hours, between the hours of 8.30am-4.30pm or 9am-5pm depending on service needs. Base V7 - Kings Business Park, Prescot The post holder will have excellent communication and organisational skills to enable to support the clinical team. Minute taking experience and 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. Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people. 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. Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full detail and main responsibilities of the role.