The Acute Intensive Care Unit is an extremely busy, seventeen bedded, combined intensive care unit (ICU) and high dependency unit (HDU) and the workload is unpredictable. The Support Secretary is a pivotal member of staff whose duties include responsibility for providing administrative and secretarial support to all the staff on the Unit. To assist in providing an efficient administrative and secretarial service to the whole ICU team i.e. Consultants, Trainee Doctors, Senior nursing staff and medical teams, with particular focus on the Outreach Team and the management team within the Critical Care Directorate. The post holder will handle sensitive patient and personnel information with utmost confidentiality. Provide administrative support to the Critical Care Outreach Service. Assist in providing a secretarial service. Deal promptly with a wide range of enquiries from staff, patients and relatives, in a caring and professional manner . Diary Management, taking minutes and arranging meetings, preparing appropriate paperwork. Assist in the Induction of Trainee Doctors on rotation to ICU. Manage diaries for the senior team, meetings and appointments also organise papers for meetings. Provide general administrative support to the senior team, including Critical Care Head of Nursing. MFT is Englandâs largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. Weâre creating an exceptional integrated health social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services. Bringing together 10 hospitals community services from across Manchester, Trafford beyond, we champion collaborative working transformation, encouraging our over 28,000 workforce to pursue their career goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so youâll benefit from an extraordinary scale of opportunity. Weâre also creating a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient staff experience, operational effectiveness driving research innovation through the introduction of Hive; our new Electronic Patient Record system, launching in September 2022. Weâre proud to be a major academic Research Centre Education provider, offering a robust infrastructure to facilitate high-quality research programmes. Moreover, weâre excited to be progressing our MFT Green Plan along with our vison to become an Anchor Organisation, creating new jobs, promoting healthy lifestyles, developing skills and contributing to a zero-carbon environment for the benefit of the local neighbourhood. At MFT, we create foster a culture of inclusion belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open transparent, protecting your health wellbeing shaping MFTâs future together. To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youâll need, take a look at the Job Description Person Specification attachments under the âSupporting Documentsâ heading. So that youâre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youâll need to take time to read the âCandidate Essentials Guideâthat sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how âwe care for you as you care for othersâ. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youâll need to be aware of before you submit an application form. COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the âNHS Englandâ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination. Diversity Matters MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team
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