Personal assistant

An opportunity has arisen for a highly organised and experienced Personal Assistant to support Directorate Managers within Community Care Group. Provide comprehensive confidential administrative/ secretarial service to the Care Group Senior Management Team: necessitating contact with external bodies, clinical, nursing, management, executive and clerical staff. Supporting the full governance agenda across the Care Group for all staff within the Management Team. Cross cover is required when colleagues are on annual/study or sick leave. You will have excellent communication skills and an ability to work well under pressure. A flexible and enthusiastic approach is essential for this busy role working at the heart of one of the clinical Care Groups within the Trust. A Standard DBS is required for this post. To organise and manage the diaries of the Care Group Senior Management Team providing a first-class administrative service and ensuring their daily workload and priorities are met. Manage any generic mailboxes and calendars within the Care Group as requested by the Management team. Plan and organise meetings for the Care Group Management Team, liaising with staff across multidisciplinary settings. Arrange and circulate agendas and any paperwork that is required, ensuring this is available for the meeting in appropriate format. Keeping attendance lists. This is also inclusive but not limited to, taking minutes at any required meeting, type and distribute electronic or hard copies of minutes. Typing back at meeting recordings as requested. Ensuring the dissemination of information in required timeframes. To prioritise workload ensuring that required reports of a highly confidential nature are provided as requested inclusive of but not limited to, agendas, minutes, meeting notes, telephone call logs, complaint statements, StEIS and Serious Incidents Requiring Investigation reporting documentation, are all saved to a groups folder, so all staff are able to access. Do not save any documentation to your own personal folder. To act as a point of contact within the Care Group, Trust and to external users ensuring that communication links are maintained at all times. The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens Knowsley and Southport Ormskirk Hospitals. From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals. The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales. Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care: CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate ​​​​​​SAFETY that is of the highest standards COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients Our achievements include: Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018 Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers Health Service Journal) Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing AHP Preceptorship Programme KEY DUTIES To organise and manage the diaries of the Care Group Senior Management Team providing a first-class administrative service and ensuring their daily workload and priorities are met. Manage any generic mailboxes and calendars within the Care Group as requested by the Management team. Plan and organise meetings for the Care Group Management Team, liaising with staff across multidisciplinary settings. Arrange and circulate agendas and any paperwork that is required, ensuring this is available for the meeting in appropriate format. Keeping attendance lists. This is also inclusive but not limited to, taking minutes at any required meeting, type and distribute electronic or hard copies of minutes. Typing back at meeting recordings as requested. Ensuring the dissemination of information in required timeframes. To prioritise workload ensuring that required reports of a highly confidential nature are provided as requested inclusive of but not limited to, agendas, minutes, meeting notes, telephone call logs, complaint statements, StEIS and Serious Incidents Requiring Investigation reporting documentation, are all saved to a groups folder, so all staff are able to access. Do not save any documentation to your own personal folder. To act as a point of contact within the Care Group, Trust and to external users ensuring that communication links are maintained at all times. To produce and circulate rotas as requested by the Care Group Management Team. Including liaising with all levels of staff, internally and externally. To provide and assist in the collation of information for the management team, for weekend plan, Easter plan, Christmas plan and any other additional plans that may be required. To collate data when requested ensuring accuracy and timely submission. Produce high quality letters and reports using detailed knowledge of software packages such as Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. To co-ordinate additional activity payments for relevant specialities and ensure signed off appropriately with Manager. Ensure that any correspondence and communication is uploaded and recorded in real time on the Datix system for all complaints, telephone calls, incidents, panels, risk register, StEIS reporting as required by the management team. To be the cover for the Quality Governance Facilitator, and ensure focus for patients, relatives and carers, contacting them on receipt of complaint to explain the complaints process, agree timeframe. Communicate with all levels of staff to ensure statements are received and escalate to the Directorate Manager in a timely manner. Maintenance of annual leave and sickness records for Management Team and any teams that may fall within this remit, recording on either ESR, or eRoster Taking receipt of recording of travel claims and preparation of Staff Variation Lists (SVL) and ensure that ESR is kept up to date in real time. Arrange any training or education events, this includes booking venues and hospitality. Design Flyers and send information out in advance to attendees and keep a record of attendance. Copy typing or audio typing as appropriate within the role and directed by the management team to assist with meetings and any governance panels. Carry out any auditing or validation of care group data as and when requested by the management team Search the intranet and internet for particular policies and guidelines as requested by the Care Group Management Team. Working as a team to ensure that adequate stationary and relevant stocks within the department are kept to an acceptable level. Prepare Human Resources administration as necessary, including staff change of details forms, TRACs, variation forms, termination forms. Ensure that any new starters forms are completed, and orientation programmes are collating prior to a member of staff starting in post. Co-ordinate and monitor compliance with mandatory training and appraisal activity for the Care Group and reporting compliance. To undertake tasks delegated by the Managers to assist in meeting activity targets and delivering Key Performance Indicators, ensuring deadlines are met. Provide administrative and secretarial support to all Managers/Matrons within the Department and Trust in the absence of her/his secretary. Respond to requests for information from service users and others who call the department, in person or by telephone, with tact and sensitivity. Give appropriate non-clinical advice and refer on to the most suitable person, ensuring that all queries are followed up as soon as possible. Maintain accurate and efficient records, manage filing and brought forward systems. Suggest and implement new and improved systems and ways of working where this will improve efficiency and effectiveness. Deal effectively with mail, e-mails, telephone enquiries and facsimiles from within and outside of the Trust, communicating all relevant information to the Manager/Matron as appropriate. To co-operate with the introduction of new technologies. Ensure complaints are investigated in accordance with Trust Directive. To assist senior members of staff and all wards in ensuring targets are achieved. To provide day‑to‑day guidance to all staff involved in complaints handling. To work closely with Senior Members of the Care Groups and Complaints Co-ordinators and follow up statements daily with all disciplines of the Trust. Deal with telephone complaints appropriately. Ensure that matters of a confidential nature, including information relating to staff and patients, are not divulged to any unauthorised person. Take part in the Trust appraisal process, agreeing objectives and a personal development plan on a yearly basis. Attend mandatory training and maintain up to date administrative and secretarial skills. Partake in any training that may be recommended in terms of personal development. Retrieval of case sheets from Records Department as and when required, whether in hard copy or printing from system (EDMS) and also accessing the Trust’s Medway database for patient details and timelines as and when required. Deal with patient enquiries and pass on information either verbally or written. Cross Cover for all other administration staff within the care group management office in the absence of staff due to annual leave and sickness. To provide day to day supervision of admin staff within the team. Monitor and support with absence management, mandatory training and appraisals.