Team Secretary

This is a busy and interesting post that requires a high level of confidentiality, accuracy, responsiveness support the Clinical Service.

The post holder will administratively support an extensive range of functions within the clinical services, including Service Leads, supporting the two wards and there will be regular Cashier duties. The working hours for this post is Monday to Friday 9am to 5.00pm.

This post is based on site to support the Clinical Service. Can you please ensure that you have all the relevant qualifications that you note on your application as these will need to be produced if successful to Trac.

The successful applicants will be strong team players with a high level of organisational and interpersonal skills. They will be well organised and have the ability to work to competing deadlines and priorities. The post holder will be required to work flexibly, have the ability to establish good working relationships and deal with a wide range of professionals via telephone, written and face to face contact.

You will be required to support our two wards and Ward Managers. You will spend time on the wards supporting the clinical team and ensuring that the administration of the ward is fully supported.

The post holder will have demonstrable experience of preparing for and taking minutes plus the production and upkeep of action logs. Preparation for meetings will include chasing up outstanding reports and actions in advance of meetings. The role will require the post holder to travel to Divisional and Trust locations to support Divisional meetings.

The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint and will have experience of using Service databases and clinical information systems.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Teresa Colbon Job title: Capacity and Flow Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0151 459 5625