PA to Enfield Associate Director of Nursing & MHSOP Service Lead

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We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

An secondment opportunity to work with the The Enfield Mental Health Division for Adults for 7months has arisen.

We are looking for a positive, reliable and flexible individual to join the team, this role will provide a comprehensive administrative support to the Enfield Senior Service Lead Acute of Adult Services and Enfield Lead of Psychology and Psychological Therapies as well a working with the operational/ senior managers in Enfield.
This post will be based in Chase Building, Chase Farm Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will have had previous experience in a secretarial/administrative role who has excellent administration skills with knowledge of a range of admin procedures and software as well as
trust policies. They must be confident and competent managing conflicting priorities using their initiative and problem solving skills, with an ability to respond to unexpected demands and work with minimal supervision.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure you read the person specification (attached to the job description) as your application will be judged against this.

The ideal candidate will need to have experience in:
• Diary Management
• Audits
• Meeting/event organisation
• Implementing and completing actions
• Liaising with managers/staff across the trust
• Rio trained
• Agenda preparation
• Minute taking
• Good organisational skills
• Have excellent communication skills
• Ability of multi-task
• Have good attention to detail

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in area.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Full range of administrative procedures, software programmes
• Relevant Trust policies and procedures
• PA Experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• 2 years NHS experience
• Managing busy workload and conflicting priorities
• Handling confidential and sensitive information in accordance with the Data Protection Act

Desirable criteria

• 2 years NHS experience of working in a mental health setting.

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Extensive use and knowledge of all Microsoft Office programmes; Outlook, Word, Excel and Publisher.
• Demonstrate a high standard of telephone liaison, interpersonal, organisational and communication skills
• Clear communicator with good writing, and telephone skills ensuring accuracy at all times
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands

Desirable criteria

• Extensive use and knowledge of RiO

Emotional effort

Essential criteria

• Occasional exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances, office conditions

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• PA ADON and MHSOP Service Lead (PDF, 301.5KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 178.7KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)