Team Secretary

The post holder will administratively support an extensive range of functions within the clinical services, including Service Leads, minuting meetings, general admin work.
The successful applicant 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.
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 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 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.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the recruitment team to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team is able to prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

We are looking to recruit a full time Team Secretary to work in the Mental Health team at HMP Altcourse
It is a busy role and so the successful candidate will need to have excellent organisational skills and be able to prioritise workload on a daily basis due to competing deadlines. You will work closely alongside your colleagues who will guide and assist you in preparing for audits and any reports that need submitting.
You will be motivated, flexible and committed to being part of a team that is dedicated to providing the highest possible standards of care to our patients. The successful applicant will have the ability to work on their own, to prioritise their workload and work to tight deadlines.

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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is 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.