Directorate Support Secretary

This post will support the Digestive Diseases Directorate Senior Management Team in ensuring the smooth running of the secretarial processes, specifically supporting the coordination and minuting of departmental meetings, support in collation of evidence required for the departments JAG accreditation, raising purchase requisitions and requests for Waiting List Initiative TI shifts, raising invoice payments, and supporting the Training Centre Manager with the coordination and facilitation of specialist courses.

The post holder will offer support in times of absence in order to ensure service delivery suffers no disruption. This is an ideal post for someone with secretarial experience looking to work in a small, busy, friendly team.

Key tasks include:

Liaising with other departments, raising invoices and purchase order requests, organising an electronic diary and managing room bookings, maintaining records, taking minutes at departmental meetings, operating a bring forward system, preparing papers for relevant meetings, typing of letters and correspondence, supporting the collation of evidence required by JAG and supporting the Training Centre Manager with the coordination and facilitation of courses run at UHNM. There may also be a need to provide support to the Endoscopy Booking Team on occasion.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Directorate Support Secretary to work in the Digestive Diseases Directorate at the University Hospital of North Midlands Trust. Based on the Royal Stoke site, however cross-site working at the CDC and County Hospitals may be required on occasion.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.