Band 4 Senior Business Assistant

To provide comprehensive, high level and specialist administration support to the Learning Disability & Autism Service Management Team, ensuring a professional and efficient administrative service is provided. The role is diverse, with each day bringing new challenges.,

• To manage the diaries of the allocated individuals or team, supporting them to use their time efficiently and effectively. This will include the scheduling of meetings and co-ordination of events.
• To provide high level administrative support to identified meetings, ensuring the timely receipt and circulation of papers, attend meetings, producing minutes of a high standard and managing and co-ordinating the completion of agreed actions, action logs and highlight reports.
• To manage the email correspondence of the allocated individuals or team, reading and responding on their behalf where appropriate and supporting them with the prioritisation of correspondence and responses.
• To support the allocated individuals or team with completion of actions and co-ordination of work, including projects, ensuring that actions of self and others are completed within required deadlines.
• A good awareness of Project Management principles, and to work with others to identify and produce plans that contain all the necessary detail for managing and delivering services and/or projects, identifying key actions and deadlines.
• To understand the aims and objectives of the organisation, working closely with the aligned service or managers to minimise their time undertaking administrative duties
  
  You will have proven ability in using your own initiative, working with confidential and highly sensitive information, showing attention to detail and the ability to work accurately, whilst understanding the importance of adhering to the Trust polices and local procedures.
A confident, professional personality with a can do attitude is a must! The successful candidate will have extensive experience working in a senior admin role capacity and be able to work cohesively with others to ensure you are maximising the efficient use of time, the resources of the service and with production of high quality effective reports, training materials and administrative systems and processes. This role offers the perfect bend of responsibility and flexibility with a hybrid remote set up, and the opportunity to be part of our uplifting and compassionate team culture.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.