Personal Assistant

You must be an experienced Secretary with excellent interpersonal and well-developed communication skills to work within our busy department, assisting with the workload of the Directorate Managers and Matrons across the Surgical Care Group. Duties will include diary management, taking telephone calls, arranging meetings, attending meetings to take minutes and maintaining manual and electronic filing systems., To organise and manage the diaries of the Assistant Director, Directorate Managers Associate / Assistant Directorate Managers, Head of Quality, Governance Team and Matrons providing a first class secretarial service and ensuring their daily workload and priorities are met.o Manage any generic mailboxes and calendars within the Care Group as requested by the Management teamo Plan and organise meetings for the Care Group Management Team, liaising with staff across multidisciplinary settings. Arrange and circulate agendas and any paperwork that is required, ensuring this is available for the meeting in appropriate format. Keeping attendance lists. This is also inclusive but not limited to, taking minutes at any required meeting, type and distribute electronic or hard copies of minutes. Typing back at meeting recordings as requested. Ensuring the dissemination of information in required timeframes.

The successful candidate would need to be flexible, self-motivated and able to use their own initiative, as well as being an excellent organiser and communicator.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme