Personal Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a friendly, proactive and conscientious individual to join us as a Personal Assistant.

To provide a highly autonomous business administration function to the Directorate, ensuring processes, systems and information are implemented, managed, analysed and presented in an effective and efficient manner to facilitate the optimum functioning of the Director and their Senior Leadership Team.

Main duties of the job

To provide and receive highly sensitive information from regarding directorate business including incidents and complaints through telephone, electronic and written communication.

Responsibility for organising the day to day running of the Director's services in a timely and efficient manner and acts as the first point of contact for all forms of communication, this may include dealing with highly complex issues, situations and information using highly developed communication skills such as tact, diplomacy and sensitivity.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.