Personal Assistant

We have an excellent opportunity to employ a permanent, part-time band 4 Personal Assistant (PA)/Administrator to join our team.

The role is to provide PA support to the Director of Research and Innovation and administrative support to other managers within the research and innovation team in CNTW. You will work closely with administration colleagues across the Trust and with partner organisations.

You will need to be highly motivated, enthusiastic with a 'can do' attitude and have previous experience of working in a personal assistant/administrative role at a similar level., You will possess excellent organisational, secretarial and communication skills. You will need to proactively manage diaries with utmost discretion, anticipating the needs of the Director. The ability to effectively prioritise constantly changing workloads is a must, as is the need to act on your own initiative.

You will arrange and take notes at meetings and must be able to take and accurately transcribe notes from complex discussions. You must also be proactive to follow up on actions from the meetings and collate papers for circulation.

You will have extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams and how they are used in an office environment. You will possess up to date administration skills and be able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail and accuracy in your work.

You will have excellent communication, negotiation, and organisational skills with the ability to work within agreed parameters with minimal supervision managing competing priorities to complete tasks and work requests.

You will undertake a wide variety of complex admin tasks including coordinating training courses, monitoring tasks within the central inboxes and maintaining service-specific records.

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.