Support Services Secretary

The successful candidate should be an experienced secretary / PA who will work for the Respite Team within the Learning Disability Service, based at St Mary's hospital, Armley, which is just outside of Leeds City Centre. The role is primarily focused around providing an efficient and effective secretarial service to a multi-disciplinary team under the direction of the Support Service Team Co-ordinator and assisting with incoming calls, greeting visitors, typing, coordination of meetings, PA work and taking minutes. This post will be extremely varied and challenging at times but is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic, well organised and conscientious person.

The work is part-time and shared across 2 respite units for people with a learning disability and either complex multiple impairments or challenging behaviours. There will be liaison with service users as well as the staff team so some understanding of the needs of service users would be beneficial., o Answering phone calls and giving non-clinical information to service users, carers, peers and third partieso Arranging meetings, taking minutes and supporting the chair with all aspect for admin duties including agenda preparationo Arranging transport for admissions and dischargeso Stores orderingo Preparing documentation for arranged respite admissions and dischargeso Coordination of informationo Organising staff supervision and appraisal meetingso Updating Mental Health Minimum Data informationo Keeping records updatedo Organisation of patient records, filing, photocopying, scanningo Preparing three monthly carers newslettero Supporting the Clinical Team Manager with staff and processes

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.As a teaching trust with strong links to local