Team Leader

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and dedicated team leader will enjoy challenges in doing a variety of tasks. The post holder will be responsible to provide a full range of administrative support to the team. They will support the Operational Manager clinical team to ensure that the service runs effectively and efficiently and that referrers, partners, service users and their families/carers experience a responsive and friendly service.

The post will be pivotal in providing administrative support to the team in the establishment of the community division clinical support portfolio.

The post holder will be required to work with minimum supervision and take the initiative in prioritising their workload to ensure service objectives and deadlines are met.

Experience is management of staff is an essential requirement.

Main duties of the job

The primary responsibility of the post holder will be to provide an efficient and responsive secretarial, administrative and organisational service to Community Services Division

The post holder will develop, maintain and monitor effective office and information systems. The post holder will undertake projects and functions as agreed by the Services Manager.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring the effective administration of the Childrens and Young Peoples services, agendas, taking minutes. Line management responsibilities for the admin staff within the service line.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.