Team Secretary

The post holder will administratively support an extensive range of functions within the clinical services, including Service Leads, supporting the two wards and there will be regular Cashier duties. The working hours for this post is Monday to Friday 9am to 5.00pm.
This post is based on site to support the Clinical Service. Can you please ensure that you have all the relevant qualifications that you note on your application as these will need to be produced if successful to Trac., You will be required to support our two wards and Ward Managers. You will spend time on the wards supporting the clinical team and ensuring that the administration of the ward is fully supported.
The post holder will have demonstrable experience of preparing for and taking minutes plus the production and upkeep of action logs. Preparation for meetings will include chasing up outstanding reports and actions in advance of meetings. The role will require the post holder to travel to Divisional and Trust locations to support Divisional meetings.
The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint and will have experience of using Service databases and clinical information systems., You will be required to support our two wards and Ward Managers. You will spend time on the wards supporting the clinical team and ensuring that the administration of the ward is fully supported.
The post holder will have demonstrable experience of preparing for and taking minutes plus the production and upkeep of action logs. Preparation for meetings will include chasing up outstanding reports and actions in advance of meetings. The role will require the post holder to travel to Divisional and Trust locations to support Divisional meetings. The successful candidate will also support the cash office and the two wards at Rathbone Hospital.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

This is a busy and interesting post that requires a high level of confidentiality, accuracy, responsiveness support the Clinical Service., The successful applicants will be strong team players with a high level of organisational and interpersonal skills. They will be well organised and have the ability to work to competing deadlines and priorities. The post holder will be required to work flexibly, have the ability to establish good working relationships and deal with a wide range of professionals via telephone, written and face to face contact., The successful applicant will be motivated, responsive and committed to being part of a team that is dedicated to providing the highest possible standards of care to our patients.

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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.