Personal Assistant

Job Title: Personal Assistant Location: St Pancras Hospital, NW1 0PE Hours: 37.5 (Monday to Friday, 9-5) £16.55ph Trust Location: Camden and Islington’s NHS Foundation Trust This is a temporary placement, lasting up to 6-months. What you’ll be responsible for: 1. Liaise confidently and courteously with all levels of staff within the Trust, including Executive Directors, Clinical Directors and Assistant Directors, external organisations, and individuals as necessary. 2. Co-ordinate and arrange meetings as requested, ensuring up to date information is given to relevant members of staff. To pre-empt collation of agendas and distribute prior to meetings as required. 3. Operate a ‘bring forward’ system, printing relevant papers in advance of meetings. 4. Take and transcribe clear and concise minutes at various meetings as required, ensuring these are promptly distributed. 5. Take messages where necessary and act as the first point of call for the designated senior managers in their absence, taking appropriate action as required and ensuring that any urgent issues are brought to the attention of an alternative Director / Manager or senior member of staff as appropriate. You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust: 1. An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS 2. Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times 3. A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation You’ll have the following skills/experience: 1. Significant PA/Secretarial experience at Senior Manager level. 2. Experience of planning and organising meetings and minute taking. 3. Experience of dealing with highly sensitive and complex confidential information. 4. Advanced level of MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook) 5. Experience of working with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-mail and the internet, utilising high level IT skills to produce required content. This role may require you to show evidence of education at degree level or at least 2 years relevant experience. As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits: · Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week · Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime · Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts · Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone · Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements · Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more · Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us · Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours Who are NHS Professionals? We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members. As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply. Apply Today By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas. Disclaimer Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion. NHS Professionals manage your data, please see our Privacy Notice on our website