Business Assistant - Inpatients

Job summary

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will possess excellent IT and audio-typing skills, good written and verbal communication skills, the ability to liaise with service users in a calm and compassionate manner and the ability to work positively and proactively as part of the wider administrative and clinical teams. As a Business Assistant, you will be required to attend meeting, taking minutes/notes of the meeting, circulating documentation including identifying actions ensuring they are logged, prioritised, and are followed up. You will be planning and organising training, appointments and events which will include co-ordinating travel arrangements and guest speakers. You will undertake diary management for yourself, and others and you will communicate effectively via email, including implementing a flagging/prioritisation system. You will be creating and formatting professional communications, such as letters, leaflets, presentations, reports and briefings to a high standard. You will be ordering goods or services, monitoring progress of orders, checking receipt of goods or services to ensure invoices can be reconciled. You will be dealing with complaints and using your own initiative to solve problems and escalating where necessary.

Job responsibilities

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.