Personal Assistant to Director for Women and Children

at  Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Act as first point of contact for all communications to the Director and deal with all such communications appropriately, including exchange of sensitive or contentious information. Assimilate, manage and communicate a wide range of information, some of which will be sensitive and complex and may involve matters relating to individual staff or patient matters or matters of commercial confidence. To provide an administration and secretarial service to Director and members of the Senior Management Team on a day-to-day basis. An excellent level of communication and relationship skills required to liaise with external organisations, to deal with a wide range of contacts e.g.
members of the public, Trust and Trust Directors and a range of members of other organisations e.g. local authorities and voluntary groups. To provide administrative support to committees and senior level meetings, including the provision of papers, information and arrangements including catering/venue/access/equipment requirements. Be responsible for taking minutes and ensuring appropriate follow up action is taken.
Be responsible for the effective management of electronic diaries, using own judgement to make necessary adjustments to ensure the Director can carry out their duties and that their time is focused and maximised at all times. Resolving conflicting appointments and arranging urgent meetings, which arise on a day-to-day basis. Prepare papers received via email prior to the meeting and confirming attendance or registering apologies. Check emails for request for attendance at meetings, acting independently co-ordinating availability as appropriate, re-arranging existing meetings to accommodate where required.
Acting on initiative, reply as necessary. Anticipate the needs of the Director, by arranging travel, finding directions or arranging accommodation if necessary. Prepare non stock orders requisitions for specialist goods and any ad hoc orders. Sourcing products and acquiring prices from suppliers and liaising with procurement team on lead times for delivery, and/or raise appropriate items on the organisations purchasing system.
Support budget holders in the monitoring of annual call off purchase orders for specialist services and raise non stock order requisitions accordingly. To support on the recruitment process for administration posts including short listing, interviewing, interview questions/test setting. To hold line management responsibility, such as Appraisals and objective setting for the Administration Assistant and Clerical officers within the admin team. Assessing staff performance against agreed performance standards/objectives and/or competencies at least annually and develop meaningful and achievable personal development plans and objectives and ensure that staff are up to date with all statutory and mandatory training.
Monitor sickness absence for the Divisional Admin team and record for analysis and reporting via the Trust system. Provide leadership responsibility, recognising and developing the teams through mentoring, coaching and training them to utilise the strengths to enhance the departments performance and build organisational capability. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately

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