Team Secretary

**Team Secretary**:
**Band 3**:
**Main area**
- Administration
- **Grade**
- Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working

37.5 hours per week (full time, some home working maybe required.)
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-482-D**Site**
- Truro & Penzance
- **Town**
- Truro & Penzance
- **Salary**
- £20,330 - £21,777 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
To provide a full secretary service to a specific number of nurses and Medical Staff and to assist in the organisation of the teams workload and service delivery.

General Hospital services exist to meet the physical health needs of the population. However, significant numbers of older people admitted or referred to the general hospital will also have cognitive impairment and/or mental health problems in addition to their physical conditions. Such cognitive impairment and mental health problems in older people can influence care in a number of ways, including:

- Increased length of stay
- Increased risk of accidents, infection and confusion
- Repeated admissions

In addition, under recognition of the causes of common mental health and cognitive problems in older people and the failure to adequately treat and care for problems such as confusion in older patients can contribute to:

- Dissatisfaction with care
- Patient and Carer complaints
- The purpose of the Older Persons Psychiatric Liaison service based within the general hospital, integrated with physical health care is to:

- Improve patient safety
- Increase the quality of care
- Improve patient flow and the appropriate utilisation of resources
- Improve staff safety

The Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health Liaison provide mental health assessments and care planning services to patients over the age of 65, and for all patients who present with significant cognitive impairment problems.

This involves providing a broad range of specialist psychosocial assessments and treatments for individual patients, a specialist consultation liaison service to referring clinicians and clinical teams, assisting them in decision making in difficult and complex cases. The psychiatric liaison team provide informal education to qualified, unqualified and student / training healthcare staff. Staff within the service is also representing Cornwall Partnership Foundation NHS Trust in the general hospital setting and will play a vital role in communicating and maintaining a good working relationship between the two organisations.

**Main duties of the job**:
To provide a full secretary service to a specific number of nurses and Medical Staff and to assist in the organisation of the team’s workload and service delivery.

**Working for our organisation**: