Team Secretary

**Team Secretary**:
**Band 3**:
**Main area**
- Administrative
- **Grade**
- Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 28 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-778-A**Site**
- St Austell Hospital
- **Town**
- St Austell
- **Salary**
- £20,330 - £21,777 Pro rata
- **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**:
If you are friendly, outgoing, and enthusiastic about bladder and bowel health in children, young people, and adults, we would love to hear from you. We are the Bladder and Bowel Specialist Service team covering Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, and we are looking for the right person to join our friendly team. This role adds to our very experienced clinical and admin team, providing the following skills:

- Dealing with telephone enquiries
- Typing letters and booking clinic appointments
- Taking meeting notes and arranging meetings
- An ability to use electronic record keeping systems, especially RiO
- Using Excel and Word and a range of other Trustwide systems for ordering equipment and managing information
- Administrative team management and support

Please see job description for more information.

This role will be challenging and varied, but ultimately a rewarding role that will provide an opportunity, for the right person, to become a key member of the team. A high degree of flexibility is required to meet the day-to-day challenges of the service. Excellent time management, communication and people management skills are required as is a good sense of humour.

This post is 28 hours per week following standard office hours, based at St Austell Community Hospital. However, due to the recent pandemic, working from home continues to be encouraged.

**Main duties of the job**:
To work as a Team Secretary to ensure all secretarial and administrative support to the Bladder and Bowel Specialist Service Team is promptly met; this includes typing, taking phone calls, transcribing minutes of meetings and general day to day support.

To ensure effective lines of communication between the administrative team members, clinical team members, patients and others, whilst maintaining confidentiality at all times.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and suppo