Medical Pa

Are you looking for a part-time admin job in the heart of Sussex?

Do you want to play a key role in supporting our medical team within a vital Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service?

An opportunity has arisen for a Medical Personal Assistant to join our CAMHS admin team at Chalkhill Hospital on a part-time basis (3 days a week).

This post offers you an exciting and interesting career development opportunity, where you will be joining a service that prioritises training and support for our admin professionals at your own pace.

If this sounds good to you and you have any type of secretarial or PA experience, we'd love to hear from you

You will be providing secretarial, clerical and administrative support to the Consultant Psychiatrist and associated medical team, including but not limited to:

- Providing an excellent personal assistant service to the Consultant
- Maintaining electronic service user records on the appropriate Trust software packages in order that all information is up to date
- Diary management
- Taking meeting minutes as necessary
- Being first point of contact for all face-to-face and telephone enquiries from a broad spectrum of people
- Providing a highly professional, confidential messaging service and taking follow up action as appropriate (including highly sensitive and complex information)
- Liaising with GP’s, mental health services, voluntary service agencies, social services, police, probation and other appropriate agencies or individuals with regard to service user issues
- Carrying out other general office duties

Chalkhill is one of the country's leading hospitals for treating children and young people with acute mental health problems and eating disorders. We're based at the Princess Royal Hospital site in Haywards Heath and have been here since 2009.

Our centre is Sussex’s only mental health inpatient unit for young people, supporting over 8,750 children and adolescents each year.

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

**Your benefits**:

- Free parking on-site
- Access to a host of discount schemes
- Excellent NHS Pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
- A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC

**REQUIREMENTS**:
In order to be a successful Medical PA in our team, you will have:

- A relevant NVQ Level 3 qualification / RSA 3 or equivalent
- Extensive knowledge of a full range of secretarial procedures
- Knowledge of software programmes / packages
- Previous experience in a similar role

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please note this post is for 22.5 hours per week.