Team Secretary/pa

The post holder will provide a secretarial/administrative service in support of the Adult Community Mental Health Team. To operate without direct supervision, using independent judgement and taking responsibility for the oversight and control of a defined workload.

At HPFT our staff are our most important resource and we offer:

- a thorough induction to your role and team
- regular, good quality supervision
- a range of developmental opportunities to support you to grow in your profession and your practice
- strong values - we’re a welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional organisation

HPFT are seeking to recruit an experienced Personal Assistant/Team Secretary to support the team

If you feel you have the skills to take on this challenging role then please apply. If you want to discuss the role then please contact Suzanne Gray

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
**Our Trust values are**:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on ”

We have exciting opportunities for an experienced Team Secretary to join us in delivering high quality community mental health care within the North West of Hertfordshire.

The area is well served with transport links to historic Hertfordshire and its glorious countryside as well as into London and beyond.

We have a vacancy in our multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team based in Dacorum serving the needs of people within this diverse locality.

We are seeking enthusiastic, compassionate people who hold a strong belief in recovery for people with severe and enduring mental health problems.

As a Team Secretary you will lead in the provision of a comprehensive, professional, effective secretarial administrative role. You will work closely with the Multidisciplinary team.

The Adult Community team is a dynamic, fast paced service. We are looking for someone who can use their initiative, possess mature judgement, and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner when dealing with service users, their relatives, colleagues and visitors. The role is complex and continually developing in order to meet the ever changing demands and needs of the service.

This role is pivotal to the service provision as it is often the first point of contact for people who want to access the service.