Business Support Officer

**Business Support Officer**:
**Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Administration
- **Grade**
- Band 4
- **Contract**
- Fixed term: 9 months
- **Hours**
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-712**Site**
- Carew House
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £25,147 - £27,596 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_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _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**:
We are looking for an organised and enthusiastic individual to join us within Workforce Resourcing to cover a 9 month period of maternity leave.

The successful applicant will be proactive with efficient admin skills and excellent customer service skills.

If you'd like an informal conversation, please contact Sally Wilson on 07738383831

**Interview date: to be confirmed**

**Main duties of the job**:
This is a pivotal post within Workforce Resourcing and requires the post holder to be able to provide comprehensive secretarial and admin support to the Associate Director of Workforce. The post holder will
be responsible for the line management, support and supervision of Workforce Resourcing staff when requested.

This role is responsible for dealing with the day to day office and service issues, ensuring appropriate reporting and action is taken and relevant people informed. The post holder will work under the guidance
of the Associate Director of Workforce or by delegation, managers within Workforce Resourcing to establish and take responsibility of office systems to ensure that the business of Workforce Resourcing is undertaken
in an efficient and effective manner.

This is fast moving post requiring someone who can manage their time effectively and multi-task to ensure deadlines are met and work carried out to a high standard.

**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 support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**: