Job Introduction
We are looking for a “Administrative Assistant” to support our head of services in primary care.
You will also be expected to work collaboratively with the primary care head of service to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of high-quality admin support.
Main Responsibility
As the administrative assistant, you will be:
- Preparing, collating, and distributing documentation and other communications ahead of meetings
- Preparing and producing various documents to a professional standard, including Excel and PowerPoint documents.
- Collecting and collating information/data from the services as required
- Arrange meetings, ensuring a smooth co-ordination from beginning to end.
- Co-ordination of other Senior Team diaries and meetings as required
- Liaising with staff at all levels and managing external relationships on behalf the Business Unit head as required
- Understanding business priorities, keeping up to date with any changes and subsequent requirements
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Highly motivated and a self-starter
- Basic IT and computer literacy skills
- Organisational skills with the ability to multitask
- Experience of working in a fast paced, high-volume environment
- Discretion and confidentiality
- Ability to network and use contacts
- Confident communicator at all levels
- Attention to detail
- Team player
- Pro-active and flexible approach
- Quick learner who can solve problems autonomously
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
- Working to tight/changeable deadlines
Desirable
- Knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths and English
Package Description
Rewards:
As an Administrative Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team.
You will feel valued as an Administrative Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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