HealthJobsUK

Job overview

This post provides administration support to the Senior Nursing Team, which currently includes the Head of Nursing Practice and Lead Nurses for Inpatient and Community Services and also the Internationally Educated Nurses Team.

The role is diverse and varied, including maintaining diaries and arranging meetings, taking formal minutes and keeping appropriate records, including databases, on the most up to date templates.

The Senior Nursing Team is responsible for setting and assuring nursing and clinical standards across the Trust, working with our operational colleagues. The team covers all aspects of nursing and wider clinical practice with particular focus on areas such as support to Matrons, Ward and Team Managers across the Trust,   non-medical prescribing, safer staffing and support for our internationally educated nurses.

The role is part of the supportive and friendly Nursing and Quality Directorate and as such benefits from networking and mutual support opportunities with the wider administrative team which supports the whole directorate.

Please see the Job Description, Person Specification and Key Local Information for more information. 

Main duties of the job

·       Excellent interpersonal skills 

·       A sound knowledge of Microsoft Word processing, Excel and effective processing of data

·       The ability to organise key meetings, events and conferences

·       Able to prepare supporting documentation

·       Ability to take accurate minutes and actions

·       Prepare and present complex reports in a range of formats

·       Able to plan own workload to meet regular deadlines

·       Ability to be flexible and responsive

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care. 

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.