Personal Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 03/09/2026
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Role summary
This full-time Personal Assistant role supports the Mental Health Division Leadership Team at Norris Green Hub. The postholder will provide comprehensive administrative support, manage diaries, arrange meetings, and take minutes. The role requires excellent organisational skills, initiative, and the ability to work under pressure while maintaining confidentiality. Some travel between sites is also required.
Key responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive administrative support to the Mental Health Division Leadership Team.
- Manage diaries for the leadership team.
- Arrange internal and external meetings.
- Take comprehensive live minutes in meetings, prepare in advance, and chase outstanding actions.
- Produce reports and adhere to Trust Policies and Procedures.
Essential criteria
- RSA III (or equivalent) Word Processing.
- Proven competence in various IT packages.
- Business Administrator - Level 3 (or equivalent).
- Audio typing skills.
- Experience of working at a similar level with proven admin/secretarial skills
- Experience of proven competence in minute taking.
- Ability to exercise initiative and work with minimum supervision.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent inter-personal skills.
- Excellent telephone manner.
- Ability to ensure accuracy in work undertaken.
- Tact/diplomacy.
- Awareness of pressures requiring organisational and time management skills.
- Understanding of people suffering from mental illness
Desirable criteria
- RSA (or equivalent) Shorthand qualification at approx. 80wpm.
- ECDL qualification.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time (37.50 hours Monday - Friday) Personal Assistant to join our Administrative Team. The postholder will be based at Norris Green Hub, Falklands Approach, Liverpool, L11 5BS.
The post holder will provide comprehensive admin support to Mental Health Division Leadership Team supporting Microsoft Teams meetings however may be required to attend face to face meetings across the Division.
Successful applicants will be able to organise their own workload and co-ordinate workload activities within the team. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills.
There is a need to be able to work to tight deadlines and withstand the pressure of a busy department and it is essential that you are able to work on your own initiative.
Some travel between sites is also required.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to work with the minimum of supervision. They will be able to demonstrate flexibility and use own initiative to carry out duties in such a way as to make a direct and positive contribution to the organisation, thus enabling the leadership team to utilise their time in an efficient and effective manner.
As an experienced Personal Assistant/Secretary, you will be managing diaries of the leadership team. You will be required to arrange internal and external meetings.
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