To be actively involved in providing a pharmacy medicines management service to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. To ensure the p.....
To be actively involved in providing a pharmacy medicines management service to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. To ensure the provision of a comprehensive, confidential, accurate and timely secretarial and administrative service to the service manager and team members.
To assist the team in the delivery of strategic objectives incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
Shortlisting planned for: 17 July 2024
Interview planned for: 26 July 2024
1. Work with others in the medicines management administration team to develop and maintain appropriate administrative systems.
2. Provide high quality, confidential business support to the Associate Director of Medicines Management for Clinical Services.
3. Ensure the efficient coordination, prioritisation and achievement of short- and long-term goals related to the medicines management service.
4. Meet regularly with senior members of the medicines management team with regard to day-to-day operations and to ensure that paperwork is authorised in a timely manner.
5. Develop and maintain dashboards showing team performance against established key performance indicators.
6. Use own initiative to prioritise workload and escalate conflicting priorities to managers as appropriate.
7. Act as a key point of contact for senior members of the medicines management team.
8. Respond to all telephone, e-mail and general enquiries ensuring that appropriate messages are emailed, or action is taken, and referring to the relevant member of the medicines management team as necessary.
9. Receive and process all incoming mail and distribute to the relevant member of staff. Prioritise the mail ensuring all urgent issues are brought to the manager’s attention and take action as directed by the manager.
10. Ensure that all relevant staff are kept informed and updated on any issues/queries and seek clarification on what information requires immediate action.
11. Please refer to JD for more information
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
-Prepare papers and agendas for meetings as required. Attend and transcribe minutes and distribute accordingly. Set deadlines for typing/ checking the notes and gathering agenda items to ensure timely distribution of paperwork.
-Co-ordinate the arrangement of meetings, visits, assessments and appointments for team members, both internally and externally. Organise hospitality and/or overnight accommodation if required and make necessary transport arrangements.
-Develop and maintain comprehensive filing and electronic filing systems for information received.
-Maintain appropriate supplies for the team, being responsible for all necessary ordering of supplies/ equipment.
-Complete stock and non-stock requisitions, order goods services and/or equipment for the team and act as authorised signatory where appropriate.
-Maintenance of computerised and paper-based staff records including annual leave, sickness absence, time off in lieu, bank shifts, overtime and carers leave. Receive and process invoices, in line with departmental procedures and policies, keeping a record of invoices paid.
Please refer to JD for job description and main responsibilities.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Jul 2024