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Personal Assistant
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available)
Job ref
274-11754-COR
Employer
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trust HQ, St George's
Town
Lincoln
Salary
£27,485 - £30,162 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/11/2025 23:59
Interview date
25/11/2025

Employer heading

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Personal Assistant

NHS AfC: Band 4

Job overview

If you are a motivated and enthusiastic Personal Assistant with experience of providing support at a senior level, we have an exciting opportunity for you, based at our Trust’s Headquarters.

This role will require high levels of confidentiality, attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-moving and sometimes highly pressurised environment.

Applicants must have the ability to work on their own initiative, with little supervision, but at the same time play an integral role in the wider executive administration team, offering support to colleagues and others where required. Experience of formal minute taking is essential.

This is a full-time position based at Trust Headquarters in Lincoln.

We offer a fantastic benefits package, including flexible home working and NHS pension scheme, as well as access to staff wellbeing services.

For any further information regarding this role, please contact Claudia Croft, Office Manager and Executive Assistant to Chief Executive on 01522 309199 or via email [email protected]

Due to the UKVI immigration changes, we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Main duties of the job

To provide efficient and effective secretarial and administrative support to the Executive Team and specifically to two executive directors.

To provide efficient and effective administrative and minuting support to Board Committee and subgroup meetings.

The post holder will be expected to act on their own initiative and provide cross cover/support for other team members as necessary in order to facilitate effective service function.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy lifeVisit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

 We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

•            Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

•            Competitive annual leave allowance

•            Car leasing scheme

•            NHS pension scheme

•            Free eye tests

•            Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

•            Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RSA III / Diploma level qualification in Word processing and shorthand or equivalent in typing/word-processing.
  • NVQ 4 in Business Administration or equivalent experience.
  • English language ‘O’ level/GCSE or equivalent.
  • Willingness to undertake additional training as necessary.
  • Audio Typing
Desirable criteria
  • Shorthand RSA III.
  • Shorthand skills of at least 60wpm

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant experience with all Microsoft ‘Office’ packages.
  • Relevant secretarial experience
  • Experience in working with senior managers and in managing confidential issues and matters.
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills
  • Experience of co-ordinating and collaborative working.
Desirable criteria
  • Diary Management including electronic diary management
  • Previous experience in a medical or NHS setting.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent organisational skills.
  • Diary management skills.
  • Ability to take and produce formal minutes of meetings at a senior management level
  • Ability to adapt to change and to develop services and systems to meet changing requirements.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  • To be able to travel without the use of public transport to participate in meetings and training in other parts of the county

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Sunflower Hidden DisabilitiesTimewise-Flex Positive EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeAccessAbleStonewall Gold 2022Dying to Work CharterStep into healthCarer Confident -AccomplishedNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkOne Workforce Lincolnshire ICSDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldPastoral Care Quality AwardStonewall Top 100 2024Stonewall Bronze Award 2024Wellness WellbeingNet Zero

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Claudia Croft
Job title
Executive Assistant to Chief Executive
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01522 309199
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