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Job Title: Personal Assistant Department(s): Acute Sector – Laboratory Medicine Hours:...
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Job Title: Personal Assistant
Department(s): Acute Sector – Laboratory Medicine
Hours: 30.0 hours per week.
Band/Salary: Band 4 - £25,914-28,189, pro-rata
We are looking for an experienced Personal Assistant to provide a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service within Laboratory Medicine for the Laboratory Management Team. This post will involve the post holder using their own initiative and require continual decision-making as well as the ability to initiate and follow up a wide range of issues. Issues arising may be from correspondence, meetings and will require direct allocation of projects and tasks which will provide daily challenges along with a varied and interesting workload.
Applicants are required to have a good standard of education including English along with demonstrable experience of working in a senior secretarial position within a large and complex organisation. In addition, knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office, Teams and Email is essential, along with the ability to organise and minute meetings. Applicants should be capable of creating effective documents and templates including memos, letters, reports, tables and charts on various work processing packages using their own initiative on presentational layout. Familiarity with medical terminology will be advantageous. Applicants should be able to demonstrate a high level of confidence to enable effective decision-making and build credible and productive working relationships with a wide range of people, in particular senior medical staff.
For further details, please contact, in the first instance, Glenn Ross, Laboratory Directorate Quality Manager (ext 53891 or glenn.ross@nhs.scot) or George King , Principal Scientist/ Unit Operational Manager (ext 52469 or George.King@nhs.scot).
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
