Personal Assistant to Associate Director and Heads of Midwifery

Personal Assistant to Associate Director and Heads of Midwifery Band 4

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.

We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT
10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

We are looking for an exceptional PA to provide comprehensive and full administrative, clerical and secretarial support to the cross-site Associate Director of Midwifery and Heads of Midwifery and site-based Midwifery Matrons, in order to provide an efficient and cost effective service.

As well as having excellent communication skills and organisational abilities you will need to be a team player and have advanced IT skills, experience of working in a pressurised environment and the ability to work autonomously, prioritising your own workload and acting on your own initiative.

You will have the ability to undertake a large proportion of administrative duties exercising own initiative, discretion and skill. You will be a fantastic team player who can work flexibly with the Assistant Service Manager to ensure key daily/weekly/monthly tasks and reports are completed on time.

You must have a degree or equivalent in a relevant subject or significant previous proven experience of working in a similar area or you will not be shortlisted.

This post may close early if enough applications are received

You will be required to maintain confidentiality, adhere to information governance and ICT Security Policy by maintaining information sensitively, demonstrate discretion and respect at all times.

You will be able to communicate effectively with all members of the midwifery team, supporting and promoting teamwork through effective dissemination of information in addition to communicating

effectively with other departments, agencies and patients when appropriate and providing hospitality as required.

You will have the responsibility for the management of various administrative tasks on behalf of the Associate Director of Midwifery and…