SWLA Business Support Assistant - COVID-19

An award winning organisation with over 9000 employees across services in North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Essex, we are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers.

What can we offer you?

• Our SOOTHE resources are supporting staff across the trust with their physical and mental health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.

• Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters

• Annual Big SOOTHE week provides time to reflect on the demands following the pandemic and connect with others to feel able to face future challenges as we move forward.

• “In our Gift” provides a platform for your voice to be heard to implement change

• Purchase additional annual leave as well as wellbeing days

• Career development opportunities and coaching

• Access to in house training programs, leadership management and NVQ qualifications as well as our wellbeing and recovery college

• Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)

• Flexible working wherever possible including opportunities for homeworking

• Opportunities to connect of important issues such as Sustainability and digital working

• Empower and engage our staff with LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and STAFF Surveys

• Cycle to work scheme

• Commitment to create a more diverse and inclusive organisation through our Staff Equality Network

• NHS pension scheme

• You would be eligible for NHS discounts including blue light card and red guava

Post: SWLA Business Support Assistant

Hours: 37.5

Base: Lichfield – mix of blended base and remote working

MPFT offers a comprehensive induction and support package with your wellbeing and career development in mind. You will be auto enrolled into the Social Work Learning Academy membership, supporting workforce career development and aspirations, with strong leadership and support in place encouraging you to be the best that you can be.

We are a forward thinking Trust and understand that your work and life balance need to complement each other to promote your enhanced wellbeing and for us as an employer to get the best out of you. We are open to negotiate flexible working options together with a mix of blended working arrangements to allow base and remote working. The Trust are committed to listening to our employees to effect change in working practices/arrangements and packages offered in response to the ever changing social and economic environment in which we work.

The Social Work Learning Academy are looking for an experienced Business Support Assistant to join their busy business support team. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of an expanding team supporting our social care workforce to be best that they can be and playing a key part in the continuing expansion and development of the Social Work Learning Academy.

The Social Work Learning Academy is hosted within MPFT but is jointly run in partnership with Staffordshire County Council and is at the heart of the social care profession supporting the Adult Social Care and Safeguarding Workforce across North and South Staffordshire with staff learning and development and providing an overall governance of all adult social care practice across the Trust and the Local Authority. With the SWLA primary Hub in Lichfield and spoke sites at Leek Moorlands and Stafford we are looking to grow our team to support new and exciting future opportunities and run an Academy of excellence supporting the social care profession day to day.

You will require excellent communication skills and have considerable experience in managing a range of administrative functions with often competing demands and pressures. Good organisational and planning skills are crucial to this role as is the ability to juggle various tasks simultaneously to meet key deadlines. A keenness to understand the business and be innovative in assisting and being part of the SWLA’s future growth is essential.

If you are looking for a varied administrative post and have the necessary proven experience we would like to hear from you.

For further discussion/information please contact: Helen Walker on 07773 662585 helen.walker@mpft.nhs.uk