Secretary - Mental Health Support Team | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 08 Mawrth 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Burnley, BB10 2PQ |
| Cwmni: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7856580/351-BAY943-SRP |
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The Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Secretary will provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Mental Health Support Team (MHST), ensuring the smooth and effective running of the service. This includes supporting practitioners, managers, consultants and partner agencies with a wide range of administrative tasks.
The role requires strong organisational, communication and IT skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work independently as well as part of a team. A professional and compassionate approach is essential when handling sensitive information and communicating with children, young people, families and partner services.
Provide a full secretarial and administrative service to MHST practitioners, consultants and managers, including accurate word processing, correspondence, reports and meeting papers.
Support the organisation of multi-disciplinary meetings, including preparation of agendas, note-taking, accurate minute writing and timely distribution of actions.
Maintain accurate and up to date electronic patient records (IAPTUS), ensuring data quality and compliance with Trust and NHS standards.
Manage incoming and outgoing correspondence (email, post and telephone), prioritising urgent matters appropriately.
Process referrals in line with agreed protocols and liaise with education settings, GP practices and other partner agencies where required.
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here:Keeping our workforce well
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Mar 2026