Health care (SEND) Secretary/PA

Major Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Health care (SEND) Secretary/PA in Birmingham
Working hours: Standard
Location :Birmingham B1
Pay rate : �24.12
Job purpose
To ensure a consistently high quality support service to designated senior managers by carrying out a wide variety of administrative tasks, managing relationships and coordinating additional support where necessary. To develop and maintain an extensive knowledge of the work within the service area and across stakeholders to ensure the most appropriate and effective relationships are maintained

As a Personal Assistant, you will provide high level support to the Director of SEND & Inclusion within the Children & Families Directorate. This role also includes supporting the DfE appointed SEND Commissioner, John Coughlan. An honorarium will be included for these additional responsibilities.

This role will include:

• Complex diary management
• Robust email management to ensure timely responses to internal and external stakeholders.
• Forward planning to ensure the Director is appropriately briefed and prepared for meetings, including drafting and collating briefing notes and presentations.
• Management of meetings, including preparing agendas, completing minutes and monitoring actions to ensure they are completed in a timely manner.
• Being a confident decision maker who can maximise the time and attention of Senior Leaders by gate keeping correspondence, both internally and externally
• The role will require onsite working with a minimum of 3 days in the Council House each week.

The successful candidate will have a wide range of experience of all aspects of personal assistant responsibilities, be adaptable and self-motivated and have experience of building effective working relationships with senior stakeholders.

They will have excellent verbal and written communication skills with close attention to detail.

A willingness to be flexible and good organisational skills are essential, as is experience of working within tight timescales and managing conflicting priorities.

Respecting and preserving confidentiality will be key as well as the ability to thrive in a demanding, stimulating, and fast-paced environment.

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