Administrative Assistant (Professional Education Team) | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will provide comprehensive, efficient and effective administrative and secretarial service to the Professional Education Team
To develop good working relationships with all levels of staff (Trust wide and externally) in order to promote the work and services of the Professional Education Team.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the
Principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:
• Promote safe practices
• Value the aims of service users
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
• Value social inclusion

Accurately maintaining Advanced Clinical Practice database. Will involve administrative support to Preceptorship Team assisting in the management of the email inbox, master list database of preceptee activity, and support in collation of data for reporting purposes. Will be required to oversee the scheduling of Preceptorship events and subsequent booking of venues.

Will be required to support the wider Professional Education Team with administrative duties covering; Allied Health Professionals, Clinical Psychology and Nursing students, inclusive of direct communication with external Stakeholders and the management of student information and supporting reporting processes.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Generic Responsibilities for all staff:
All post holders will agree to:
Commit to the vision of supporting Mersey Care in becoming a leading organisation in the provision of community services, mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care, and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the objectives of the Trust.

Role model the values of the Trust – Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support– in all activities and interactions with employees, service users and other stakeholders

Challenge the stigma associated with mental health and learning difficulties.

Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: 'The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made.’

Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.

Maintain their specific knowledge base and develop new skills.

Value the contribution of the patient/ service user voice.

Operate within any organisational codes of practice or those from a relevant professional body.

Respect equality and diversity across all areas of working practice and communications with staff, service users and other stakeholders.

Take responsibility for the accurate and timely collection and recording of data and ensuring all personally identifiable information is protected and used only for the purposes for which it was intended.

Comply with all health and safety legislation and local policies and procedures.

Adhere to all organisational policies.

Have knowledge and understanding of technology in the workplace which is sufficient to maintain their efficiency and also how technology can empower service users in a digital environment.

Comply with the NHS Constitution in relation to the staff responsibilities that it sets out for NHS employees.

Attend a one day Just and Learning & Civility and Respect training workshop.

Be an ambassador for Just & Learning and Civility & Respect following the training.

Positively advocate the just and learning culture within your team.

Be a confident supporter and implementer of the Trust CARES Values including Civility & Respect within your team.

Support their team/services to create a positive environment for Just and Learning Culture.

Participate in Just and Learning Culture events.

Bring Just and Learning Culture updates/information to the attention of team members and other MCT colleagues they work with.

Support and encourage the sharing of concerns about the safety and quality of care with senior leaders with the aim of improving safety and quality.

Actively participate in creating an open culture within your team so that concerns and difficulties can be discussed safely and respectfully.

Speaking up in the event that they are exposed to incivility between colleagues in the workplace #iwillspeakup.

Listening and understanding others who have concerns and taking a collaborative approach to work towards a solution to improve civility and respect.

This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be reviewed in light of the changing needs of the Trust in consultation with the postholder.

This advert closes on Monday 8 Jun 2026