Business Support Assistant - Learning Disability Service - Council HQ
- Location:
- Scottish Borders Council HQ, Main Building, Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
- Salary:
- £25,059.96 - £26,392.21 per year
- Contract Type:
- Permanent
- Position Type:
- Full Time
- Hours:
- 35 hours per week
Job Details
Grade: 4A
Hourly Rate: £13.73 - £14.46
Salary: £25059.96 - £26392.21 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Role Purpose
This post is based within the Learning Disability Service Business Support Team, SBC Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells.
This team is largely responsible for the administrative support to Social Work staff, NHS Clinical staff and Health and Social Care managers within the Community Learning Disability Team and working closely with those from partner agencies (Police, NHS Borders and Support Services) who work with those in our service.
Duties undertaken include:
• Telephone answering
• Being the first point of contact by telephone/email to the public and professionals
• Letter typing and distribution
• Minute taking and distribution
• Organising multi-disciplinary meetings
• Use of SBC applications such as Mosaic, Business World, Intranet, One Drive and Microsoft packages
• Use of NHS applications such as EMIS, SCI Gateway and MS Teams
• Scanning, uploading and filing
• Dealing with incoming and outgoing mail
• Monitoring of admin team mailboxes
• Completing Mosaic incoming work and tasks on EMIS
• Attending meetings
Essential
Minimum of 3 Standard Grades at level 1, 2, 3 (or equivalent) including English
Informal Enquiries
Informal enquiries may be made to Kerry Clark at kerry.clark8@nhs.scot
Scottish Borders Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all minority groups and individuals who identify with one or more of the protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. In particular from candidates who assess themselves as having a disability, under the Disability Confident Employer scheme this guarantees an interview to those individuals who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.
Scottish Borders Council is committed to providing support for Armed Forces Veterans. Showing its commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, the Council guarantees an interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.