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Job reference: 118215
Salary: Band 3 (£21,709 - £23,603)
Job closing date: 09/10/2022
Job Type: Administrative Services
Location: Oban
Employment type: Fixed-term
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 05/09/2022
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Highland
Department: Enhanced Community Dementia Team

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 The Enhanced Community Dementia Service is looking to recruit to a full time dementia service secretary to cover sick leave for 6 months. The Enhanced Community dementia Service covers 3 areas across Argyll & Bute, Mid Argyll Kintyre and Islay, Cowal & Bute and Oban Lorn and Islands. This post will cover all three teams and base is negotiable.


The post holder will provide a comprehensive secretarial service to the dementia specialist team, typing correspondence and reports, following up any queries that may arise. As the single point of access(SPOA), take crisis calls and pass to relevant teams. The post holder will respond to the day -to- day requirements of the Enhanced Community Dementia Service as a whole.


Applicants should be able to demonstrate:

Computer literacy - ECDL preferred,

Previous NHS secretarial experience preferred,

3 credit standard grades which must include English and either secretarial studies or equivalent experience.

Ability to take own initiative and prioritising own tasks in complex situations and to meet multiple deadlines,

Ability to work independently and as part of a team,

Calm discreet, confidential, sensitive approach to dealing with patients.


Short-listed applicants  will be contacted by email.   Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

Informal enquiries to: 
Fiona Blair - Team Lead.
Email: fiona.blair@nhs.scot

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