239510 Business Support Officer

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** This post is a job share, and will work collabratively with another member of the Business & Adminstration Quit Your Way Team **

Are you an excellent minute taker? Do you have administrative experience and want to develop your skills further? If so, we would love to hear from you and discuss an opportunity to come and work with us.

The Business and Administration Division provides administration, clerical and project support to professional colleagues working in Public Health and Health Policy. This role carries out tasks that could be described as PA type tasks, but our role is much more than that. We are looking to attract candidates that have significant experience in carrying out business and administration type tasks. As a service, we will support and encourage you to develop your administration skills. In return we will help develop your administation, secretarial and clerical skills. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team of staff, developing your own skills and supporting the wide range of functions that Public Health and Health policy provide. Public Health and Health Policy – NHS Lothian | Our Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to become a member of the Business & Administration Team and provide administration support to the Quit Your Way Tobacco Control Team. This post would complete administrative tasks that will support the Tobacco Control Practitioners delivering a high-quality service to their patients. The post would also be updating the National Smoking Cessation database with valuable performance data from the service contributing to Quit Your Way working towards the Local Delivery Plan (LDP) Standards. In addition to this, you will provide administrative support to both the QYW community and acute teams and will be based in Pennywell All Care Centre but post holder, with an expectation to travel to across other sites within NHS Lothian.

Importantly, the post will undertake direct line management duties of Business Support Assistants within the team and will support the wider B&A team, with cross-skilling applied across B&A functions to ensure sufficient level of cover in place to meet service demands.

Quit Your Way is a service within the Public Health & Health Policy Department, who strives to support individuals throughout their journey to quit smoking. This service provides stop smoking support during both the prevention and cessation stages. The post-holder will work closely with the Senior Managers, Tobacco Control Project Managers, Tobacco Control Practitioners. As well as providing support to the wider Quit Your Way and Business & Administration Team.

Please note: As this post is part-time, the salary will be pro-rata.

For further information and an informal discussion please contact [email protected] or [email protected]