Job Description

Job Overview

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Business Assistant to join our team at East Leicestershire Community Mental Health Team. This is an incredibly rewarding role working with a team who support people with mental health issues within the Melton and Rutland Area in East Leicestershire.


As a Business Assistant you will provide a comprehensive administrative service to the multi-disciplinary team within the community setting. You will be joining a welcoming team who work well together and support each other.


For this role, we are looking for people with great administration experience and strong communication skills with the ability to work on their own and in a team. You'll need to be highly organised with good planning skills and highly skilled in Microsoft Office. It is a very friendly environment, and we are looking for people who demonstrate our values of Compassion, Trust, Respect and Integrity.


The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.


We also offer:

A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days Free onsite parking Access to a wide range of additional benefits, such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance Health and Wellbeing Support

Contact Details:

Natalie Cozens, Administration Manager, natalie.cozens1@nhs.net, 07787333151

Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

Supporting a clinical team with but not limited to:


Managing referrals


Telephone and written correspondence with patients


Diary management


Preparing agendas and taking minutes


Organising meetings


Data inputting and creating spreadsheets


Other general administration duties

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us


Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.


We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.


Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.


We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.


For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).


All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.


For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.


Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.