Job Description

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Grade UE05- \xc2\xa325,742-\xc2\xa329,605

College/School/Department- CMVM/Deanery of Clinical Sciences/Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Fixed-term 36 months, 21 hpw

Fixed Term 3 years

We are looking for an experienced PA/Administrator to provide a comprehensive, organised, responsive, proactive and flexible PA service to a busy clinical academic Professor, including support for joint UoE/NHS clinical service within the Anne Rowling Clinic.

The Opportunity:

This is a part-time (0.5FTE role) to provide support for a senior academic with significant University and NHS commitments. In addition to managing diary, travel, correspondence and recording academic activities, you will provide secretarial support for NHS clinics including dictated letters, fielding complex and sensitive patient enquiries, and organising multi-disciplinary clinics. There will also be scope to arrange events and tours. You will join the dynamic and supportive Anne Rowling Clinic team of approximately 25 staff.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• A relevant vocational qualification and two years\' relevant work experience OR school education to Standard Grade/National 5 (or equivalent) plus three years\' relevant work experience.
• Secretarial and/or administration experience; particularly NHS experience
• Ability to plan, prioritise, take initiative and find proactive solutions, contribute new ideas to projects, work unsupervised, under pressure and multitask effectively
• Able to provide a high-level of customer service in a busy environment with a friendly and approachable manner.
• A proficient user of standard office systems including MS Office (Excel and Word) and standard email applications.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Prof David Hunt (David.Hunt@ed.ac.uk).

As part of this application you will be required to submit a one page document outlining how you meet the essential criteria, as outlined on the job description.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

The Anne Rowling Clinic at the University of Edinburgh offer an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits , staff discounts, , flexible working and much more. Access our for further information and use our to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held in due course.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow\'s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team:

The Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences ( ; Director Professor Siddharthan Chandran) is part of Edinburgh Neuroscience and Edinburgh Medical School. CCBS comprises the Divisions of Clinical Neurosciences (Head: Professor Siddharthan Chandran), Psychiatry (Head: Professor Daniel Smith) and Neuroimaging Sciences (Head: Professor Joanna Wardlaw). Our work integrates laboratory science, data science, health informatics and clinical research to study the causes, consequences and treatment of all major neurological and psychiatric disorders. Methodological strengths include neuroimaging, clinical trials, neuropathology, neuropsychiatric genetics and regenerative neurology.

We have 56 Principal Investigators, 70% of whom are NHS clinicians, grounding our work in clinical need and facilitating translation into patient benefit. We produce more than 500 research outputs per year, leading to improved patient care and NHS policy changes, with substantial impact on morbidity and mortality. CCBS researchers attracted \xc2\xa349M in external funding over the last three years and we collaborate globally, leading national and international consortia in neurodegenerative disorders, global mental health, psychiatric conditions, stroke and small vessel disease.

With bases at Edinburgh BioQuarter, Royal Edinburgh Hospital and Western General Hospital, CCBS locations link laboratory and clinical science with informatics, public engagement and commerce to facilitate creative interdisciplinary working. CCBS hosts c.60 postgraduate students, mostly PhDs. We are particularly strong in clinical PhD training, with bespoke funding schemes (e.g. Rowling Scholars), and we host the Wellcome Translational Neuroscience Doctoral Training Programme. Through generous philanthropic support, CCBS has established many specialist research hubs that are expanded by community fundraising and which engage closely with patient groups, policy-makers and public.

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