Business Support Officer inEdinburgh inEdinburgh PUBLISHED SAT 16 NOV 2024

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage

Post: Business Support Officer

Location: Pennywell All Care Centre

Salary: AfC Band 4 - 37 hrs per week – fixed term 20.01.2025 – 20.01.2026

• This post will be considered as both a secondment or fixed term opportunity**
  
  

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.

We anticipate a high number of applications, so early submission is recommended as post may be closed early.

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NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.