Senior Administrator-Paediatric Therapy Services
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,460 - £31,909 pro rata per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Harrow, HA2 9DX |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6203566/333-G-HCS-0173 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Administrator to join Harrow Children’s Services administration team. We seek a highly motivated and committed administrator, who has excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills and a willingness to learn.
The successful applicant will work with members of the administration team supporting clinicians -therapy staff, he /she will have responsibility for monitoring and supporting the therapy pathway’s, he /she needs to have good time management skills, be self- motivated with a positive attitude. In addition to these skills all administrators need to be customer focused, have an excellent telephone manner and proven IT skills, knowledge of Systm 1 and the e-Referrals Service would be an advantage and have experience in using Microsoft programmes, such as Excel, Word and Outlook. .
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Previous applicants need not apply
The post holder will work as part of the Harrow Children’s Services administration team to provide a highly effective and competent level of administration support to the smooth running of Harrow Child Health Services with particular responsibilities to Paediatric Therapies(Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy)
He / She will co-ordinate the administrative functions of the Paediatric Therapy pathways on a day to day basis working closely with Therapy leads and broader clinical team to ensure effective administrative support.
The post holder will be the line manager of named administrative staff. This includes managerial supervision, delegation of tasks and responsibility for appraisal, as well as first line management of disciplinary or grievance issues.
This role will include the day to day management of Education Health and Care Plan database and communications to and from the Local Authority.
The post holder will be expected to assist in the organisation of the workload in therapy pathways and support audit and preparation of reports.
The post holder is responsible for managing their own workload with a flexible and adaptable approach to the job role in order to meet the changing service needs.
The post holder will have excellent interpersonal skills and have ability to communicate effectively and manage staff. In addition, the post holder must possess good IT skills and be able to analyse and interpret data.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Administrator to join Harrow Children’s Child Health Services administration team. We seek a highly motivated and committed administrator, who has excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills and a willingness to learn.
This is a permanent position within the service for 30 hours per week , Monday- Friday with some flexibility on work days/hours.
Harrow Child Health Services provide medical and therapy support to children and young people 0-19 years in the London borough of Harrow. The successful applicant will be joining a friendly, forward thinking team and will need to demonstrate resilience, identify areas for improvement, work to deadlines and use their initiative to manage conflicting priorities. There is a well established support , supervision and appraisal system in place which enables the successful candidate to enhance their personal development plan.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Taking on lead responsibility for the administration and delegation of tasks as appropriate for the following pathways: Paediatric Therapy Administration
This will include being the paediatric therapy staff contact point, organising EHCP requests for therapist in addition to day to day work supporting the Therapists.
• Providing input into the development and maintenance of Standard Operating procedures for the services for which the post holder holds the primary responsibility.
• To line manage named administrative staff as required, ensuring that staff provide the best possible level of support to clinicians. This includes managerial supervision, delegation of tasks and responsibility for appraisal, as well as first line management of disciplinary or grievance issues.
• Coordination of multidisciplinary clinics and meetings including maintenance of spreadsheets, team diaries, appointments, cancellations and room bookings as appropriate
• To be aware of the patients waiting times for allocated services by ensuring that patients are re-booked and seen both within waiting time targets and as necessary for clinical urgency, and to escalate to the Team Leader or Service Manager if this is not possible.
• Processing and analysing urgent and non-urgent data requests from clinicians and senior managers
• Processing multidisciplinary referrals through management of shared inboxes and on SystmOne, including preparation of appropriate paperwork for meetings /panels such as the Single Point of Referral Panel.
• Processing other urgent or complex referrals, including for the Child Protection medicals pathway as necessary.
• Supporting with routine, urgent or complex information-gathering for areas of the service where this is required such as SPOR or EHCP and utilising supervisory support from a clinician as appropriate
• Processing urgent and / or complex documents on Dictate IT or other similar dictation software
• Coordinating multidisciplinary meetings.
• Encouraging take up of clinical offers from services – for example making phone calls to families to describe and encourage attendance at workshops and parent programmes
• Processing urgent and / or complex documents on Dictate IT or other similar
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• Performing complex SystmOne tasks – for example the management of waiting lists, and the creation of new SystmOne templates and editable letters
• Responsibility for ensuring that data on pathways is up to date and has been completed correctly.
• The post holder will meet regularly if required with the Clinicians to collate and validate the status of patient pathway data.
• The post holder must ensure that all patient identifiable information is stored securely on the network drive.
• The post holder will have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Communicate professionally and effectively with a variety of people at all levels both internally and externally
• Collating and analysing data from Friends and Family Test and other patient surveys
• Incident reporting and feedback including support for inputting Datix’s
• To act as a Nominated Officer of Fire (NOF) within the building.
• To contribute to covering the duties of the admin manager in their absence as required.
• To cover the duties of other administration staff and to perform less complex tasks across teams as required
• To demonstrate a commitment towards their own personal development
• To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained and confidentiality with regard to the business of the services at all times
• The post-holder will have to receive, provide and process a wide variety of sensitive, contentious and highly confidential information, which should be processed professionally in line with the nature of the information in question.
• To undertake any other duties commensurate with grade and status.
This advert closes on Friday 26 Apr 2024
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Administrator to join Harrow Children’s Services administration team. We seek a highly motivated and committed administrator, who has excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills and a willingness to learn.
The successful applicant will work with members of the administration team supporting clinicians -therapy staff, he /she will have responsibility for monitoring and supporting the therapy pathway’s, he /she needs to have good time management skills, be self- motivated with a positive attitude. In addition to these skills all administrators need to be customer focused, have an excellent telephone manner and proven IT skills, knowledge of Systm 1 and the e-Referrals Service would be an advantage and have experience in using Microsoft programmes, such as Excel, Word and Outlook. .
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Previous applicants need not apply
The post holder will work as part of the Harrow Children’s Services administration team to provide a highly effective and competent level of administration support to the smooth running of Harrow Child Health Services with particular responsibilities to Paediatric Therapies(Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy)
He / She will co-ordinate the administrative functions of the Paediatric Therapy pathways on a day to day basis working closely with Therapy leads and broader clinical team to ensure effective administrative support.
The post holder will be the line manager of named administrative staff. This includes managerial supervision, delegation of tasks and responsibility for appraisal, as well as first line management of disciplinary or grievance issues.
This role will include the day to day management of Education Health and Care Plan database and communications to and from the Local Authority.
The post holder will be expected to assist in the organisation of the workload in therapy pathways and support audit and preparation of reports.
The post holder is responsible for managing their own workload with a flexible and adaptable approach to the job role in order to meet the changing service needs.
The post holder will have excellent interpersonal skills and have ability to communicate effectively and manage staff. In addition, the post holder must possess good IT skills and be able to analyse and interpret data.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Administrator to join Harrow Children’s Child Health Services administration team. We seek a highly motivated and committed administrator, who has excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills and a willingness to learn.
This is a permanent position within the service for 30 hours per week , Monday- Friday with some flexibility on work days/hours.
Harrow Child Health Services provide medical and therapy support to children and young people 0-19 years in the London borough of Harrow. The successful applicant will be joining a friendly, forward thinking team and will need to demonstrate resilience, identify areas for improvement, work to deadlines and use their initiative to manage conflicting priorities. There is a well established support , supervision and appraisal system in place which enables the successful candidate to enhance their personal development plan.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Taking on lead responsibility for the administration and delegation of tasks as appropriate for the following pathways: Paediatric Therapy Administration
This will include being the paediatric therapy staff contact point, organising EHCP requests for therapist in addition to day to day work supporting the Therapists.
• Providing input into the development and maintenance of Standard Operating procedures for the services for which the post holder holds the primary responsibility.
• To line manage named administrative staff as required, ensuring that staff provide the best possible level of support to clinicians. This includes managerial supervision, delegation of tasks and responsibility for appraisal, as well as first line management of disciplinary or grievance issues.
• Coordination of multidisciplinary clinics and meetings including maintenance of spreadsheets, team diaries, appointments, cancellations and room bookings as appropriate
• To be aware of the patients waiting times for allocated services by ensuring that patients are re-booked and seen both within waiting time targets and as necessary for clinical urgency, and to escalate to the Team Leader or Service Manager if this is not possible.
• Processing and analysing urgent and non-urgent data requests from clinicians and senior managers
• Processing multidisciplinary referrals through management of shared inboxes and on SystmOne, including preparation of appropriate paperwork for meetings /panels such as the Single Point of Referral Panel.
• Processing other urgent or complex referrals, including for the Child Protection medicals pathway as necessary.
• Supporting with routine, urgent or complex information-gathering for areas of the service where this is required such as SPOR or EHCP and utilising supervisory support from a clinician as appropriate
• Processing urgent and / or complex documents on Dictate IT or other similar dictation software
• Coordinating multidisciplinary meetings.
• Encouraging take up of clinical offers from services – for example making phone calls to families to describe and encourage attendance at workshops and parent programmes
• Processing urgent and / or complex documents on Dictate IT or other similar
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JD&PS Band 4 Senior administrator – Paediatric therapies October 2022
dictation software
• Performing complex SystmOne tasks – for example the management of waiting lists, and the creation of new SystmOne templates and editable letters
• Responsibility for ensuring that data on pathways is up to date and has been completed correctly.
• The post holder will meet regularly if required with the Clinicians to collate and validate the status of patient pathway data.
• The post holder must ensure that all patient identifiable information is stored securely on the network drive.
• The post holder will have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Communicate professionally and effectively with a variety of people at all levels both internally and externally
• Collating and analysing data from Friends and Family Test and other patient surveys
• Incident reporting and feedback including support for inputting Datix’s
• To act as a Nominated Officer of Fire (NOF) within the building.
• To contribute to covering the duties of the admin manager in their absence as required.
• To cover the duties of other administration staff and to perform less complex tasks across teams as required
• To demonstrate a commitment towards their own personal development
• To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained and confidentiality with regard to the business of the services at all times
• The post-holder will have to receive, provide and process a wide variety of sensitive, contentious and highly confidential information, which should be processed professionally in line with the nature of the information in question.
• To undertake any other duties commensurate with grade and status.
This advert closes on Friday 26 Apr 2024
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