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Bank Administrator | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 13 May 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £26,336 - £28,649 pa inc
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 12 June 2024
Location: Kent, ME12 4AX
Company: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6306502/277-BKADMIN-KENT-B

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Summary

BANK ADMINISTRATOR – KENT PRISONS
We are looking for regular bank staff to join our Kent Prison admin teams to work within our six prisons located on the Isle of Sheppey and West Kent. We are looking for a motivated individual who can pick up bank shifts regularly when our admin teams are short staffed. This person will provide an integrated comprehensive secretarial and administrative support service to the integrated health care services within the Kent Prisons.

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
















• Maintain daily running of the admin office working alongside other administrators. Liaison and telephone contact with all statutory and non-statutory agencies, healthcare practitioners, GPs, consultants and solicitors etc., within prisons, hospitals and community health settings as required.
• Act as first point of contact for incoming calls, taking accurate, detailed messages as necessary ensuring these are passed on to the appropriate personnel.

Providing and receiving complex and sensitive information.

Proactively communicating with colleagues on workload issues
• Maintain sound working relationships and communication with all colleagues within Oxleas.
• Undertaking copy/audio typing and word processing support to the team for the provision of required client related reports, letters, discharge summaries etc, including legal documentation, whilst prioritising work-load and meeting deadlines.


• Dealing with incoming correspondence on a daily basis, distributing and taking appropriate action as necessary and ensuring urgent items are brought to the attention of a member of the team.
• Minute meetings e.g. case conferences/professional meetings and team meetings as required, distributing as appropriate and taking administrative follow-up acting on own initiative.



Undertaking any other duties commensurate with the level of the post as required, ensuring efficient and effective running of the department/section.



Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Overview of the PostTo provide an integrated comprehensive secretarial and administrative support service to the integrated health care services.


Key Task and Responsibilities
• Undertaking copy/audio typing and word processing support to the team for the provision of required client related reports, letters, discharge summaries etc, including legal documentation, whilst prioritising work-load and meeting deadlines.


• Dealing with incoming correspondence on a daily basis, distributing and taking appropriate action as necessary and ensuring urgent items are brought to the attention of a member of the team.


• Preparing and presenting any statistical returns as necessary.


• Undertake any administrative procedures required to support the team, e.g. arrange medical staff & practitioner rota’s organise meetings.


• Implementing and maintaining effective client filing systems, ensuring client records are safe, confidential, up to date and accessible.


• Attending and participating in meetings.


• Minute meetings e.g. case conferences/professional meetings and team meetings as required, distributing as appropriate and taking administrative follow-up acting on own initiative.


• Undertaking administrative duties, e.g. diary management, photocopying, faxing, monitoring stationery/clinical items and ordering as necessary.


• Using electronic clinical record system (SystmOne), email, intranet, Internet and Microsoft packages as required.



PLEASE SEE JD&PS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION


This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024

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