Team Administrator | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,176 - £30,225 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2025 |
| Location: | Greenwich, SE18 3RG |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7158611/277-7158611-CMH |
Summary
A full-time vacancy has arisen within the Greenwich Older Adults Community Mental Health Team and we are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work closely with a multi professional mental health team. The successful candidate will be required to provide a comprehensive range of secretarial and administrative services, being able to work accurately and effectively using your own initiative or as part of a team.
To provide integrated and comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Consultant Psychiatrists, Community Mental Health Team & Greenwich Memory Service -working across both services.
A full-time vacancy has arisen within the Greenwich Older Adults Community Mental Health Team and we are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work closely with a multi professional mental health team. The successful candidate will be required to provide a comprehensive range of secretarial and administrative services, being able to work accurately and effectively using your own initiative or as part of a team.
To provide integrated and comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Consultant Psychiatrists, Community Mental Health Team & Greenwich Memory Service - working across both services.
We are looking to employ an individual that has the below listed knowledge and skills in the following areas:
• Knowledge and use of Rio
• Intermediate use of Microsoft Office Packages including Excel
• Operating all other office equipment
• 60 wpm typing speed
• Audio Typing
• Accurate minute taking
• Able to produce reports of a high standard
• Accurate data input
• Communicating effectively both in writing and verbally
• Understanding Equal Opportunities
• Understanding Patient Confidentiality
• Implement efficient administration & filing systems
• Planning/organising meetings
• Willingness to undertake specific training for personal development and service organisational development
• Good interpersonal skills/relationship building
• Working in an assertive manner/workload planning
• Working effectively as part of a team
• Good, appropriate and sensitive telephone manner
• Time and Diary Management
• Knowledge of Health and Safety
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
• Undertaking word processing for the provision of required reports, letters, summaries, etc. within the set standards
• Using RIO (electronic system) to record and retrieve information on both service users and caseload holders
• Processing referrals via email/NHS E-referrals
• Booking appointments and sending out letters via hybrid mail
• Implement and maintain effective filing systems, ensuring that service user records are kept safe, confidential, up to date and accessible
• Respond to incoming calls and deal with enquiries in accordance with management procedures. Record all messages accurately ensuring appropriate action is taken and messages passed to the relevant discipline/clinician.
• Use initiative in finding appropriate clinician for advice if required staff member is absent
• Implementing and maintaining effective communication systems with the team, locality, acute in-patient staff, GPs and service users
• Distribute/disseminate post as necessary
• Processing of Data Protection enquiries, liaising with both service users and clinicians to ensure that all necessary information is provided in an efficient and timely manner.
• Undertake administrative duties – photocopying, scanning etc.
• Provide assistance to clinicians in troubleshooting computer issues.
• Booking of interpreter services to attend the locality or on the telephone
• Minute taking – to take detailed notes for MDT meetings
• Scanning incoming correspondence and reports
• Messages left overnight on answer phone are retrieved and action appropriately
• Dealing with Incoming calls via telephone/emails accordingly
• Dealing with Incoming post and distributed in a timely manner
• Keep movement chart on all staff updated throughout the day
This advert closes on Tuesday 6 May 2025
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