Senior Administrator | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,944 - £34,937 pa inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | Kensington and Chelsea, W10 6DZ |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7223469/333-J-KC-0865 |
Summary
The post holder will join the large and busy CLW talking therapies admin team. The CLW talking therapies admin team is the first point of contact for CLW service users and visitors, and provides administrative support to enable the smooth functioning of the service. The role is site based and the post holder will be responsible for providing administrative support for the service. You will provide specialised administrative and clerical support to assist Band 3 administrative staff in their duties. You will also be responsible for assisting the service support manager to ensure that sites are well maintained with systems in place to ensure their smooth running (including procurement, health and safety checks etc.). You will assist the Operational Service Support Manager in their role as required.
1. To assist the service support manager to ensure sites run smoothly – that equipment is well maintained, health and safety requirements met, supplies ordered when required, goods received, issues reported in a timely manner and escalated when required.
2. To manage the team email account, including responding to enquiries by email, ensuring incoming emails are passed to the appropriate recipient in a timely manner, alerting managers to any urgent issues and maintaining a tidy and organised inbox.
3. To ensure letters are printed and sent on a daily basis and post received is passed on to the relevant person in a timely manner.
4. To ensure SARS (requests for access to medical records) are responded to in a timely manner and Trust protocols followed.
5. To assist the Admin Lead and Service Support Manager in ensuring that data quality is maintained in the service and accurate reports produced to help improve the quality of the service.
6. To assist the Admin Lead and Service Support Manager to ensure all systems supporting the service are in place and function well (including room booking systems, routine audits, health and safety checks etc.)
7. To manage interpreter bookings for the service.
8. Communicate effectively by competent use of email, telephone, written and face-face communication
The post is based in Kensington and Chelsea and the Queens Park and Paddington area of Westminster. The main base for the post is at St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing near Ladbroke Grove, with a secondary base in Chelsea at Gertrude Street. The postholder will be required to work across both sites and in other parts of the catchment area and/ or wider service, as necessary. The postholder will also be expected to participate in extended hours early and late clinics offered by the service from 8 am to 8 pm. This role is site based.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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.
1. To ensure that priority patients are offered appointments in a timely manner.
2. To provide specialist admin support to assist band 3 staff with any complexities and difficulties in their work.
3. The supervise band 3 administrative staff if required for your career development needs.
4. To provide reception cover on site and assist with any other admin tasks as required or requested by Management.
5. To answer the telephone in a friendly and efficient manner and manage enquiries appropriately.
6. To register all referrals to the service in a timely manner.
7. The post holder will be required to use IAPTUS and SystemOne for data entry case note tracking, patient enquiries, and patient appointments for the services.
8. The post holder may be required to work in other areas of the department at short notice to cover unplanned sickness or annual leave on other departments.
9. The post holder will exercise judgement and tact when dealing with queries from staff, patients, carers and external contacts and when dealing with enquiries in relation to making appointments with the patient.
10. Contribute to a culture of open and honest communication.
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025
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