Single Point of Access Administrator | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	11 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£29,179 pa inc
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	10 September 2025
Location:	London, SE2 0AS
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7393950/277-7393950-CPH

Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Administrator to work within our administration team in the Greenwich Single Point of Access Team.

Our role in the Greenwich Single Point of Access is to provide and co-ordinate a liaison service, receiving and passing referrals and messages from hospitals, GP’s, patients, carers, and families to Community Nursing staff. This service is an intricate part of and a key link in the Community Nursing chain.

You will be welcomed into the team and expected to work as a effective collaborative unit to provide excellent patient care.

If you are ambitious and strive for professional excellence then this is an excellent opportunity to be part of our service. Our plans are to support further improvement in our standard of patient care and smooth and efficient running of our services at the point of delivery of patient care.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who may have previously worked within a busy environment. You will need to demonstrate IT literacy, to include computerised booking software as well as document uploads.

It will be important that you have good attention to detail to provide a high quality data entry system. The successful applicant will also work with the clinicians and support the administrative lead in maintaining records and data for reports for the team. Good communication and telephone experience is essential, as is computer literacy as the majority of our referral pathways are via E-referrals. You will need good phone communication skills and liaise on a regular basis with patients, clinicians and managers.

You will be working closely with our partners who have an excellent team work ethos and be within a very supportive and friendly environment.

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

· To provide an efficient and effective liaison service for relaying and processing referrals and messages on a daily basis to the Community Nursing services and Podiatrists, Health Services from Hospitals, GP’s, patients, relatives and other outside agencies.

To accurately record referrals, messages and queries received by telephone/fax/email on to RiO

To prioritise and handle as appropriate messages.

To ensure the relaying of messages to the most appropriate team/ward/manager

Non-urgent referrals/messages will be sent via RiO

Urgent referrals/messages will be passed immediately by phone to the StepUp ward or Nursing Team mobile

To track and record all referral outcomes

To keep GP’s informed of the progress of their referrals throughout the process

To support Health Care Professionals, patients, their families and carers to resolve problems and concerns and to respond in a sympathetic manner to requests for assistance

To manage difficult clients, including those that may be distressed

Maintain a comprehensive working knowledge of District Nursing and other Community Services, understanding critical calls to enable urgent messages to be passed promptly

On a weekly basis liaise with all Community Nursing staff to determine the ‘on-call’ rota for weekends and Bank Holidays. Inform Queen Mary’s Hospital and other agencies of who will be available ‘on-call’ for these periods

Provision of on-the-job training to new and bank staff

To be the main point of contact for GP’s and other Health Care Professionals redirecting to other related services as necessary

To prepare and maintain excel spreadsheets and create word documents

To process incoming mail for the team in a timely manner. To deal with routine correspondence by replying or redirecting as appropriate

To create referrals for service users and/or to enter messages or updates onto patient notes directly into clinical systems (Rio)


This advert closes on Monday 18 Aug 2025

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