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Administration Assistant/Receptionist | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 31 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 November 2025 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO3 3HJ |
| Company: | Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7575455/364-A-9486 |
Summary
We are looking for an experienced, organised and adaptable person to work in the admin team for the North East Essex IAPT service. We are a primary mental health service offering talking therapy for people presenting with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues. The job is based at Hospital Road in Colchester
As the admin team for Therapy for You, we are responsible for taking and processing referrals to our service. As the first port of call for people needing help, we are proud to give great service to people and make them feel reassured. A lot of our work is based on the phone, so we need someone who can give great first impressions. We are a small, supportive and welcoming team supporting a large team of therapists.
Some of the main responsibilities and duties include but are not limited to: Taking self-referrals on the phone, processing professional referrals, booking assessments and treatments and dealing with queries – both by phone and by email.
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
Benefits
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
• Answering incoming calls – to answer queries, take self-referrals.
• Monitoring the contact centre inbox including passing on queries, putting referrals onto system, calling people to take their referrals following their enquiries to the service, booking telephone assessments.
• Monitoring the sickness inbox in order to process therapist cancellations.
• Helping the waiting list team with patient allocations, booking first treatment appointments, updating the waiting list accordingly.
• Booking interpreters for telephone assessments that require them – and for treatment sessions when requested by therapists.
• Dealing with the batch printing.
• Take minutes at meetings when required – most notably the monthly service meeting.
• Booking wellbeing calls.
• Processing Access to Records requests.
• Printing and posting therapist materials as and when requested by clinicians.
• Preparing and distributing contact lists – for internal staff and for outside agencies and GPs.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Nov 2025