Team Lead Administrator | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,860 - £31,671 per annum (inc. of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 January 2026 |
| Location: | Reading, RG6 6BZ |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7691381/371-CFS616-A |
Summary
Band 4 – Team Lead Administrator - CAMHS Anxiety Disorders Treatment Team
The post holder will support effective administration processes within the CAMHS Anxiety Disorders Treatment Team (ADTT)
The postholder is to act on their own initiative on a daily basis to ensure the effective running of the service, prioritising their own workload as required.
The postholder is expected to liaise effectively and professionally with all levels of staff, external organisations and the public, dealing with confidential information in an appropriate manner.
Service Delivery
• To act as the supervisor for the ADTT administration team.
• To take a key role within the team to support the ADTT Clinical Operational Team Leads, and to provide administrative support to the Consultants and clinicians.
• Provide comprehensive, high-quality leadership in all administrative activity in consultation with other colleagues.
• To assist in rostering clinical and administration staff.
• The post holder will be expected to liaise and communicate effectively with all levels of staff within the service, the wider Trust, key partner agencies and with service users and carers.
• The post holder will work to support the effective development and operation of the CAMHS ADT Team.
• To take a key role within the team to support the ADTT Clinical Operational Team Lead, and to provide administrative support to the Consultants and clinicians.
• Inform and assist the team to implement Service policy in relation to patient experience identifying issues for continuous improvement and work with the Team Lead and
• Clinicians to implement these, ensuring a consistent approach is maintained across the Service.
• To highlight data capture inconsistencies and to take necessary action for the improvement of data quality working with the team lead.
Clinical activities
• The post holder will support the production of clinical records and letter writing as directed by the Team Lead.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role:
• Line management experience
• To have all-round knowledge of administration and have good IT skills to enter data and to navigate around various systems-Word/Excel/Outlook/ Microsoft Teams.
• Experience of working in an office with customer care functions and duties.
• Ability to use a practical problem-solving approach in everyday situations.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Jennie Pohlman 07929767279 or email: Jennie.pohlman@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help. Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Sunday 11 Jan 2026
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