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Job overview

Volunteer Administration Assistant

Volunteers will primarily work to support with a new pilot to improve the collection of sensitive Equality data as part of Oxleas pledge to reduce health inequalities. Volunteer staff will be supported to develop their existing skillset, and this may include both data entry and supporting service users to complete questionnaires.

Main duties of the job

Common tasks can include:

·        Learning key administrative skills

·        Data entry

·        Using the patient record system (RiO)

·        Entry of sensitive patient data

·        Photocopying and scanning

·        Supporting patients to complete questionnaires

·        Using common software packages such as word and excel

Working for our organisation

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
• We Listen
• We Care