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Job summary

Main area
Administrative
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
  • Other
37.5 hours per week (The post will be mostly office based but there may be opportunity to work remotely occasionally based on service demand)
Job ref
270-TF632-MH
Employer
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Campbell House
Town
Northampton
Salary
£26,530 - £29,114 pa, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/12/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Recovery College Team Administrator

Band 4

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Administrator to be a core member of Recovery College NHFT which delivers educational courses and workshops across the county. All courses are recovery based and focus on different aspects of wellbeing, mental and neurodevelopmental health. They aim to help individuals who have experienced mental ill health and neurodevelopmental challenges to live the life they want to lead. 

The overall aim of this role is to ensure the smooth running of the college and the courses that we deliver by providing excellent administrative support. It is a fundamental and highly valued role within the team and the professional face of the Recovery College both internally and externally,

We are looking for someone who is proactive and solutions focused, very organised and who has great interpersonal skills.

The role is based at Campbell House, Northampton, but you will need to be able to drive and occasionally transport training equipment to venues across Northamptonshire.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide full administrative, secretarial, and clerical support, including compiling written reports and day to day management of Recovery College phone, email inbox, Recovery College calendar, social media accounts and general office duties.
  • Organise training venues and resources, including uploading course booking information to Eventbrite and in-house systems.
  • Support the Recovery College trainers to organise course materials and set up training rooms at venues across the county as and when required.
  • To meet and greet visitors, answer queries in person, via phone and email, and direct them to appropriate areas in line with the ethos of Recovery College NHFT and relay messages accurately and promptly.
  • Prepare statistics, reports and presentations as requested by team members.
  • To participate in management of student course evaluations, feedback and quality assurance information when required.
  • Designing newsletters, posters, Recovery College adverts and promotional emails to existing and potential students.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document. 

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • NVQ level 4 or 5, foundation degree or diploma in higher education or A levels or NVQ in Business Administration with evidence of breadth and level of knowledge of administration and substantial administrative, customer service and other relevant experience of administrative roles and functions.
  • Substantial previous administrative experience
  • Excellent Microsoft Office skills, specifically Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Teams.
  • Excellent written and spoken English language skills
  • Confidence in learning and using non MS Office software and systems
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of working in an educational setting
  • Experience of working within the mental health setting
  • A good level of creativity to be able to design communications such as flyers, presentations and newsletters

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work in a fast paced environment with competing priorities and regular deadlines
  • Able to use own initiative to organise their own workload, support others in the team and adjust priorities when necessary

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyWorkplace Wellbeing Charter LogoDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into health

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Matthew Carter
Job title
Operational Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07713708259
Additional information

Alternatively you can contact [email protected] / 03000 270 470.

You can find more information on Recovery College NHFT here: https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/recovery-college/

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