Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- Bank Band 3
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 354-FH-20465
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Chichester Centre
- Town
- Chichester
- Salary
- £12.45 per hour
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- Today at 08:00
Employer heading
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Bank Ward Administrator
Bank Band 3
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Bank
We are looking for two motivated and enthusiastic individuals, who enjoys challenges, to join our team at the Chichester Centre, a low secure mental health Mental Health unit comprising of three wards, two male and one female, in Chichester, West Sussex.
You will be working as an administrator for Forensic Healthcare service where you will use your skills to support highly-skilled and dedicated clinical staff from a multitude of backgrounds including; doctors, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and social workers, to help ensure that we continue to provide excellent patient-focused care.
As well as the clinical team you will be dealing with patients, carers and visitors to the unit, as well as telephone calls and enquiries from the general public, patients and relatives.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic person who has:
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- Planning and organisational skills;
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as works well in a team
- Has good PC skills: - experience of Microsoft Office, including but not exclusively Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel
- Has excellent written and verbal communication skills and a pleasant telephone manner
- Helpful and flexible attitude is essential
- Has good interpersonal skills and is able to work in a confidential and sensitive manner.
You will be provided with training and development opportunities and regular supervision.
There are two roles for 18.75 hours across 3 days which must include either Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, or Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday (these dates may be subject to change and as much notice as possible will be given)
Working for our organisation
If you would like to join our team, then we would very much like to hear from you.
For further details contact are below. You also may like to arrange an informal visit to The Chichester Centre:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Secretarial duties for the Ward:
To maintain records of sickness/absence/leave/training for the team.
Organise and facilitate relevant meetings, preparing the agenda and taking minutes of the meeting.
To book bank staff via the Nurse Bank as instructed by the Ward Manager or Deputy.
To input weekly figures of bank staff onto spreadsheets and distribute to appropriate managers.
To produce word processed letters and reports to a high standard of presentation and accuracy using appropriate Trust templates, in line with Trust guidelines, from audio and hand written notes. Some letters and reports may contain very distressing content.
See Job Description for further details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 or equivalent qualifications
- Good standard of secondary education; GCSE at Grade C or above or equivalent
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of a range of administrative procedures
- Experience of producing documents to a high standard of presentation with good accuracy
- Experience of developing, managing and maintaining office information systems
- Experience of working as part of a team
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Robertson
- Job title
- Admin Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01243 79 1924
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