Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Services Administrator to join our North Somerset CAMHS/LD admin team.
Applicants should be effective communicators, as the role will involve referrals, liaising with nurses, medics, GPs, service users, their families, and advocates. You should have excellent administration and organisational skills, possess a good working knowledge of all Microsoft Office systems, and be willing to undertake training in order to use other software packages, including our electronic patient record system, IAPTUS.
You will be working as part of a busy administrative team within the Service and will need to be able to prioritise and organise your own workload, as well as sharing admin work streams, to ensure effective and efficient support to the clinical teams. The role is varied, and requires the successful candidates to be able to adapt to constant changes in workload, to meet demand and deadlines.
We are able to offer you training opportunities.
If you are someone who is able to work well under pressure, while remaining calm in challenging situations, who has a positive and friendly nature, and an interest in working for mental health services, this could be the job opportunity for you.
Main duties of the job
As one of the administrators in a busy team, you will need to have excellent communication skills and a wide range of administrative skills.
The role will involve routine and non-routine tasks, including:
1. Telephone call handling
2. Communication with a wide range of people, including services users, carers, GPs and other clinical staff
3. Typing patient related correspondence/emails
4. Inputting accurate and up to date patient data on electronic patient system
5. Arranging, attending and taking minutes of meetings
6. Creating and sending client letters on behalf of medics
There are a wide range of electronic systems used with AWP so an aptitude for processes would be an advantage.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide comprehensive administration and secretarial support to multidisciplinary teams or departments. This will include being the first point of contact for that team or department and could involve duties such as meeting and greeting visitors, receiving initial enquiries and directing telephone calls. There will also be an expectation to cover reception which is currently at Drove Road Children's Centre and The Barn, Clevedon.
There will be an expectation for the post holder to be highly motivated, flexible and multi-skilled with excellent organisational skills. They will possess excellent working knowledge of all Microsoft Office systems including Word and Excel.
The post holder will be able to work to high standards and will be required to take personal details from people and upload onto the electronic patient record system (IAPTUS). The post holder will need to meet deadlines, collate data and maintain standards relating to administrative processes. They will need to be able to work within a team effectively and share work streams where appropriate.
There may be a requirement to provide supervision to support administrators or apprentice posts.
The post holder will be key in maintaining diaries and arranging meetings, taking formal minutes and keeping appropriate records on the most up to date templates. Their work is managed rather than supervised and they are accountable for their own actions - manager is available for reference but generally, they will manage their own workload.
Person specification
One year administration experience (preferably within an NHS setting)
Essential criteria
* Admin experience within Healthcare/Social care setting
Desirable criteria
* Communication skills (verbal and written)
IT Skills
Essential criteria
* Use of Microsoft packages
Desirable criteria
* IT qualifications
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities; we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours; we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
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Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system 'TRAC'. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
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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.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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