Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting vacancy has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Administrator to support urgent care response and Halton intermediate care and frailty service (HICAF). You should be highly committed, organised and be able to work to a high standard. The ability to prioritise, work to deadlines and achieve targets is also essential and a willingness to support change and improvement within the service is expected. The Intermediate Care and Frailty Service is committed to delivering an excellent service to all patients both in the Community and Care Settings. This is a Health and Social Care multi-disciplinary/multi-organisational service.
Experience of working within a healthcare/social care environment is desirable but not essential; however, it is essential that the applicant should demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with clients, carers and other professionals. It is essential that the applicant can travel independently across the Trust and be able to work flexibly over 7 days on Rota.
Main duties of the job
Job Purpose:
To provide clerical support to allow for the effective operational management of the Halton Intermediate Care and Frailty Service, by undertaking routine office duties, administrative and clerical duties and dealing with routine enquiries and queries.
Please see the Job Description & Person Specification attached as a separate document for a full overview of the role and duties for this vacancy.
Job responsibilities
1. To provide personal administration and secretarial support for the Intermediate Care and Frailty Service to ensure the smooth and efficient running of services.
2. To maintain a high professional standard in terms of the performance of duties in terms of general conduct, including maintaining confidentiality.
3. To work flexibly across organisational boundaries as required and to present at all times a positive image of the Services.
4. To prioritise workload to meet agreed timescales.
5. To take and transcribe minutes of approved Service/Team meetings ensuring they accurately reflect the discussions at the meetings.
6. To collate data for Commissioners and Clinical audit and generate reports using appropriate office applications mainly EMIS.
7. To maintain electronic diaries and arrange appointments and to deal with any correspondence relating to this and log all messages received.
8. Typing of clinical letters/medical reports and other correspondence required by the Services.
9. To be responsible for sourcing, ordering and auditing of resources.
10. To be responsible for the requesting of medical documentation from other hospitals/units as and when required.
11. Work across multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational Health and Social Care Services.
12. Load referrals and input data on Social Care Database.
13. To liaise and maintain excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, at all levels within the team.
14. To organise meetings as directed. These may require contact with multi-agencies requiring the co-ordination of mutually convenient times.
15. To assess and action information received, using own initiative and to refer on to appropriate individual as necessary.
16. To be first point of contact for clients and offer a professional solution to client queries.
17. To be able to communicate effectively and professionally both on the telephone and face to face with clients, carers and other professionals.
18. To offer administrative support to other services as required.
19. To participate in protected learning time and attend Service/Team and administrative staff meetings as required.
20. To participate in the individual performance review system.
21. To update administrative/computer skills identified by utilising appropriate learning opportunities.
22. To participate in all statutory and mandatory training in relation to the post. Travel is essential for the post; therefore, candidates will need to demonstrate their ability to travel and hold a full UK driving license.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good standard of general education in numeracy and literacy.
* RSA 11 or equivalent.
* NVQ 2 Business and Administration.
Sponsorship
* Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share-codes will be checked if applicable).
Skills & Attributes
* To demonstrate effective communication skills both verbal and written.
* Ability to work on own initiative.
* Ability to prioritise workload and deadlines.
* To have a good understanding of computer programmes and be able to demonstrate effective IT skills.
* Demonstrate a willingness to undertake additional training to increase skills and knowledge.
Experience
* Experience of undertaking a full range of administrative, clerical and reception duties.
* Experience of working within a team.
* Experience of using Microsoft packages.
* Previous experience of ordering stock and non-stock items through requisition and procurement.
Job Specific Requirements
* Able to work across the Bridgewater footprint.
* The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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