Job responsibilities JOB PURPOSE This position is responsible for providing senior administrative support at our site in Crawley, supporting the Office Manager to lead the administrative function and provide an outstanding service to patients and staff. The post holder works independently, prioritising and organising their own workload, taking into consideration the competing demands of the team and ensuring that administrative work is conducted within required timescales. This role supervises and allocates where necessary the workload of administrative staff whilst taking account of workloads and administrative priorities. The Senior Clinical Administrator manages the provision of excellent customer service to stakeholders, including patients, referrers and external health care professionals and is overall responsible for managing effective and efficient administrative support services. The role will drive and help to continually embed Pioneers values; putting Patients First; effective Communication; invest in Staff Development; strive for Excellence; and advance practice through Research. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES 1.To be conversant and compliant with all statutory and non-statutory policies, guidelines and procedures. 2.To be the local point of contact for issues and queries from all stakeholders, the Clinical Administration Team, patients and Senior Management. 3.To be fully conversant with all aspects of the Clinical Administrators daily tasks, including but not limited to management of appointments and referrals, telephone and patient enquiries and reception duties. 4.To provide day to day support and coordination of Clinical Administration staff and train on departmental procedures, policies and systems. 5.To support clinical staff collaboratively with administration tasks. 6.To assist senior staff with surveys and audits as appropriate. 7.To work with Senior Management in the communication of company objectives; support the Clinical Administration Team in achieving objectives and targets. 8.To manage standard operating procedures in association with other sites to ensure uniformity. 9.To demonstrate administrative duties to new starters and less experienced staff. 10.To be responsible for office equipment, ordering and maintaining office supplies, stationary, patient leaflets, in conjunction with associated Managers. 11.To manage the meet and greet and general service provision to all patients, providing excellent customer service, provision of questionnaires and general information. 12.To support the administration of local staff meetings in the absence of the Office Manager. 13.To deputise for the Office Manager in their absence. 14.Undertake additional duties / specific projects that may be required within the scope of this position. GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES 15.To be familiar with and adhere to the policies and procedures of Pioneer WHLC. 16.To achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales. 17.To participate fully in the performance and development review (appraisal) process and undertake Continuing Professional Development as required. 18.To participate in surveys and audits as necessary in order to enable the Company to meet its statutory requirements. 19.To demonstrate excellent communication skills for dealing with a wide variety of patient queries and needs 20.Regularly attend training and meetings. 21.To oversee the office environment ensuring its tidiness and safety. 22.To be aware of the Companys emergency planning processes and follow such processes as necessary, in the event of an unexpected incident. 23.This job description is not exhaustive. Staff may be required to undertake any other duties at the request of the line manager, which are commensurate with the band, including project work, internal job rotation and absence cover. INFORMATION GOVERNANCE 24.Information Governance is a framework for handling personal information in a confidential and secure manner to appropriate ethical and quality standards in a modern health service. All data MUST be held securely and confidentially; obtained fairly and lawfully; recorded accurately and reliably; used effectively and ethically, and shared and disclosed appropriately and lawfully. 25.All staff must complete annual basic Information Governance training appropriate to their role through the national online NHS IG Training Tool or other Connecting for Health approved materials. EQUALITY & DIVERSITY 26.Carry out duties and responsibilities in line with the Pioneer Equal Opportunity policy. 27.Act in ways that acknowledge and recognise peoples expressed beliefs, preferences and choices, respecting diversity and valuing people as individuals in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures. SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN/ADULTS 28.All Pioneer WHLC staff have a responsibility to safeguard children and adults. All staff must be familiar with, and adhere to, Pioneer child and adult protection procedures and guidelines, in conjunction with the Local Safeguarding childrens board (LSCB) and Adults safeguarding board (ASB) policies and procedures. 29.It is the responsibility of the post holder to be familiar with their role and responsibility around safeguarding children and adults and to ensure that they have completed training at a level commensurate to their role. OTHER 30.These guidelines are provided to assist in the performance of the contract but are not a condition of the contract. The job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the post holder. 31.In accordance with the Pioneer responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to undertake work and alternative duties as reasonably directed at variable locations. 32.Pioneer is a smoke free organisation and as such does not permit staff or patients to smoke in any Pioneer building or associated location. This post has been identified as involving access to vulnerable adults and or children and in line with Pioneer policy, successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Disclosure Check.