Senior Team Administrator

The job role involves providing comprehensive, professional, and effective administrative support to the Adult Community Mental Health Service. You will be responsible forco-ordinating CPA's with the team, providing admin support for safeguarding meetings, supporting with the physical health clinic appointment booking,answering the telephone, taking messages, passing relevant queries to the duty worker, sending out agendas, taking meeting minutes and other general administrative duties.

This is a busy and varied role so good interpersonal skills are required. As some of the work will involve speaking to service users on the telephone, you must display a considerable degree of tact, possess mature judgement and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner.

The right person will be able to work with a degree of autonomy and apply a high degree of confidentiality to all of their work.

To be highly skilled and experienced in the full range of administrationwork practices, software programmes, and specialised functionalterms.

To be proficient in the use of MS Office and Electronic Patient Records

Co-ordinating Care Plan Approach (CPA) Meetings with clinicians before their breach date.

Providing admin support for safeguarding meetings, including ensuring necessary documentation is completed in line with Trust targets.

Provide admin support to the Physical Health Clinic, including booking appointments, reviewing breach dates and liaising with clinicians.

Provide reception cover during absences

Responsibilityforensuringallcorrespondenceisaccuratelyandappropriately presented.

To be proficient in using the electronic patient record for administrative purposes.

To use knowledge, and experience to assist other members of the admin team when requested to undertake additional admin tasks such as scanning, photocopying, answering the telephone etc.

To update skills as necessary and attend mandatory training

To work unsupervised, on a daily basis, prioritising own workload, using initiative as to what is routine and what is urgent.

To use agreed guidelines/procedures and developed knowledge/skills/qualifications when working autonomously and managing own work.

For a more comprehensive Job and Person Specification please read attached before applying

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

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