Team Administrator

Responsible for booking future appointments where necessary and highlighting any problems e.g.passing on information regarding changes to appointments and DNAs and any specific questions raised by patients etc. Responsible for ordering stationery, medical supplies for the team and liaising with the relevant suppliers. Post-holder will be required to interact with different stakeholders, liaise with patients daily, schedule appointments and organise changes to appointments. As the first point of contact to the team, post-holder must have experience and ability to relate to patients in a calm manner when they contact the team via telephone and recognise when to escalate queries for appropriate response. Daily use of computer for inputting data and typing of documents. Duties will require period of concentration in terms of active listening and identifying and solving problems on regular basis. Frequent interruptions during work such as, phone calls and responding to queries from colleagues. This is at times an extremely challenging and busy team where the post-holder will be required to be both flexible and adaptable and able to work under pressure occasional. Some of the work that the post-holder may have to deal with could be of a private and confidential nature and therefore discretion is an essential skill that is required.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Education/Qualifications

Essential: - Educated to basic GCSE level or equivalent, including maths and English. NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential: - 3 Years experience of working within a secretarial job role Worked in health &/or local authority service or in busy similar environment

Knowledge

Essential: - 3 Years knowledge of working in health services or similar