Clinical Support Team Administrator - Ipswich

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

JOB OVERVIEW

Do you appreciate the opportunity of joining a happy and positive team who are seeking someone similar to fit into their ‘family’? Are you an experienced administrator who would like a promotion opportunity or do you have the skills and experience already and want an exciting new challenge in a team that is striving for excellence?
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the dynamic and creative Suffolk Learning Disability & Autism (LD & A) Specialist Service . Admin is a most valued part of the service and integral to a wider group of warm and welcoming ‘family’ of staff and managers who have been developing the service over the past 2 years and were pleased to recently receive a rating of GOOD by the CQC. The service covers the whole of Suffolk with 3 main community bases in Ipswich, Stowmarket and Bury St Edmunds.

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

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The role is to provide full administrative support to the Learning Disability Liaison Team and the Team Leader at the LD West Team Ipswich Office including:

• processing incoming referrals,
• typing correspondence and reports,
• preparing agendas and taking minutes at team meetings,
• maintaining and uploading up to date information to the Trust database (full training will be given)

• dealing with telephone queries etc.

  Whilst the work can be challenging, this is an excellent opportunity for the ideal candidate to gain experience within the NHS

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

You should have good communication, inter-personal skills and full commitment to the care and wellbeing of patients. This post requires a confident, level-headed individual who can support a busy service in responding to changing priorities and delivering accurate work within tight deadlines.
As well as having a good standard of education, you should have relevant and recent administration experience as well as good typing skills. You must possess excellent time management skills, a positive approach and be able to remain calm under pressure. The ability to work on your own initiative and prioritise your own work is required, as is the capacity to be flexible and be able to travel to other sites if required.

Benefits included with this role are:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more