Inpatient Administrator

**Inpatient Administrator**:
**Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Inpatient Administrator
- **Grade**
- Band 4
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-428**Site**
- Longreach House
- **Town**
- Redruth
- **Salary**
- £23,949 - £26,282 per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 30/03/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
Would you like to do a job that makes a difference every day, using your administrative skills and experience, to support the teams that help adults with their mental health in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly?

We want to attract an ambitious, interesting and committed person to this role who will possess significant admin and secretarial experience along with experience of managing and developing staff. You will have a flexible approach to working, the ability to work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, be friendly and approachable with a good sense of humour.

**Main duties of the job**:
An exciting opportunity exists for an efficient, enthusiastic, and friendly individual to join Longreach house admin team as an Inpatient Administrator. You will provide the necessary administrative support to enable the efficient and effective functioning of this team including:

- Supervision and appraisal of admin and clerical staff within the teams.
- Provide full administrative support for the Business Support Manager, Ward Managers, Matron, and GSA Supervisors.
- Maintain positive responsive attitude to the demands of the clients, team members and internal/external agencies in the context of a diverse and varying workload.
- Ensuring there is adequate admin and clerical resource and cover to support the smooth day-to-day running of the service.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and du