Senior Hospital Administrator

**Senior Hospital Administrator**:
**Band 3**:
**Main area**
- Senior Hospital Administrator
- **Grade**
- Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 19 hours per week (Monday and Tuesday 09.00 to 17.00 and Wednesday 09.00 to 13.00)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-612**Site**
- St Barnabas Community Hospital
- **Town**
- Saltash
- **Salary**
- £21,730 - £23,177 Pro Rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 09/05/2023 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**:
To manage the office administration for a range of clinical teams including outpatient services within peripheral community hospitals including medical secretarial correspondence. To act as the first point of contact for communications between patients, visitors and health professionals (both internal / external). To be responsible for managing the maintenance and fabric of the building and liaising with suppliers, traders and support services to the building and acting as the named intermediary with Estates and Emergency Services as required.

The St. Barnabas Hospital Team comprises of multidisciplinary clinicians and support staff who will deliver care to patients. It will also be necessary occasionally to give clerical support to visiting clinicians.

This post will frequently demand working alone within the main office of the Hospital. The post is 19 hours per week supporting the hospital to provide administrative cover Monday and Tuesday 9.00 to 17.00 and Wednesday 09.00 to 13.00,. On occasion there may be a requirement for the postholder to be flexible at times to cover sickness or annual leave of jobs share colleague.

**Main duties of the job**:
The post holder will work flexibly across all areas of hospital admin routinely at the needs of the service. Priorities may change throughout the day and ability to adapt and enjoy variety is key.

The role encompasses managing the main reception, prepping for clinics, typing for clinics (both in house and ENT and Vascular clinics) and managing the site outpatient clinic rooms and schedules. Additional areas include managing other room bookings, liaising with estates contractors and site estates admin duties, petty cash and ordering stationery as directed. Small level of filing in maintaining hospital folders relating to security/fire/health and safety and COSHH as directed by the Business Support Supervisor in conjunction with the Matron.

**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 sup