Assistant Mental Health Act Compliance Officer

6 months ago

Ipswich, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust Full time

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 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

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Mental Health Act Compliance Officer to join our Mental Health Act team, based at Woodlands, Ipswich Hospital Site, Ipswich. This is a Band 3, full time role.

There is excellent potential for career advancement existing within the team.

You must be a good, clear communicator and have the ability to deal with issues as they arise. An understanding of confidentiality and data protection is essential.

The ability to prioritise and work on your own initiative, reliability, diplomacy, flexibility and adaptability are key to this position.

The post requires a working knowledge of Microsoft Office software packages.

**Main duties of the job**:
Maintaining the Section 117 Registers: Maintain existing reminder system for clinicians with S117 responsibility. Oversee and support the administration process of the Section 117 after-care service ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the Section 117 records.

To assist and support the Mental Health Act Compliance Officers with tasks associated with recording MHA data and maintaining compliance with the MHA.

Support MHA Compliance Officers in timely booking of Associate Hospital Manager appeal and renewal hearings and administrative tasks associated with the same.

**Working for our organisation**:
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

**Why work for us?** We are an improving Trust, with ambitious aspirations and pushing ahead with exciting transformation work. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

**Why Norfolk and Suffolk?** The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Benefits included with this role are:

- We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits and in addition:

- Flexible working hours
- FREE physio service
- Cycle scheme tax-free bikes and accessories
- Support with revalidation
- Post graduate training opportunities

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- English GCSEs A -C

**Desirable criteria**:

- NVQ certificate in Business Administration

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Previous experience working as an administrator/secretary in an office environment
- Experience of using general office equipment, eg scanner, copier
- Able to work proactively on own initiative

**Desirable criteria**:

- Previous experience of working within the NHS

**Knowledge & Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent ICT skills including Microsoft Word and Excel
- Advanced keyboard skills
- Good standard of literacy and numeracy
- Knowledge of Microsoft systems including Word, Excel and Outlook
- Knowledge of office procedures
- Ability to work within a team
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work to a high degree of accuracy

**Desirable criteria**:

- Powerpoint
- Minute taking
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES_Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a divers

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