Team Administrator

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced and enthusiastic Team Administrator to join the newly developed Sleaford CMHT.

The Community Mental Health Team is a Monday to Friday 9-5 service, helping to support people with a severe and enduring mental illness.

This is an exciting time to join the trust, in LPFT we are forging ahead in our community transformation plans that aim to offer a dynamic, localised approach that is responsive, evaluated & tailored to local need, targeting health inequalities. The community mental health team will be central to this focus.

The post holder will be responsible for providing comprehensive, efficient and effective administrative support to the clinical team and wider MDT and locality. The post holder is responsible for the smooth and efficient running and management of processing referrals, data inputting, report writing, dealing with the needs of patients, in addition to providing admin duties to all members of the Community Mental Health Team, namely telephone, channelling incoming calls, word processing, registering referrals, petty cash management and ordering of stationery. Essential to this role is excellent IT skills and good telephone manner.

The post holder is responsible for the smooth and efficient running and management of processing referrals, data inputting, report writing, dealing with the needs of patients, in addition to providing admin duties to all members of the Community Mental Health Team, namely telephone, channelling incoming calls, word processing, registering referrals, petty cash management and ordering of stationery.

To provide a high standard of service to all colleagues resulting in safe and effective treatments for service users & their families/carers

Duties provided within defined time standards

Compliance with appropriate legislation and LPFT policies

Feedback from colleagues and other stakeholders

Compliance with CQC standards

Accurate and appropriate information is recorded appropriately using the Trust’s information systems

Productivity targets are met

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Gathering appropriate information from a variety of sources to input accurately onto a database.

Production of basic reports including graphs and tables as directed.

Communicating sensitively with anyone coming into the department maintaining strict standards of confidentiality

Responsible for making room bookings and maintaining room booking diary.

Assist in scheduling of appointments and diary management as appropriate using Microsoft calendar

Assist in the stock control and electronic ordering of all office equipment and stationery; and the subsequent electronic receipting of all received supplies.

Assist in the proper functioning, maintenance and fault reporting of central equipment used by the Team, e.g. photocopiers, fax machines, printers, computers etc.

Record all data using the appropriate information system or manually where this is required including data entry, word processing, scanning of documents for e-noting and storage.

Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, appropriate Codes of Conduct, the Mental Health Act (1983) and other relevant national and local guidance.

Filing, including use of Share Point system for storing, retrieving and filing information.

Assisting colleagues in the setting up of LIVE meeting to conduct remote meetings throughout the Organisation (where appropriate).

Supporting the Trust’s vision to become paperless and encourage Manager to do the same.

To take key responsibility for the smooth running, co-ordination and management of Outpatients Clinics.

To ensure that service users and visitors to the Community Mental Health Team are dealt with in an efficient and friendly manner.