Administrator

**Job Title**:
Administrator

**Department**:
Alexandra Nursing Home

**Responsible to**:
Home Manager

**Qualifications**:
Knowledge of IT systems, Office Administration

experience.
Purpose of the post
- **To provide administrative support to Alexandra Nursing Home**:

- Under the direction of the of the Home Manager and other nursing

/senior care staff, to liaise with residents, families, and various other bodies, e.g. Occupational Therapy, GP’s, Social Services, Physiotherapy, Health, Charitable Organisations and other external bodies to contribute towards the smooth day to day running of the home.
- **In conjunction with the Home Manager and in their absence to be responsible for the general administration within the Care Home.**

Knowledge and Abilities
- **To demonstrate and have an understanding of the client groups within a Care Homes setting, specifically in relation to administrative matters.**:

- In addition to the qualification requirements it is considered the post holder will have knowledge in respect of: Numeracy and literacy.
- Following general office administrative policies and procedures, maintaining records, word processing, filing, photocopying, logging incoming telephone calls; and incoming/outgoing mail.
- To assist the Home Manager in the delivery of high quality administrative services within the Care Home.
- The willingness to attend courses and seminars from time to time in order to keep up to date with developments in respect of the duties of the post-holder.
- The need to maintain confidentiality.

Managing Others
- **The post-holder will always need to be approachable to staff, residents and families on matters causing them concern. Some answers/information will need to be checked with the Home Manager before giving out this information.**

Working with Others
- **The post-holder is expected to work as part of a close-knit team and have the capability to work on their own initiative.**

4.2. The post-holder is expected to work across sectors involving a range of multi-disciplinary partners.
- **Under the direction of the Home's Manager, the post-holder is expected to liaise with a range of multi-disciplinary partners.**:

- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written are required to ensure effective service delivery. The post-holder will be expected to: Undertake any administrative tasks in respect of inter-agency working to the benefit of the residents.
- Give, receive and effectively communicate information to relevant parties, particularly residents and their families.
- Communicate with all Care Home staff through daily interaction and the staff meetings. To provide relevant information to staff concerning service delivery, this is done by ensuring that effective and accessible administration systems maintained within the home. As directed by the Home Manager, to do any administrative task that promotes the

smooth operation of the Care Home, this could include general and/or specific administrative tasks.
Problem Solving / Decision Making / Innovation
- **To take reports from nursing / care staff and discuss these with the Home Manager if necessary.**:

- Work within clearly defined frameworks, both internal and external to the Care Home and to work using own initiative to overcome and solve general problems relating to the administrative procedures within the Care Home and existing broad procedure and policy direction.
- Due to the nature of the work, the post requires a flexible approach to basic problem solving.
- Working within a team environment, it is expected that the post-holder has an understanding and experience of team working and working with other staff within with the Company.

Use of Technology / Practical Skills
- **Some knowledge, understanding and practical experience of IT packages is required.**:

- The ability to assist the Home Manager with the compilation of statistical information using relevant IT packages.
- Input information into the computerised databases.
- Willingness to develop knowledge and skills and the current technology used in the home.

Budgets and Cash Handling
With the Home Manager give assistance & supervision in the following areas:

- **To ensure that accurate records are maintained, and receipts are issued in relation to general financial transactions.**:

- In accordance with the Company's clearly defined financial procedure to assist in the administration of resident fee invoicing system and to ensure that all records relating to the system are up-to-date.
- To assist the in the administering of the local Care Home’s Comfort Fund and assist in maintaining accurate petty cash systems, receipts and banking of resident’s fees.
- To be responsible for ordering stationary and other items for the local home, whilst adhering to the budget.

Unsocial Conditions/ Special Circumstances
- **A flexible approach to the role is required which may include occasional evening and weekend working such as attendance for emerg