Administrator for School Nursing

Sirona care & health CIC

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Job summary

Through delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, our School Nursing Service work in partnership with children, families and professionals to promote health and wellbeing by supporting children, young people and their carers with their physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing, and by equipping young people with the resources they need to make healthy lifestyle choices throughout life.

The School Nursing Service supports all school aged (5-19) children and young people across North Somerset, working in partnership with multi-disciplinary health teams within community and acute services, local authority and voluntary sector teams - to deliver a clinically effective, high quality health service to the school aged population, in a variety of settings.

Core Service hours are currently between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

This vacancy is for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 9-5pm.

Main duties of the job

To provide comprehensive administrative support to the School Nursing team. To act as an effective link across CCHP staff, Schools, Children's Social Care, GPs, the general public and other relevant bodies.

The post requires organisation, attention to detail and initiative to ensure that the best possible care is delivered to children, young people, their families and that targeted tasks are completed on time.

The post holder will be based in North Somerset at Badger House, and will work closely with administrators in other areas such as Health Visiting, Children's Continence and the Children Looked After and Care Leavers Teams.

The Post Holder will be responsible for:

Liaising with families, other health professionals and other agencies to make appointments on behalf of and at the request of the school nursing team.

Acting as the central information and contact point for parents/ carers, medical and nursing staff and other agencies and disseminating information as appropriate to the school nursing team.

Data entry of information into pre-populated templates and work based systems.

Undertaking any necessary photocopying, filing, and other administrative duties to ensure the effective running of the office.

Arranging, organising and co-ordinating the booking of premises for meetings.

Working flexibly to support other school nursing team administrators across the area.

About us

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it's about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more!Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details.

We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more!

Date posted

12 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

Depending on experience per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

083-6546130-LW

Job locations

Badger House

Oldmixon Crescent

Weston-super-Mare

BS24 9AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role and can only accept applications from UK based applicants

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role and can only accept applications from UK based applicants

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Good standard of education at GCSE level or equivalent to include English language

Desirable

ICT qualifications
NVQ2 in Business Administration

Experience

Essential

Ability to work unsupervised and prioritise own workload
Experience of team working
Experience of excellent communication skills both face to face and on the telephone
Ability to use Microsoft 365, excel and email
Evidence of high quality written documentation to include letters and reports
Evidence of ability to meet deadlines

Desirable

Experience / understanding of dealing with sensitive and confidential information
Previous clerical experience dealing with telephone queries, correspondence and office administration
Experience of working in a health care setting
Experience using EMIS and Connecting Care

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Good standard of education at GCSE level or equivalent to include English language

Desirable

ICT qualifications
NVQ2 in Business Administration

Experience

Essential

Ability to work unsupervised and prioritise own workload
Experience of team working
Experience of excellent communication skills both face to face and on the telephone
Ability to use Microsoft 365, excel and email
Evidence of high quality written documentation to include letters and reports
Evidence of ability to meet deadlines

Desirable

Experience / understanding of dealing with sensitive and confidential information
Previous clerical experience dealing with telephone queries, correspondence and office administration
Experience of working in a health care setting
Experience using EMIS and Connecting Care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.