Job summary
To provide integrated and comprehensive administrative support to the Community Mental Health Team dealing with client enquiries and maintaining good office systems.
Main duties of the job
To provide full admin support for teams, working closely with the team and their colleagues, helping to cover admin roles and working with each other to provide smooth running of the admin team. On occasions helping other admin colleagues covering all roles and helping to cover reception during busy periods and annual leave.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Undertaking copy typing word processing support to the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) for the provision of required client related reports, letters, discharge summaries etc. including legal documentation, whilst prioritising workload and meeting deadlines.
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Dealing with incoming correspondence on a daily basis, distributing and taking appropriate action as necessary, ensuring urgent items are brought to the attention of professional staff within the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Undertaking copy typing word processing support to the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) for the provision of required client related reports, letters, discharge summaries etc. including legal documentation, whilst prioritising workload and meeting deadlines.
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Dealing with incoming correspondence on a daily basis, distributing and taking appropriate action as necessary, ensuring urgent items are brought to the attention of professional staff within the team.
Person Specification
typing compentency
Essential
Desirable
knowledge of working within a team
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge of being able to work with others
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
typing compentency
Essential
Desirable
knowledge of working within a team
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge of being able to work with others
Essential
Desirable
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
