Admin Assistant

Job summary

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Admin Assistant to join our Memory Service at Evington Centre within the Directorate of Adult Mental Health.

Evington Centre is a Community Mental Health Team base supporting older people with mental health difficulties in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. This role will be supporting this team in Evington Centre through a varied amount of admin support.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust 6 month induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths

We also offer:

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages
• Health and Wellbeing Support
• An excellent pension scheme

Main duties of the job

The post involves Admin cover in the Memory Service. Being responsible formaintaining records; reporting issues; scanning and typing of letters; photocopying; emails, and telephone calls.

The successful candidate will be the first point of contact for telephone enquiries from patients and referrers. Responsible for monitoring service emails, inputting referrals. Creating and sending patient clinical correspondence and reports.

The ideal candidate will have a "can do" attitude and flexibility to cover colleagues and sometimes provide cover at alternative bases.

You'll need to remain calm under pressure and be able to prioritise, and there will be contact with patients relatives and members of the public.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Evington centre

Gwendolen Road

Leicester

LE5 4QF

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Evington centre

Gwendolen Road

Leicester

LE5 4QF

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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