Administrator

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

  • To provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the CNWLRecovery College and Recovery College Manager.
  • To support the organisation and administration of events and college coursesplanned by the CNWL Recovery College, including events off site.
  • To provide administrative support for the communications, marketing and eventsprogramme of the CNWL Recovery College.
  • To promote, develop and embed the principles of recovery orientated practiceacross the organization.

Main duties of the job

Communication and Events Administration:

1. To undertake marketing and communication tasks as allocated by the CNWL Recovery College Manager and Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator.

2. To organise meetings, events, workshops and courses including room bookings, ordering of hospitality, facilities and equipment, checking arrangements, preparing materials, taking registration, solving organisationalissues on the day and assisting in the recording and reporting of the events.

3. To work with the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator ensuring that the CNWL Recovery College's Intranet and website pages are up-to-date.

Administrative1. To provide efficient and professional administrative support to the CNWL Recovery College, this will include supporting the administration team withcourse registration, sending out of pre-course information and dealing with questions and queries both in person and other the telephone.

2. To act as the first point of contact for the service and handle telephone and email enquiries from external bodies, Trust staff, clinicians, service users and carers. The post holder is required to exercise judgment about how to handle such calls.

About us

There will be an opportunity to work closely with the colleagues and stakeholders across CNWL to promote, develop and embed the principles of recovery-orientated practice across the organisation, as well as developing strong relationships with partner agencies and local communities.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Date posted

23 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£31,081 to £33,665 a year Per annum inc HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

333-J-M-0211

Job locations

Argo House

London

NW6 5FA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication and Events Administration:

1. To undertake marketing and communication tasks as allocated by the CNWL Recovery College Manager and Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator

2. To organise meetings, events, workshops and courses including room bookings, ordering of hospitality, facilities and equipment, checking arrangements, preparing materials, taking registration, solving organisational issues on the day and assisting in the recording and reporting of the events.

3. To work with the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator ensuring that the CNWL Recovery Colleges Intranet and website pages are up-to-date.

4. To work with the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator to develop support materials such as presentations and packs for promotional purposes.

5. To ensure that all materials are produced in plain English and key community languages (where applicable), such as posters and leaflets, liaising with the Communications team as necessary.

6. To provide admin support for the production and distribution of the college prospectus, working closely with the CNWL Recovery College team and the Communication team to ensure that course listings and case studies are up-to-date.

7. To work with the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator and the Communication team to ensure consistent messaging, branding and communications standards across all CNWL Recovery College communications and marketing activity.

8. To communicate and liaise with a range of professionals within the Trust, including professional leads, managers, care coordinators, peer support workers, as well as Commissioners, external agencies and other appropriate stakeholders to deliver CNWL Recovery College courses/workshops.

9. To liaise with local, mainstream organisations in order to assist in offering admin support for jointly delivered courses/workshops and to improve opportunities for the social inclusion of mental health service users.

10. To actively encourage and support effective communication within the team and between the team and other services /organisations.

11. To support the Recovery College Manager in managing the CNWL Recovery College social media accounts

12. To undertake service promotion activities with colleagues.

13. To develop and maintain internal and external contact and distribution lists.

14. To be aware of recovery language with all students by modelling positive strengths based, non discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.

Administrative

1. To provide efficient and professional administrative support to the CNWL Recovery College, this will include supporting the administration team with course registration, sending out of pre-course information and dealing with questions and queries both in person and other the telephone.

2. To act as the first point of contact for the service and handle telephone and email enquiries from external bodies, Trust staff, clinicians, service users and carers. The post holder is required to exercise judgment about how to handle such calls.

3. To prioritise own workload ensuring that relevant deadlines are met.

4. To rapidly analyse situations as they occur, making personal judgment about what level of senior management to escalate serious matters to.

5. To support the administration team in ensuring that all people undertaking courses at the CNWL Recovery College are accounted for either on systmone and or other monitoring systems.

6. To carry out a range of administrative tasks and be able to provide cover for other team members as and when required

7. To provide technically support on online workshops

Information

1. To assist the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator in producing performance reports which are circulated both internally and externally.

2. To be responsible for maintaining information systems in order to produce information as required.

3. To assist the Recovery College Admissions Officer Coordinator in preparing reports ensuring that all the necessary information is included and in the correct format.

4. To ensure filing systems are maintained to a high standard and with due recognition of the need for confidentiality and security.

Supervision, Appraisal, Training and Development

1. To undertake mandatory and statutory training as required by Trust policy.

a. To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual development review/appraisal.

b. To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).

2. To contribute to the local induction of new staff.

3. To contribute to activities which continue to build on a culture of shared learning and evidence based practice.

4. To support peer support and student placements as appropriate; ensuring a good learning environment is maintained.

5. Attend regular supervision with the manager and professional supervisor if required.

Other

The college operates on a term system and post holders will be expected, so far as is reasonably practical, to take their annual leave during the breaks between terms.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication and Events Administration:

1. To undertake marketing and communication tasks as allocated by the CNWL Recovery College Manager and Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator

2. To organise meetings, events, workshops and courses including room bookings, ordering of hospitality, facilities and equipment, checking arrangements, preparing materials, taking registration, solving organisational issues on the day and assisting in the recording and reporting of the events.

3. To work with the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator ensuring that the CNWL Recovery Colleges Intranet and website pages are up-to-date.

4. To work with the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator to develop support materials such as presentations and packs for promotional purposes.

5. To ensure that all materials are produced in plain English and key community languages (where applicable), such as posters and leaflets, liaising with the Communications team as necessary.

6. To provide admin support for the production and distribution of the college prospectus, working closely with the CNWL Recovery College team and the Communication team to ensure that course listings and case studies are up-to-date.

7. To work with the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator and the Communication team to ensure consistent messaging, branding and communications standards across all CNWL Recovery College communications and marketing activity.

8. To communicate and liaise with a range of professionals within the Trust, including professional leads, managers, care coordinators, peer support workers, as well as Commissioners, external agencies and other appropriate stakeholders to deliver CNWL Recovery College courses/workshops.

9. To liaise with local, mainstream organisations in order to assist in offering admin support for jointly delivered courses/workshops and to improve opportunities for the social inclusion of mental health service users.

10. To actively encourage and support effective communication within the team and between the team and other services /organisations.

11. To support the Recovery College Manager in managing the CNWL Recovery College social media accounts

12. To undertake service promotion activities with colleagues.

13. To develop and maintain internal and external contact and distribution lists.

14. To be aware of recovery language with all students by modelling positive strengths based, non discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.

Administrative

1. To provide efficient and professional administrative support to the CNWL Recovery College, this will include supporting the administration team with course registration, sending out of pre-course information and dealing with questions and queries both in person and other the telephone.

2. To act as the first point of contact for the service and handle telephone and email enquiries from external bodies, Trust staff, clinicians, service users and carers. The post holder is required to exercise judgment about how to handle such calls.

3. To prioritise own workload ensuring that relevant deadlines are met.

4. To rapidly analyse situations as they occur, making personal judgment about what level of senior management to escalate serious matters to.

5. To support the administration team in ensuring that all people undertaking courses at the CNWL Recovery College are accounted for either on systmone and or other monitoring systems.

6. To carry out a range of administrative tasks and be able to provide cover for other team members as and when required

7. To provide technically support on online workshops

Information

1. To assist the Recovery College Admissions Office Coordinator in producing performance reports which are circulated both internally and externally.

2. To be responsible for maintaining information systems in order to produce information as required.

3. To assist the Recovery College Admissions Officer Coordinator in preparing reports ensuring that all the necessary information is included and in the correct format.

4. To ensure filing systems are maintained to a high standard and with due recognition of the need for confidentiality and security.

Supervision, Appraisal, Training and Development

1. To undertake mandatory and statutory training as required by Trust policy.

a. To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual development review/appraisal.

b. To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).

2. To contribute to the local induction of new staff.

3. To contribute to activities which continue to build on a culture of shared learning and evidence based practice.

4. To support peer support and student placements as appropriate; ensuring a good learning environment is maintained.

5. Attend regular supervision with the manager and professional supervisor if required.

Other

The college operates on a term system and post holders will be expected, so far as is reasonably practical, to take their annual leave during the breaks between terms.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Administration and event organisation experience is required
  • Demonstrable understanding of the principles of recovery and social inclusion
  • Experience of providing administrative support for promotional materials, brand awareness and web content.
  • Experience of copy writing for online and offline resources
  • Previous experience of working with databases e.g. data entry, retrieval, running of reports
  • Experience of working with a range of stakeholders
  • Experience of working with members of the public

Desirable

  • Lived experience of using mental health services or caring for someone who uses services.
  • Managing design and campaign implementation

Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
  • Ability to assist in writing press releases, news stories, features and web content
  • Knowledge of social media platforms
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team.

Desirable

  • General awareness of service provision in Mental Health services

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Excellent command of the English Language; must have good grammatical knowledge and accurate spelling

Desirable

  • Ability to speak additional languages
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Administration and event organisation experience is required
  • Demonstrable understanding of the principles of recovery and social inclusion
  • Experience of providing administrative support for promotional materials, brand awareness and web content.
  • Experience of copy writing for online and offline resources
  • Previous experience of working with databases e.g. data entry, retrieval, running of reports
  • Experience of working with a range of stakeholders
  • Experience of working with members of the public

Desirable

  • Lived experience of using mental health services or caring for someone who uses services.
  • Managing design and campaign implementation

Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
  • Ability to assist in writing press releases, news stories, features and web content
  • Knowledge of social media platforms
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team.

Desirable

  • General awareness of service provision in Mental Health services

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Excellent command of the English Language; must have good grammatical knowledge and accurate spelling

Desirable

  • Ability to speak additional languages

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Argo House

London

NW6 5FA


Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Argo House

London

NW6 5FA


Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Admissions Hub co-ordinator

Beto Agrela

beto.agrela@nhs.net

Date posted

23 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£31,081 to £33,665 a year Per annum inc HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

333-J-M-0211

Job locations

Argo House

London

NW6 5FA


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