Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Team Administrator

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Mental Health Care Division Admin and Clerical team as a Band 3 Team Secretary with Warrington Routine Recovery Team.

This role will provide full administrative support to our community mental health team based within Wakefield House. This service provides care and support for service users with severe and enduring mental health issues as well as those with less severe illness who have not responded to provided interventions in primary care services.

We are looking for a person who is innovative, transformational and able to prioritise their workload due to the role developing and being fast paced.

The hours are full time 30 hours per week, The role is for 30 hours per week to be worked over 4 days. Non-working day can be discussed.

The post holder will have excellent communication and organisational skills. The ideal candidate will be able to juggle their workload to support the changing priorities of the team,

An RSA II or equivalent is essential as is experience of working with Information systems.

Main duties of the job

  • Daily retrieval of referrals received, opening, and uploading to Rio.
  • Attending daily MDT meeting with clinical team to review referrals, recording of minutes and action plan.
  • Booking of appointments and diary management for Clinical team.
  • Sending appointment letters in a timely manner.
  • Sending text messages for upcoming appointments.
  • Telephone calls to and from service users, stakeholders, and outside agencies.
  • Close liaison with Warrington GP Surgeries.
  • Close working relationship with various internal teams and any other outside agencies.
  • Ensuring all actions against admin role are followed through daily with completion or carry over for further discussion.
  • Daily maintenance of email inbox.
  • Attendance at weekly meetings with Talking Matters to record discussions regarding referrals to each others team.
  • Attending evening safety huddle meetings every other week to record minutes and disseminate to team.
  • Responding in a timely manner to requests from Clinical Leads, Operations Manager and Operations Director.
  • Supporting Office Manager with required information in relation to the referrals received.
  • Attending any ad-hoc meetings in relation to the team.

Successful applicants will be able to organise their own workload and have excellent interpersonal skills and a friendly telephone manner. There is a need to be able to work to tight deadlines and withstand the pressure of a busy department and it is essential that you are able to work on your own initiative.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Details

Date posted

25 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

350-MHC6993730-A

Job locations

Warrington Recovery Team, Wakefield House

Guardian Street

Warrington, Cheshire

WA5 1GH


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full detail and main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full detail and main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RSA II or equivalent
  • Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office products

Desirable

  • ECDL

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working as medical secretary
  • Experience of information systems

Desirable

  • Experience/knowledge of people experiencing mental health issues
  • Experience of working in health care setting

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills both verbal and non verbal
  • Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service delivery
  • Demonstrate the ability to organise own duties and prioritise taks within agreed timescales
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Knowledge of medical terminology
  • Audio typing skills
  • Willingness to gain understanding of local targets in order to take an active part in achieving targets relevant to the role
  • Ability to maintain confidentially

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Flexible working approach.
  • Self motivated.
  • Professional attitude
  • Ability to adhere to strict deadlines.
  • Possess a caring, compassionate and empathic attitude.
  • Able to meet the Trust's professional standards e.g. dress code, customer care.
  • Ability/willingness to undergo further training as necessary.

Values

Essential

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • High professional standards
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
  • Change oriented
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RSA II or equivalent
  • Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office products

Desirable

  • ECDL

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working as medical secretary
  • Experience of information systems

Desirable

  • Experience/knowledge of people experiencing mental health issues
  • Experience of working in health care setting

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills both verbal and non verbal
  • Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service delivery
  • Demonstrate the ability to organise own duties and prioritise taks within agreed timescales
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Knowledge of medical terminology
  • Audio typing skills
  • Willingness to gain understanding of local targets in order to take an active part in achieving targets relevant to the role
  • Ability to maintain confidentially

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Flexible working approach.
  • Self motivated.
  • Professional attitude
  • Ability to adhere to strict deadlines.
  • Possess a caring, compassionate and empathic attitude.
  • Able to meet the Trust's professional standards e.g. dress code, customer care.
  • Ability/willingness to undergo further training as necessary.

Values

Essential

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • High professional standards
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
  • Change oriented

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Warrington Recovery Team, Wakefield House

Guardian Street

Warrington, Cheshire

WA5 1GH


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Warrington Recovery Team, Wakefield House

Guardian Street

Warrington, Cheshire

WA5 1GH


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Office Manager

Lorraine Hawkins

Lorraine.Hawkins2@merseycare.nhs.uk

01925666660

Details

Date posted

25 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

350-MHC6993730-A

Job locations

Warrington Recovery Team, Wakefield House

Guardian Street

Warrington, Cheshire

WA5 1GH


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