Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Administrator

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Job summary

An exciting vacancy has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Administrator to support Virtual wards and urgent care response (HICAF). You should be highly committed, organized and be able to work to a high standard. The ability to prioritize, work to deadlines and achieve targets is also essential and a willingness to support change and improvement within the service is expected. The Intermediate Care and Frailty Service is committed to delivering an excellent service to all patients both in the Community and Care Settings. This is a Health and Social Care multi-disciplinary/multi-organisational service,

Experience of working within a healthcare/social care environment is desirable but not essential however it is essential that that the applicant should demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with clients, carers and other professionals. It is essential that the applicant has the ability to travel independently across the Trust and be able to work flexibly over 7 days on rota.

Main duties of the job

The role consists of various duties including liaison with Health Care Professionals, working across multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational Health and Social Care Services, managing referrals on the Health and Social Care databases, general office typing, telephone enquiries & liaison with service users.

About us

At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.

They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.

After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them

Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.

P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide..

E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.

O- Open and Honest -We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.

P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.

L- Locally Lead -We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.

E- Efficient -We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.

Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.

Details

Date posted

03 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9835-HA23-183a

Job locations

Halton Borough Council

Heath Road

Runcorn

Cheshire

WA7 5TD


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

To provide comprehensive administrative support to the Hicaf team based at Runcorn town hall (HICAF)working flexibly over 7 days as required by rota.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To provide personal administration and secretarial support for the Intermediate Care and Frailty Service to ensure the smooth and efficient running of services.

To maintain a high professional standard in terms of the performance of duties in terms of general conduct, including maintaining confidentiality.

To work flexibly across organisational boundaries as required and to present at all times a positive image of the Services.

To prioritise workload to meet agreed timescales.

To take and transcribe minutes of approved Service/Team meetings ensuring they accurately reflect the discussions at the meetings.

To collate data for Commissioners and Clinical audit and generate reports using appropriate office applications mainly EMIS.

To maintain electronic diaries and arrange appointments and to deal with any correspondence relating to this and log all messages received.

Typing of clinical letters/medical reports and other correspondence required by the Services.

To be responsible for sourcing, ordering and auditing of resources.

To be responsible for the requesting of medical documentation from other hospitals / units as and when required.

Work across multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational Health and Social Care Services.

Load referrals and input data on Social Care Database.

Communication

To liaise and maintain excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, at all levels within the team.

To organise meetings as directed. These may require contact with multi agencies requiring the co-ordination of mutually convenient times.

To assess and action information received, using own initiative and to refer on to appropriate individual as necessary.

To be first point of contact for clients and offer a professional solution to client queries.

To be able to communicate effectively and professionally both on the telephone and face to face with clients, carers and other professionals.

To offer administrative support to other services as required.

Professional Development

To participate in protected learning time and attend Service/Team and administrative staff meetings as required.

To participate in the individual performance review system.

To update administrative / computer skills identified by utilising appropriate learning opportunities.

To participate in all statutory and mandatory training in relation to the post.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

To provide comprehensive administrative support to the Hicaf team based at Runcorn town hall (HICAF)working flexibly over 7 days as required by rota.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To provide personal administration and secretarial support for the Intermediate Care and Frailty Service to ensure the smooth and efficient running of services.

To maintain a high professional standard in terms of the performance of duties in terms of general conduct, including maintaining confidentiality.

To work flexibly across organisational boundaries as required and to present at all times a positive image of the Services.

To prioritise workload to meet agreed timescales.

To take and transcribe minutes of approved Service/Team meetings ensuring they accurately reflect the discussions at the meetings.

To collate data for Commissioners and Clinical audit and generate reports using appropriate office applications mainly EMIS.

To maintain electronic diaries and arrange appointments and to deal with any correspondence relating to this and log all messages received.

Typing of clinical letters/medical reports and other correspondence required by the Services.

To be responsible for sourcing, ordering and auditing of resources.

To be responsible for the requesting of medical documentation from other hospitals / units as and when required.

Work across multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational Health and Social Care Services.

Load referrals and input data on Social Care Database.

Communication

To liaise and maintain excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, at all levels within the team.

To organise meetings as directed. These may require contact with multi agencies requiring the co-ordination of mutually convenient times.

To assess and action information received, using own initiative and to refer on to appropriate individual as necessary.

To be first point of contact for clients and offer a professional solution to client queries.

To be able to communicate effectively and professionally both on the telephone and face to face with clients, carers and other professionals.

To offer administrative support to other services as required.

Professional Development

To participate in protected learning time and attend Service/Team and administrative staff meetings as required.

To participate in the individual performance review system.

To update administrative / computer skills identified by utilising appropriate learning opportunities.

To participate in all statutory and mandatory training in relation to the post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good general standard of education

Desirable

  • NVQ in Business Administration or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

  • To have proven clerical experience and/or be able to demonstrate administrative knowledge.
  • To have proven experience of working in an office environment.
  • Experience of working in a multi-professional/multi-organisation Team

Desirable

  • Working within a healthcare/social care environment.
  • Experience transcribing medical information.
  • Experience communicating with clients exhibiting challenging behaviour.

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with clients, carers and other professionals.
  • Excellent team player.
  • To be able to use own initiative.
  • To be able to prioritise workload in order to meet given deadlines.
  • Keyboard skills and use of Microsoft applications.
  • Ability to Minute Take at meetings

Desirable

  • Health and Social Care Data Base Experience
  • Diary maintenance, both electronic and manual
  • PowerPoint/Excel/Word
  • Audio and copy typing
  • Working knowledge of EMIS

Job Specific Requirements

Essential

  • The ability to travel independently across the Trust
  • The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
  • To demonstrate a flexible approach to working times and practices in accordance with Service needs over 7 days on rota.
  • Maintenance of confidentiality and diplomacy.
  • Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share-codes will be checked if applicable)
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good general standard of education

Desirable

  • NVQ in Business Administration or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

  • To have proven clerical experience and/or be able to demonstrate administrative knowledge.
  • To have proven experience of working in an office environment.
  • Experience of working in a multi-professional/multi-organisation Team

Desirable

  • Working within a healthcare/social care environment.
  • Experience transcribing medical information.
  • Experience communicating with clients exhibiting challenging behaviour.

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with clients, carers and other professionals.
  • Excellent team player.
  • To be able to use own initiative.
  • To be able to prioritise workload in order to meet given deadlines.
  • Keyboard skills and use of Microsoft applications.
  • Ability to Minute Take at meetings

Desirable

  • Health and Social Care Data Base Experience
  • Diary maintenance, both electronic and manual
  • PowerPoint/Excel/Word
  • Audio and copy typing
  • Working knowledge of EMIS

Job Specific Requirements

Essential

  • The ability to travel independently across the Trust
  • The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
  • To demonstrate a flexible approach to working times and practices in accordance with Service needs over 7 days on rota.
  • Maintenance of confidentiality and diplomacy.
  • Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share-codes will be checked if applicable)

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

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Halton Borough Council

Heath Road

Runcorn

Cheshire

WA7 5TD


Employer's website

http://bridgewater.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Halton Borough Council

Heath Road

Runcorn

Cheshire

WA7 5TD


Employer's website

http://bridgewater.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Team

bchft.bch.recruitment@nhs.net

bchft.bch.recruitment@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

03 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9835-HA23-183a

Job locations

Halton Borough Council

Heath Road

Runcorn

Cheshire

WA7 5TD


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