Receptionist - Leigh, United Kingdom - Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Leigh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Wigan Admin Teams for a Weekend Receptionist based at Atherleigh Park Hospital. The working hours will be 09:00-17:00 Saturday and Sunday.

The post holder will meet and greet the General Public, Clinical and Clerical Staff and will ensure all reception processes are carried out in a timely and accurate manner.

The postholder will provide an efficient and professional Reception service ensuring quality service to all users. The post holder will also be required to undertake general clerical duties within the reception.

To have a flexible approach in providing admin support to the multi-disciplinary teams working with a client group with mental health problems.

There will be client and carer telephone contact and also, face-to-face contact at some sites and therefore, good communication skills are essential

To meet the needs of the Trust services, you may be required from time to time to work outside of your normal area of work.

The Trust reserves the right to change your normal area of work to any other location within the Trust. There may be a requirement to provide cover for other sites reception areas.

Provide admin support to the clinical team
Ensure that sufficient stocks of stationery are available to meet the needs of the team without resorting to stockpiling.
Monitor your own performance against agreed objectives as identified in the appraisal
Ensuring general tidiness of the reception
Supporting colleagues appropriately with tasks to be carried out whilst covering reception duties.
Recording messages accurately in the daily diary for all team members
Dealing efficiently, precisely, and courteously with telephone
Being the first line of telephone contact to all service users, carers/relatives, displaying a warm, friendly, and helpful attitude This will include receiving referrals and arranging appointments, updating this on the Paris system.
Responsibility for directly receiving service users, checking all patients' demographic details are complete and updated on the Paris system to support with quality improvement performance across the

Full details of role and responsibility can be found in the attached job description and person specification

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work.

From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users

See attached detailed job description and person specification:
Staff benefits

Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
Excellent pension
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Wellbeing programme
Blue Light Card Discounts