Team Administrator - Southampton, United Kingdom - Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

The New Forest Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is looking for an efficient and well-motivated administrator, to join the team to support timely care delivery to children and young people open to our service.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive, and creative team of clinicians and admin staff dedicated to developing and providing a quality service to respond to and improve children and young people's mental health in the New Forest Locality.

The post is ideally suited to someone who is enjoys working in an office environment within a team. This is an interesting and varied role, with admin staff often being first point of contact for our patients, their families and outside agencies.

Main duties of the job

Your main responsibilities will be to provide a comprehensive range of administrative and secretarial services to the team, which will include handling all aspects of correspondence, including processing referrals, typing clinical letters and working across patient electronic record systems, maintaining security and access of records.

You will be confident in managing enquires coming into service, via telephone and emails and will be able to respond and divert effectively.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

As a Trust, our footprint spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities.

We function as a unified team, placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

Our 7,000+ workforce is skilled and diverse, with a deep commitment to ongoing staff development. We offer customised training, leadership pathways, and a plethora of career opportunities.

We respect and listen to your thoughts, ideas, and concerns via well-established network of staff groups to increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Building on all this, we are currently working closely with other local NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Our new organisation is set to launch in April 2024 and will incorporate Southern Health, Solent, Isle of Wight and Sussex Partnership Trusts.

While the new Trust will be substantially bigger, it will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, streamlining services and making healthcare across the county more accessible.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

If you would like to discuss the post, please contact:

Michelle Jarvis or Natalie Macdonald -- Team Manager New Forest CAMHS

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Qualifications

Essential