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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Forest & TNS Integrated Community Teams (ICT) providing a wide range of administrative support functions that are essential to the provision of quality community health for adults in the locality. The successful candidate will join a well-established, knowledgeable, administrative team working alongside a range of clinical, professional staff.  You will work as part of the Administration Team to ensure the efficient and effective provision of administration services for Multi Disciplinary Team. If you would like to work for an Organisation that values its staff, aims to deliver the best care, offering compassion to service users, their carers and families, we would like to hear from you.

For further information please contact Lesley Kirby (Admin Lead) on 0300 4217954 or Richard Byett (Business and Project Lead) on 0300 4216337

Main duties of the job

The role is extremely varied and requires the ability to deal with a wide range of duties.  Supporting the Admin Lead the successful candidate will contribute to the continuing development of administrative support within this fast-paced environment and supporting the wider ICT teams.

Applicants should evidence an ability to be calm under pressure and a willingness to undertake and learn new tasks.  A range of communication skills, verbal and written, are essential for this role as is the ability to manage challenging deadlines.

This role is based at our Tewkesbury offices, but will require you to travel to other sites, and may require you to support at our Cinderford base occasionally. 

This role will involve significant manual handling for stock delivery.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.