Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (None)
- Job ref
- 380-SS0579-B
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Little Brook Hospital, Greenacres Site
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Act Administration Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an Administration Assistant to join the Mental Health Act based in Little Brook Hospital, Dartford.
Whilst the post is based within the MHA team at Dartford, the post holder will be covering work for all three Mental Health Teams, in Dartford, Canterbury, and Maidstone.
The role includes all areas of administration such as filing, uploading, photocopying, and assisting the Mental Health Co-ordinators and the Head of Service of the Mental Health Act teams.
Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.
Main duties of the job
- Uploading of documents in accordance with Mental Health data sets.
- Providing reassurance in terms of Medical MHA scrutiny
- Organising across all three areas, checklists and spreadsheets as required.
- Photocopying of reports
- Answering the telephone and assisting panel members on days of patient reviews.
- Auditing ward reviews across all three areas
- Inputting on e-med system as directed by the Mental Health Act Co-ordinator
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To make room bookings for meetings to take place (virtual and in person).
- Work on own initiative to prioritise administrative procedures to meet the requirements of the department, and to work efficiently as part of a team.
- The post holder will be required to undertake training and attend regular updates to achieve a working knowledge of the Act in order to carry out procedures with understanding and to provide basic advice to staff and clients when the Mental Health Administrators are absent.
Please see the job description for more information
What is High Cost Area Allowance?
The High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance, also referred to as London Weighting is a payment made to employees who work in London and the surrounding areas.
As this post is based in Dartford, Gravesham or Swanley, the successful applicant will receive an additional payment each month.
5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,192 per year and a maximum payment of £2,011 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly)
Person specification
Questions
Essential criteria
- Good Computer/IT skills
- Good Level of English Language
Desirable criteria
- Some Mental Health Act Knowledge preferable
- Some experience of RIO or patient computer systems
Questions
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Prioritising workloads and managing one's own workload
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clair Rudden-Vine
- Job title
- Head of Service - Mental Health Act
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07762000851
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
- Telephone
- 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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