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Job summary

Main area
Urgent Care
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 20 hours per week
Job ref
274-11211-SP
Employer
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Horizon Centre, Homer House
Town
Lincoln
Salary
£24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/11/2024 23:59
Interview date
09/12/2024

Employer heading

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

CYP Team Secretary

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

We are looking for a friendly, reliable, hardworking administrator to join our committed Children & Young People (CYP) Services. This is an office-based position with some flexibility for home working but there may be a requirement to travel across the county for meetings/training or to support the needs of the service. Mileage will be paid.

The position is for 20 hours per week to support the Mental Health Liaison Service within Urgent Care.  The base is Lincoln.

We are looking for someone flexible with the ability to work on their own or part of a wider team. You will be a key member of a friendly team and service who will help to support all teams in times of need with contributing to the smooth and efficient running of the office.

We will offer comprehensive training and development opportunities for the successful applicant. For further information contact Teresa Shane - 07929 751015 or [email protected]

Main duties of the job

To undertake administration duties in support of clinical and non-clinical activity in the CYP Service ensuring administrative support is available to management team and service as appropriate.
This will include, but is not limited to:

  • To assist with coordinating meetings including the provision of note taking, preparation and circulating supporting documentation.
  • Diary management.
  • Gathering information and data inputting.
  • Help to assist with data monitoring using Excel housekeeping reports.
  • Supporting with inputting referrals onto the clinical system.
  • Typing letters and correspondence using audio/copy typing and word processing systems.
  • To provide reception support if required.
  • Liaising with internal and external providers.
  • Navigating and updating clinical systems and electronic databases.
  • Maintaining the services' shared online workspace/website if required.
  • Management and coordination of rota tasks.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
    When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

    We can also offer many staff benefits to help support you which include:
    • Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
    • Competitive annual leave allowance
    • Car leasing scheme
    • Childcare Vouchers
    • NHS pension scheme
    • Free eye tests
    • Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
    • Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ 3 in Business Administration or equivalent qualification or relevant experience
  • Good standard of general education including English
Desirable criteria
  • RSA or equivalent qualifications.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Considerable experience in an office administration role
  • Extensive experience of Microsoft Office packages, including Word, Excel, and Publisher
  • Typing and formatting letters
  • Data inputting and monitoring
  • Outlook and diary management
  • Extensive customer service experience
  • Planning and scheduling events, meetings, diary appointments
  • Understand data reports
  • Use of Clinical systems
  • Minute Taking
  • Petty Cash and Office finance
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a medical or NHS setting.
  • Experience of working in a mental health environment
  • Familiar with Trust database systems preferably RIO
  • Finance/Procurement systems
  • Big Hand
  • Data cleansing

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good communication skills ensuring that service users, staff and carers are treated in a polite and efficient manner, using tact and confidentiality at all times.
  • Good organisational skills, with the ability to respond to multiple requests and the ability to efficiently manage and organise own workload.
  • Good office skills being able to work under pressure and deadlines
  • Typing to a high standard, including letter writing and formatting
  • Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel, Outlook and Publisher
  • Good understanding of information governance and patient confidentiality
  • Professional telephone manner with the ability to deal with difficult conversations professionally and compassionately
  • Petty Cash and office finance
Desirable criteria
  • Minute taking and organising meeting paperwork

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Sunflower Hidden DisabilitiesTimewise-Flex Positive EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoMenopause Friendly EmployerArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.AccessAbleStonewall Gold 2022Dying to Work CharterStep into healthCarer Confident -AccomplishedNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkOne Workforce Lincolnshire ICSPastoral Care Quality AwardStonewall Top 100 2024Stonewall Bronze Award 2024

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Teresa Shane
Job title
CYP Urgent Care Lead Administrator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07929 751015
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