Job overview

Due to promotion, the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking senior band 4 administrator to join our senior management team.

We are a small and friendly team, based in the heart of the community in Barton Hill Settlement. The services support Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CAMHS. You will directly report to the Business Coordinator and be working within the CAMHS leadership team.

This team includes the Head of CAMHS, the Clinical Lead and senior managers. You will be integral to the wider CAMHS leadership team and regularly link into the Trust, especially the data analyst team.

We are a forward thinking area of AWP, who champion transformation to create the best care for our children and young people. We have a focus on staff wellbeing and equal opportunity. We are currently moving clinically to working in an i-Thrive model; developing our CAMHS public facing website and constantly looking at how we use data to inform the care we provide. We welcome applications from diverse populations. If you wish to have an informal discussion you can contact the Business Coordinators by email on [email protected] or phone Alison Paton 07999 181120 or Agnes Randall 07354 164123.

Main duties of the job

To provide comprehensive administration and secretarial support to CAMHS managers by supporting the Business Coordinators in their role and minute taking Senior Manager meetings.

Interpret and advise on data and implement relevant procedures. Collect performance date and produce monthly reports as required and directed by the Business coordinators and Senior Manager

You will have excellent skills in data collection and manipulation as well as preparing and presenting reports to a wide range of audiences.

You will need to be highly organised in order to support colleagues with their diaries and respond to a high volume of telephone and email enquiries from across CAMHS and the community.

You will often need to respond to data requests at short notice, as well as coordinate and minute complex meetings.

Working for our organisation

Are you interested in being part of a team that provides vital administrative support and data analysis for a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service?

The post holder will be highly motivated and will be joining a well established experienced team in CAMHS. This is an office based job.

The post holder will directly report to the CAMHS Business Coordinator, work closely with the CAMHS Quality Facilitator and will work within the CAMHS leadership team. This team includes the Head of Operations and Senior Managers. There will be an expectation for the post holder to be highly motivated, flexible and multi-skilled with excellent organisational skills. They will possess excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office systems including Word and Excel. The post holder will need to meet deadlines, collate data and maintain standards relating to administrative processes. They will need to be able to work within a team effectively and share work stresses where appropriate.  

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.