Administrator

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Mental Health Care Division as admin support to the Senior Leadership Team.
This role will provide full administrative support to our Mental Health Care Division based across the Trust - base will be at Hollins Park in Winwick.
The post holder will have excellent communication and organisational skills and ideally have experience in a similar role. Minute taking skills is an essential criteria for this role.
The hours are full time 37.5 hours per week, currently worked Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
This role does not support home working., To provide comprehensive, efficient and effective administrative secretarial service to the multi-disciplinary team., Provide an administrative, secretarial and clerical service to support the Team members, ensuring that letters, memos, reports are accurately produced within agreed timescales, data is input to required standards, and an effective filing and retrieval system is maintained.
Effective liaison with multi-disciplinary staff/patients/carers/outside agencies ensuring accurate information is communicated as and when required, including reception/switchboard duties dealing with enquiries from clients and the public.
Responsibility for the processing of incoming and outgoing mail, including prioritising, sorting and action as necessary
Responsibility for arranging clinics, booking appointments and associated data entry including the retrieval and maintenance of patient records.
Responsibility for the maintenance of client database including the collection of statistics.
Arranging, when required, meetings and taking minutes, ensuring accurate transcription and distribution.
Ensuring the maintenance of the referral pathway process following Service procedures including liaison with other agencies.
Responsibility for petty cash being an authorised signatory for same.
To support the completion of Staff Variation Lists and payroll documentation, including medical certificates, as directed by the Team Manager, ensuring documentation is accurate and completed within designated timescales and forwarded to the Payroll Department.
Calculation of annual leave and the recording of staff absence as directed by the Team Manager in accordance with Inter-Agency Policies.
Ensure appropriate records are maintained as directed by Line Manager.
Contribute to the ordering of stationery supplies and associated procedures
Participate in the provision of cover and support to colleagues as required.
Participate in the local induction process for new staff.
Participate in serious untoward incident investigations/reviews as required.
Support individual's equality, diversity and rights.
Participate in patient and public involvement activities.
Contribute towards service improvement initiatives to enhance quality of patient care.
Provide information and support to service users/carers as appropriate.
Contribute to the continued improvement and quality of the Administrative Support Service.
Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
Contribute to the effective and efficient use of resources.
Understand and adhere to Trust policies, procedures and guidelines.
Report any concern regarding patient care to line manager.
To undertake any other delegated duties as appropriate and commensurate with the post.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.