CAMHS Crisis Care Team Administrator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Crisis Care Team.

Our team recently won the Clinical Team of the Year award at the RMCH Awards Ceremony, highlighting our dedication to exceptional patient care.

The successful candidate will provide high-quality and efficient administrative support to our team. The Crisis Care Team is a new service within Manchester Foundation Trust's CAMHS directorate. We are a dedicated group of mental health practitioners and support staff, offering community support to young people and their families experiencing a mental health crisis.

You should be able to use your own initiative, work under pressure, meet strict deadlines, and possess excellent organisational and communication skills. Previous administrative or secretarial experience within a health or hospital setting would be advantageous.

If you are enthusiastic about supporting a dynamic and compassionate team, apply today and help us continue delivering outstanding crisis care!, The successful candidate will support the clinical members of the Crisis Care Team. As we continue taking our first steps as a service, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of a variety of administrative tasks to ensure the smooth running of the service and the best possible experience for children, young people, their families, and carers.

You will play an important role within the team, helping to maintain and, when necessary, improve good working practices. Your responsibilities will include coordinating clinical activity such as managing referrals and appointments, providing secretarial services including typing letters, and reports, organising team members' diaries and maintaining accurate patient records.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.