CAMHS Senior Administrator - CLAMHS

This post requires someone with knowledge and experience of working in a busy and varied environment and feels at ease working with clinical staff and children, parents and visitors attending the clinics. The post- holder will have the ability to be adaptable, initiate changes and to have a flexible and unflappable approach. The post holder should offer a strong contribution towards maintaining high standards of our service., The post holder will be responsible for providing a proactive, comprehensive administrative and secretarial service to a multi-disciplinary team, enabling the team to operate effectively and efficiently.

Working alongside two teams, Children Looked After (CLAMHS) and the Youth Justice Team (YJS).

Talking telephone calls and monitoring all e-mails to the service.

The role also include specific tasks such as wailing list management, information governance requests, and Health and Safety, Fire Warden responsibilities.

We are looking for a person able to provide comprehensive administrative support to a multi-disciplinary team. You would be the first point of contact for families/carers and other members of the service user's network. You would be required to demonstrate sound knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes including, Outlook, Word and particular Excel. The post holder will be required to collate data and produce quarterly reports for the respective service. The post holder will be comfortable with IT and be keen to learn new software packages and processes.

The London Borough of Lambeth has a population of 317,800 (GLA 2020). Lambeth'spopulation is highly diverse, a characteristic visible in the breadth of ethnic and cultural traditions seen throughout the borough. It is estimated that 63% of the population describe their ethnicity as other than White British; 23% describe their ethnicity as Black (11% Black African, 7% Black Caribbean and 5% OtherBlack), 22% White Other and 6% as Asian.

The Annual population survey, estimates that a third of Lambeth's residents are non-UK born. Of these non-UK born, 40% are of wider European origin, 20% are of African origin; and 20% of Central or South American origin. Nearly 150 languages are spoken as the first language in the homes of Lambeth school children. Portuguese, Spanish and Somali, are the most commonly spoken other languages in Lambeth.

Lambeth has a child and youth population aged 0-20 of almost 70,000. Over 50% of this number are 0 to 9 years old.