Receptionist / Administrator

The candidate should have significant experience in the NHS or a similar institution.

To provide effective and efficient administration which supports management by ensuring a high standard of data quality and by making the best use of capacity and resources.

To work as a member of a functional, task-based team, ensuring robustcommunication and liaison with your administrative colleagues and with clinical practitioners. Responsible for the provision of a professional, comprehensive and effective administrative service to the Division/Service Line/Team., A significant aspect of the role is to liaise with clinicians to affect the timely collection of data for internal auditing and external reporting systems and as such the post holder should be an excellent communicator.

A strong attention to detail, IT skills and accurate patient data entry skills are essential with the ability to use your initiative and prioritise your own workload. Having experience of using Carenotes our electronic patient record is desirable.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.