Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
CAMHS is a specialist mentalhealth service for children and young people who have moderate to severe mentalhealth problems. The service offers faceto face clinic based and video conferencing approach to delivering care andassessments over four sites across the county.
An excellent opportunity hasarisen for an enthusiastic, experienced individual to join our team on apermanent basis, working on our reception at Redditch CAMHS. The successful candidate will be working 37.5hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.30am 4.30pm with 30 minutes unpaidbreak. Your base will be CAMHS Redditch,which is situated in Redditch Town Hall, in the town centre.
Please note the Trust will not providesponsorship to work for this role, to apply you must have current right to workin the UK status.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will besat on our main reception meeting and greeting patients and staff members,answering the main telephone where you will be expected to take messages andpass them onto the relevant staff members.You will also be responsible for room bookings at CAMHS Redditch andcomplete admin tasks within the remit of your role.
The ability to use yourinitiative, work proactively, demonstrate excellent communication andinfluencing skills, manage and prioritise your own workload and respondflexibly to changing demands are essential requirements of the role.
Theremay be occasions when you are required to work from any of the CAMHS sitesaccording to business needs and therefore a degree of flexibility is required.
We are asupportive and passionate team, and you will receive full training to ensureyou can succeed in this role.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitalsand community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental healthand learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people ofall ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexibleworking options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We valuediversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,and ethnicities.
What we offer;
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to33 days with long service
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you workunsocial hours
* Flexible and agile working opportunities
* Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
* Wide range of supportive staff networks
* Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit ourwebsite.
We encourage you to read the attached applicant guidance notes.
Sharingyour data - As a data controller we may sometimes need to process your data topursue our legitimate business interests, for example to request a survey fromyou (optional), to support the Trusts understanding of where you gainedinterest in working for the Trust.
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Administrative
Undertake reception duties, including booking patients intoclinic, using computerised systems.
Answer / deal with both face to face and telephone enquiries.
Provide administrative support e.g. typing, data inputting,filing, photocopying and facsimile as deemed appropriate, in line with TrustPolicies and Procedures.
Deal with incoming and outgoing post.
Communication and Liaison
Act as first point of contact.
Answer / deal with non-clinical enquiries / queries, bothface to face and via the telephone, in a friendly and courteous manner and passthem on to the relevant member of staff in an appropriate and timely manner.
Provide an excellent customer service role to both internal andexternal personnel.
Liaise and interact appropriately with other users and colleagues,as and when required.
Maintain and update all clinical and non-clinical bookings ofmeeting rooms, notify appropriate personnel of any changes.
Obtain and retrieve clinical/non-clinical records as requested.
For full details of the duties andcriteria for the role please refer to the job description and personspecification attached.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
* A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
* Good level of literacy and numeracy.
* Good communication and organisational skills.
* Good telephone manner.
Qualifications
* Educated to vocational level 2 in Business Administration OR
* Good general education with a minimum of 2 GCSEs (to include English Language) at grade 9-4 (A*-C)
* OR
* NHS administrative experience and will be expected to undertake the relevant level 2 vocational qualification on appointment to post.
* I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of office procedures.
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook.
* Understanding of the Data Protection Act and code of Confidentiality.
Additional Criteria
* Willingness to undertake further training.
* Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role.
* You understand that we will not provide sponsorship to work for this role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Address
Redditch Town Hall - Thread Needle House
Redditch Town Hall - Thread Needle House
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