Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Bank Admin Talking Therapies Grays Essex

The closing date is 01 September 2025

Job summary

Trust Bank - Administrator Thurrock Health Centre for Talking Therapies.

Shifts are 8:30- 17:00 with lates 12:00-20:00 Monday - Friday

To undertake general administrative and reception support across all teams. Undertake any other duties considered reasonable and connected with the post.

Main duties of the job

To complete all administrative tasks undertaken by the admin team providing cross cover where needed.

  • Respond promptly to all incoming telephone calls/fax/emails to ensure urgent matters are dealt with promptly with messages recorded and relayed accurately.
  • Monitoring voicemail and dealing with call backs promptly including cancellations/rescheduling of appointments
  • Contacting service users by telephone.
  • Dealing with enquiries to the services by patients and their family, health professionals.
  • Receive, distribute and despatch mail, ensuring confidentiality is maintained.
  • To carry out typing, word processing of reports, documents and correspondence.
  • Assist in receiving visitors and making appointments where necessary.
  • Inclusion Thurrock is a 08:30 - 20:00 hr service and staff are required to work evenings and late shift, currently one evening per week. Work flexibly as a team and support each other as needed.
  • Required on an ad-hoc basis to lock up the office in accordance with the current lock up procedures when completing a late shift.
  • Responsible for providing high quality administrative support to the multi-disciplinary psychological therapies team including room bookings, responding to staff sickness alerts and batch distribution of patient correspondence.
  • Diarise work to be completed weekly / monthly.
  • Working at reception desk on a rota system.
  • Expected to use own initiative to deal with routine matters.

About us

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Details

Date posted

18 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£12.75 an hour Per hours

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

301-Bank-25-7425108

Job locations

Thurrock Health Centre

55-57 High Street

Grays

RM176NB


Job description

Job responsibilities

see attached job description

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Job description

Job responsibilities

see attached job description

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Knowledge of administrative procedures and systems.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Excellent IT Skills

Experience

Essential

  • Previous administrative experience

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience of data input
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Knowledge of administrative procedures and systems.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Excellent IT Skills

Experience

Essential

  • Previous administrative experience

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience of data input

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Thurrock Health Centre

55-57 High Street

Grays

RM176NB


Employer's website

https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Thurrock Health Centre

55-57 High Street

Grays

RM176NB


Employer's website

https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Admin Lead

Tina Stone

tina.stone@mpft.nhs.uk

01375898680

Details

Date posted

18 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£12.75 an hour Per hours

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

301-Bank-25-7425108

Job locations

Thurrock Health Centre

55-57 High Street

Grays

RM176NB


Supporting documents

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