Administration Assistant

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an Administration Assistant to join the South locality within the Doncaster Care Group. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Administration Assistant, who wants to participate and contribute to achieving excellent quality of care for our patients. In return for this commitment, we will support and develop your potential and skills through regular supervision and development in this busy role within our friendly Trust.

The successful applicant will be reliable and provide a confidential, quality administration service to the Community Mental Health Teams and also the Planned Community Nursing team for South. They will deal with correspondence and the effective dissemination of information; facilitate service meetings, including minute taking, recording attendance and timely dissemination of agendas/papers.

The successful applicant will possess RSA II Typing/Word Processing or equivalent; be educated to GCSE level (minimum 5 GCSEs, including English and Maths) or hold equivalent qualifications, will have demonstrable experience of working in a busy environment and workload management; be able to use a PC and standard software packages.

For more information about the posts, please contact Liz Lawley or Kirsty Wybrant, Admin Leads, email: rdash.dcg-south-admin-leads@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

• Provide a confidential, quality administratie service to an identified pathway within the Care Group.
• Display and maintain high levels of customer service at all times, ensuring all service users have a positive experience at their point of contact
• Answer telephone calls as per agreed protocols
• To communicate effectively, accurately and professionally, applying discretion and empathy where necessary, with written, telephone and face to face contact, with patients, visitors, other Trust staff and external agencies.
• Create and maintain, up to date computerised patient records and recall systems on SystmOne.
• Update new referrals on to SystmOne. Maintain current referrals and end where advised to do so.
• Provide an efficient and timely photocopying and scanning service to the team.
• Maintain, scan and file paper records and information as appropriate, in line with records management principles.
• Assist in the production of high quality documentation, using Microsoft Word and SystmOne, including confidential letters, non-accidental injury reports, case conference reports, housing reports etc.
• Liaise between clients, professional staff and other multi-agency partners as required
• Deal with telephone enquiries in a courteous and efficient manner, recording messages as per agreed systems and escalating as per protocols.

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values.

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

https://workwithrdash.co.uk/

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q