Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Administrator Business Co-Ordinator

The closing date is 29 June 2025

Job summary

The Service User Network (SUN) is a service offering peer support groups across Kent and Medway run by KMPT and MIND. We are seeking a highly motivated and organised individual to join our team as a permanent, part time (33 hours per week) Administrator.

This role offers the opportunity to provide crucial administrative support to mental health clinicians and lived experience facilitators. You will be an integral part of a creative, enthusiastic and supportive team, with opportunities to be involved in a range of meetings and projects.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and empathic, with a professional approach, and the capacity to work flexibly with the changing needs of the service users and the team. If you enjoy team working, using your initiative and are confident to work independently this role could be for you.

Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) are essential, as is an ability to prioritise your workload and work under pressure at times to agreed timescales.

You will:

have excellent skills in MS Office applications

manage the team inbox and voice messages

book users into groups

distribute information

contact users and other stakeholders

manage payment of external venues

organise and minute meetings

collate and present data

have meticulous attention to detail

The role will involve time working from home as well as Thursdays at our base in Maidstone, Kent.

Main duties of the job

  • Use of full range of administrative procedures and software programmes.
  • Knowledge of relevant Trust policies and procedures including branding and HR practices.
  • Contributing to the design and development of standard and bespoke data reports.
  • Managing busy workload and conflicting priorities.
  • Handling confidential and sensitive information in accordance with Information Governance and the Data Protection Act.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication.
  • Excellent keyboard skills to ensure accuracy, speed and optimum use of functions.
  • Ability to analyse a wide variety of sometimes complex situations/information and make conclusions and where appropriate recommendations depending on the nature and complexity of the data and subjects.
  • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise a number of activities and continually reprioritise to meet tight, conflicting and often changing deadlines.
  • Plan own workload to ensure that internal and external targets are met and which may involve extracting information from various systems and takes initiative to query conflicting information or to clarify as appropriate.
  • Training and coaching skills.
  • Create business reports written to standard capable of presentation to senior management team using simple charts to illustrate and with clear and unambiguous explanations/interpretation of data.
  • Ability to work as a member of a team

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Details

Date posted

13 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

380-WK0275

Job locations

The Brenchley Unit

Oakapple Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9NW


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the vacancy's responsibilities and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the vacancy's responsibilities and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A level standard and NVQ3 / RSA3 plus practical experience

Desirable

  • Certificate in management / NVQ4

Experience

Essential

  • Experienced in use of software prorgrammes
  • Experience in admin procedures

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communciation
  • Excellent keyboard skills
  • Able to prepare reports including data analysis
  • Meet deadlines / manage workload
  • Excellent ability to use a wide range of functions in excel and word
  • Able to work as part of team
  • Maintains confidentiality
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A level standard and NVQ3 / RSA3 plus practical experience

Desirable

  • Certificate in management / NVQ4

Experience

Essential

  • Experienced in use of software prorgrammes
  • Experience in admin procedures

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communciation
  • Excellent keyboard skills
  • Able to prepare reports including data analysis
  • Meet deadlines / manage workload
  • Excellent ability to use a wide range of functions in excel and word
  • Able to work as part of team
  • Maintains confidentiality

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 details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

The Brenchley Unit

Oakapple Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9NW


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

The Brenchley Unit

Oakapple Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9NW


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

SUN Team Leader

Cathy Bowen

cathybowen@nhs.net

07707152244

Details

Date posted

13 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

380-WK0275

Job locations

The Brenchley Unit

Oakapple Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9NW


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