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Job summary

Main area
CAMHS
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
22.5 hours per week (Part-time role in 1 team = 22.50 hours. Full-time role across 2 teams = 37.5 hours)
Job ref
367-CYP-9550
Employer
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Barnwell School
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£27,485 - £30,162 per annum, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

MHST Administrator

Band 4

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form. 

http://hpft.recruitforvalues.co

 

Job overview

We are looking for an administrative officer to join our Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in  Hitchin, Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City to provide comprehensive administrative support to our Teams. We currently have 3 Part-time posts available  for 22.5 hours per week however we are also able to consider a full-time roll covering two teams for 37.5 hours per week. 

The Post holder will be based in one of the three sites:

  • Barnwell Middle School (Stevenage)
  • William Ransom Academy (Hitchin)
  • Ridgeway Academy (WGC)

Please state your preference for working hours, and site, in your application. 

If you feel you have the skills and experience we are looking for then we would welcome an application from you. 

Main duties of the job

You will co-ordinate information and provide administration and clerical support in order to facilitate the effective running of the service. This will include diary management, comprehensive management of data such as annual leave, sickness and attendance reports on behalf of the Team, filing, and ensuring maximum efficiency of processes.  It is essential that you have GCSE in English Language and Mathematics Grade C or above or equivalent.

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be proficient in the use of a wide range of IT packages, have experience of organising and prioritising diaries and schedules, and experience of organising and taking minutes in meetings. You will have good communication and organisational skills and the ability to work with minimal supervision and on your own initiative to achieve deadlines.

Person specification

Qualifcations Education & Training

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Secondary Level with GCSE maths and English level 2 or above
  • Extensive experience of working in an office environment
  • NVQ3/RSA3 or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in healthcare/education setting
  • Knowledge of healthcare terms used in their day to day working
  • ECDL qualification

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Essential criteria
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills in person, on telephone, and electronically.
  • To be experienced in dealing with people in distress in a calm and confident manner, using deescalation skills where appropriate
  • To have proven skills and experience establishing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders

ANALYTICAL SKILLS

Essential criteria
  • Problem solving, decision making and analytical skills.
  • Ability to analyse data and compile information for reports

Previous Experience, Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload
  • Proficiency in diary management and coordinating appointments
  • Experience of writing formal minutes
  • Independent, lone and team working skills
  • Evidence of ability to be flexible and show initiative, sensitivity and enthusiasm to work
  • Evidence of the ability to organise and plan complex events
  • Evidence of supervising/training others
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of adapting to, and managing, change
  • Evidence of creating new processes or documents to assist team set up or functionality

Diversity

Essential criteria
  • Show respect and treat people with dignity

Physical/Mental/Emotional Effort

Essential criteria
  • Ability to cope with multiple tasks, tight deadlines and competing demands
  • Emotional Maturity

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible Working

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
[email protected]
Job title
Senior Administrator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812 785164
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