Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NCL-7285403-TA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southwark Community Forensic Service - Marina House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Team Administrator Southwark Forensic
NHS AfC: Band 4
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The Southwark Community Forensic service is seeking to recruit a Senior Team Administrator to provide a comprehensive admin and secretarial service for the team.
Main duties of the job
As well as undertaking secretarial duties, the post-holder will co-ordinate the administrative work of the clinical team and liaise with health care professionals and other external agencies, whilst acting as the first point of contact for the service. We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised, motivated and committed individual who will have experience networking and communicating with a large team. An excellent typing ability and high-level communication skills are essential.
Working for our organisation
The post is full-time, and you would be working in a highly-motivated community multi-disciplinary team base. There will be opportunities and support for continuing professional development and opportunity to participate in quality innovations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will need to meet the criteria detailed in the person specification, as well as having proven organisational skills, and the ability to prioritise an interesting and varied workload.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Secretarial qualification or demonstrable experience
- Good standard of general education including English and Mathematics
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in the NHS
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous secretarial / PA experience
- Taking minutes at meetings
- Audio / copy typing
- Working to tight deadlines
- Team working
- Handling confidential information
- Developing and implementing administrative systems
- Supporting data collection
- Diary management
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in a mental health setting
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- Good written communication
- Good verbal communication
- Ability to liaise and work with all levels of staff
- Able to use your own initiative and work unsupervised
- Flexibility
- Tact / diplomacy
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of the electronic Patient Journey System (ePJS)
- Knowledge of the criminal justice system
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr Judah Raffington
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead - Community Forensics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07791353261
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