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Job summary

Main area
Administration
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (12 month FTC)
Hours
Part time - 15 hours per week (Wednesday and either a Monday or Friday (9am-5pm))
Job ref
277-7605311-CHAN-A
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
HMP Channings Wood
Town
Newton Abbot
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/01/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust logo

Administrator

Band 3

Job overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? 

This is an excellent opportunity for an Administrator to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

Part-time - 15 hours per week, Wednesday and either a Monday or Friday (9am-5pm)

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

As an Administrator within our healthcare team, you will be responsible for providing an integrated comprehensive secretarial and administrative support service to the integrated health care services. 

Key duties include:

·       Undertaking copy/audio typing and word processing support to the team for the provision of required client related reports, letters, discharge summaries etc, including legal documentation, whilst prioritising work-load and meeting Exeter deadlines. 

·       Dealing with incoming correspondence on a daily basis, distributing and taking appropriate action as necessary and ensuring urgent items are brought to the attention of a member of the team. 

·       Preparing and presenting any statistical returns as necessary. 

·       Undertake any administrative procedures required to support the team, e.g. arrange medical staff & practitioner rota’s organise meetings. 

·       Implementing and maintaining effective client filing systems, ensuring client records are safe, confidential, up to date and accessible.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We’re Kind
  • We’re Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·       Undertaking copy/audio typing and word processing support to the team for the provision of required client related reports, letters, discharge summaries etc, including legal documentation, whilst prioritising work-load and meeting Exeter deadlines. 

·       Dealing with incoming correspondence on a daily basis, distributing and taking appropriate action as necessary and ensuring urgent items are brought to the attention of a member of the team. 

·       Preparing and presenting any statistical returns as necessary.

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: 

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.  

 

You will need to provide: 

 

Proof of right to work documentation 

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID 

Proof of address documentation 

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.  

 

Address History: 

 

5 years address history will be needed. 

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. 

 

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.  

 

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants 

 

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website ( http://www.fco.gov.uk/en). 

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GCSE Level English Language or equivalent
  • RSA or NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous administrative/secretarial experience
  • Touch typing/audio typing
  • Dealing with a wide range of people
Desirable criteria
  • NHS experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Packages
  • Able to Produce Reports of a High Standard
Desirable criteria
  • SystemOne experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthPride In Veterans

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ann Woolway
Job title
Head of Healthcare
Email address
[email protected]
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