Team Administrator

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities

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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust (SHFT) is committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect. As an employee, you are accountable to ensure that you know to how to respond when you are concerned for the safety of a child, young person or adult at risk, applying the principles of the Family Approach to ensure evidence based analysis, risk management and appropriate action and escalation. SHFT require staff to work effectively together using the Family Approach to achieve better outcomes for adults, children and families. The Trust will support you in this duty by providing ongoing training, support and advice and have a Corporate Safeguarding Team who can be contacted for guidance and the provision of safeguarding supervision.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Southern Health Foundation Trust (SHFT) to appoint an efficient and motivated Team Administrator to work within our 0-19 Children and Family Services team based at Alpha Court in Fareham. You will be joining a leading organisation that is both forward thinking and innovative. SHFT is committed to improving the quality of child health services across Hampshire and takes pride in rewarding the success of its staff.

The Team Administrator is integral to providing comprehensive administrative support to the clinicians who support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to children, young people and families living within Hampshire.

The Team Administrator will work in collaboration with the clinical and non-clinical team members within the School Nursing team and will have responsibility for managing the administrative processes relating to child protection invitations, referrals, and transfers in and out of the team using the Open RiO electronic patient system, in accordance with standard operating procedures.

With a positive approach to customer care, you will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, prioritise your workload and manage your time efficiently.

Applicants must have excellent IT skills and be prepared to work in other bases when necessary.

Due to the nature of the post it is expected that you will have access to a car, a full driving licence and insurance for business use.

A DBS check is required by the Employer for this post. The Employer will undertake an initial check at the appropriate level on appointment. As a condition of employment you are required to register with the online DBS update service and maintain this registration throughout employment.

COVID-19 vaccine remains the best way to protect ourselves, our families, our colleagues, and patients from the virus, we therefore encourage applicants to become fully vaccinated. We ask for vaccination status as part of pre employment checks although COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment.