Locality Administrator

Job overview

The Wokingham Community Older Adult Mental Health Service is looking for an enthusiastic, friendly professional and highly motivated Locality Administrator to join our friendly and innovative team.

Your base would be Wokingham Community Hospital where we have access to free parking, staff room and a friendly and welcoming team. This role is primarily office based, however there may be opportunities for one day remote working in line with service needs.

Main duties of the job

Duties will include, organising clinics and home visits, entering and updating information on the patient information database as well as a range of shared administrative tasks including supporting the service to run smoothly and being the front door to our patients and carers. There is an expectation that you will provide secretarial support and associated administrative tasks to the consultant psychiatrists during periods of sickness / annual leave / and to meet service needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:

• Have previous knowledge and experience of working in a busy office and/or customer care environment, undertaking a full range of administrative duties.

• You must be enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated to contribute towards maintaining standards of high-quality care to our patients.

• Have excellent interpersonal skills.

• Be proactive and work well as part of a team.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Clare Bailey (Service Manager) on  0118 904 7200 or email: [email protected]  who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.