Ward Based Clinical Administrator - Birmingham

Here is a role that will make the most of your administrative talents – and help us to transform the lives of people with mental health issues.

Ward Based Clinical Administrator

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £23,295 - £26,000 depending on experience

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Take the next step in your administration career by joining our team in Birmingham to help us deliver world-class care at our purpose-built service, where we care for working age men and women with mental illness in a range of medium, low-secure, and pre-discharge units. This is an exciting time to join the team. Rated as a ‘Good’ healthcare provider by the CQC, the hospital is next striving to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating, reflecting the specialism, expertise, and standards of care we provide.

Working at St Andrew’s Healthcare

We are the UK’s largest independent provider of NHS services, a unique mental health charity aspiring to deliver truly world-class care. Our focus is transforming lives through ground-breaking treatment and rehabilitation. You will find a welcoming, inclusive culture here, inspired by the shared values of our teams. Everyone has their part to play in the amazing work we do – you will have every opportunity to get what you want from your career.

Your role with us

You will be based on the hospital site, and your role will focus on supporting the day-to-day activity of the Wards, the Ward Managers and Responsible Clinicians. By keeping the administration processes running smoothly, you’ll be helping our nursing and clinical teams to focus on providing great care. It will be important to build good working relationships while ensuring there is effective communication across the ward.

It’s a varied and demanding job, and you will be comfortable working in a busy ward setting. Duties include managing diaries and supporting ward meetings, ward rounds, clinical governance meetings, including minute taking. You will also take care of tasks like document creation, data input, record management and a range of general administration.

You can continue building your skills, alongside your experience, through the many training and development opportunities on offer.

Your profile

• You will be a confident communicator and a proactive member of our administration team, willing to provide cross cover to other team members when needed.
• You will have significant administration experience and be proficient in the use of MS Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel). Strong all round administration and organisational skills are essential.
• You will have a proven ability to produce high quality, professional documents, with intermediate/ advanced keyboard skills.
• You will have previous experience in, and be confident with taking and transcribing minutes of meetings, audio typing and be able to work collaboratively or on your own initiative with a strong customer focus.
• You will have a flexible working style, with the ability to working effectively in a team and independently.

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 41 after 10 years' service; Life cover; Our newly launched Electric Car scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.