Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
Are you organised, friendly and thrive in a team environment? Are you looking for a role where you'll be supported by welcoming colleagues and have a chance to make a real impact? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
Our Secure Services Central Team are looking for a dedicated and organised administrator to join our administrative team working 30 hours per week.
The role will have primary responsibility for our Cash Office provision, so an understanding of accounting procedures (reconciliation and balances etc.) would be desirable but full training will be given. The role will also involve contributing to the administrative support to our clinical and medical teams, forming an integral part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to our Service Users.
This role is an excellent opportunity to gain experience within the NHS, providing administrative support to our Forensic Community team and includes tasks like:
- Maintaining records and managing requests for money from staff and patients
- Ensuring our accounting system balances
- Uploading expenditure/income to our banking system
- maintaining and uploading up to date information to the patient record
- typing correspondence and reports
- preparing agendas and taking minutes at team meetings
- managing incoming email and telephone queries.
Please note that full training will be provided to the successful candidate.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
This role requires a confident communicator with good interpersonal skills, a learning mindset and a good attention to detail. You should be committed to supporting the care and wellbeing of our Service users through ensuring a high standard of work within a busy service.
As well as having a good standard of education, you must possess excellent time management skills, a positive approach to responding to changing priorities and delivering accurate work within tight deadlines. The ability to work within a team while using initiative to prioritise your own workload is required, as is the capacity to be flexible.
Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
YOUR APPLICATION
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
This post may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
