CAMHS Team Administrator

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking an administrative professional to provide clerical support within their team. The role focuses on managing databases, supporting clinical teams, and ensuring smooth admissions and transfers. Candidates should be proficient in Microsoft Office, with experience in electronic patient records being a plus. The environment is supportive with opportunities for career development. This position is administrative only and holds no clinical responsibilities.

Benefits

Career development and training opportunities

Supportive and friendly workplace environment

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications is essential.
• Experience with systems like System One is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality clerical support to the Collingham team.
• Manage Excel databases and clinical systems.
• Assist with clinical audit and monitoring.
• Coordinate non-clinical ward processes and maintain accurate records.

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office suite

Experience with electronic patient record systems

Job description

Overview

Collingham CAMHS is a CNWL NHS inpatient care team providing mental and emotional health services to children under the age of 13 and their families and carers.

We are a team of specialist clinicians, therapists and nurses. We provide specialist services to those who are experiencing and need help with thoughts, feelings, difficult experiences, emotional, relationship and behavioural difficulties in family life, school or the wider world. These include bullying, eating difficulties, family issues, anger, sadness, worry, finding it hard to concentrate or sit still, trouble with friends, unusual thoughts and more.

Responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for providing efficient and high‑quality clerical support to Collingham Child and Family Centre. This will require processing all referrals and supporting the clinical, nursing and multidisciplinary teams in delivering safe, compassionate care to children and adolescents and working with families/carers.

Managing the Excel databases, clinical systems and assisting with clinical audit and monitoring is an important part of this role. The role will also include acting as a key coordinator of non‑clinical ward processes, ensuring efficient flow of information, accurate records, timely correspondence and smooth management of admissions, discharges, leave and transfers. The postholder plays a key role in maintaining robust record management, supporting safeguarding procedures, and coordinating responses to information requests, including SARs.

Part of your role will be assisting the Consultant Psychiatrist with clerical and managerial duties. This will involve a high level of discretion and confidentiality as you will come into contact with sensitive patient and staff data and information.

This post is administrative only and has no clinical responsibility.

Eligibility & Sponsorship

This vacancy does not meet the criteria for Skilled Worker sponsorship, unless you meet the criteria for temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and held continuously Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024.

As such, if you don’t meet the Transitional Provision we are unable to consider your application unless you can provide documentary evidence of your right to work in the United Kingdom. If you believe you are eligible for sponsorship or already hold a valid right to work in the UK, please ensure you provide full details of your immigration status in the pre‑screening immigration section of your application form.

Please note that role eligibility also depends on whether the role meets the salary threshold for the relevant occupational code (SOC CODE).

For further info please visit: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

Qualifications & Skills

The successful applicant will be proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office suite of programmes, and previous experience of an electronic patient record system like System One would be advantageous.

Benefits

CNWL are committed to progressing and supporting their staff with career development and training, and ensuring staff health and well‑being and job satisfaction.

We offer a supportive and friendly environment, where supervision and performance reviews/appraisals form part of our ongoing development of staff.

This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Jan 2026.