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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Runcorn is seeking a part-time Administrative Assistant to support the Halton Later Life and Memory Service at the Brooker Centre, Halton Hospital. You will be part of an admin team assisting a clinical service and reception area, handling calls, referrals, and appointment scheduling.

The role emphasizes flexible, cross-site support and efficient clerical delivery across the locality, with duties including reception cover, scanning, photocopying, and

Qualifications

• The role is administrative in nature, requiring strong clerical skills.
• Experience with reception duties and handling calls is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the team and to reception areas.
• Answer telephone calls, photocopy, scan, upload referrals and book appointments.
• Support cross-site administrative activities to ensure continuous service delivery.

Job description

Administration Assistant | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking to recruit a part-time Administrative Assistant for Halton Later Life and Memory Service, Brooker Centre, Halton Hospital, Runcorn. This post will be part of an admin team who will support a clinical team and reception area.

This post is aligned to an administrative hub model and provides flexible, cross-site support to ensure continuity of service delivery. The post holder will routinely be required to work within the LLAMs Department. However, may be require to cross-cover to provide administrative support during periods of planned and unplanned leave. This approach ensures resilience across the service, maintains consistent administrative provision, and supports the effective management of patient pathways and core administrative functions across the locality.

To provide an efficient and effective clerical service to the multi-disciplinary team.

The role will include providing administrative support to the team and will include, supporting reception areas, answering telephone calls into the Service, photocopying, scanning, uploaded referrals and making appointments.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities