Team Administrator

Job Summary

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the East Surrey Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities as a team administrator. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to organise and carry out your work within clear time frames.

• Provide office administrative duties for a multi-disciplinary Community Learning Disability Team including face‑to‑face contact with the public; people who use our services and their families and carers; medical staff; and other agencies. Reception duties are undertaken when necessary.
• Undertake admin duties including preparing letters to GPs/other health care professionals to support the clinical team, and support the recording of referrals into the team and the associated admin.
• Respond to telephone enquiries and team email messages and transmit to team members according to priorities; maintaining a helpful and courteous manner at all times.

Applicants will need to be able to communicate effectively and enjoy working as part of a team but be able to work independently as required. They should have a high level of database and word‑processing skills, a good working knowledge of secretarial processes and be very organised. Previous experience of electronic patient record systems is desirable.

As a successful candidate you must be able to work in a busy office and manage workload despite regular interruptions. The post will include working closely with the Office Manager, Service Manager, professional leads and clinicians who make up the team.

The East Surrey CTPLD has two bases:
Gatton Place – Redhill and 18 Mole Business Park – Leatherhead; work across both bases is expected. As a flexible‑working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill‑health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental well‑being of the local population, working closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.