Social Care Business Administrator

Our Social Care Business Administrator will provide high-quality administrative support to the day-to-day operations of the Adult Mental Health Social Care Team and to its management and senior leadership team.

You Will Be Expected To Provide Efficient Administrative Support To Underpin Adult Social Care Processes Within Torbay And South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. This Can Include But Is Not Limited To

• Managing HR matters such as annual leave, sickness absence, and attendance sheets.
• General administrative tasks for the team leads, social workers and community care workers such as typing and sending letters, printing and ordering equipment.
• Minute-taking for team meetings and for important statutory meetings such as safeguarding or best interests’ meetings.
• Creation of an on-going duty rota for the team and creation and maintenance of shared electronic folders
• Supporting the referral co-ordinator at times and vice-versa.
  
  

The administration support to the management and the senior leadership team will include arranging multi-agency meetings, screening calls and emails, assisting with the preparation of reports or presentations to deadline, and creating meeting agendas and minutes.

You will be required to liaise with social workers and other clinicians, private and third sector providers as well as service users and carers, when necessary, to communicate and gather information.

You will be expected to prioritise and manage your own workload under the line management of the Social Work Lead. The post holder will receive professional supervision from the Referral Co-ordinator who is a Band 4

You will be working within the Under 65 Mental Health Social Care team.

• The U65MH Social Care team aims to ensure robust assessment, support and review of clients with severe and enduring mental health problems who require social care input.

The team work to maximise the independence of all clients through providing personalised and proportionate assessment of their social care needs.

Working closely with the local CMHTs and community voluntary sector the team aim to provide a strength-based approach to all their work.

The team is committed to high quality provision and delivery of social care statutory interventions

This post is professionally supervised by the Referral Coordinator within the team, who will provide support, appraisal and monthly supervision.

The post holder is ultimately accountable to, and line managed by one of the two social work leads within the team.

The team is committed to high quality provision and delivery of social care statutory interventions.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lidia Guagliumi Job title: Team Manager Email address: lidia.guagliumi@nhs.net Telephone number: 07780 225 637