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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Contact
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
Administration Manager (Urgent Care Pathway)
Accepting applications until: 12-Mar-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 12-Mar-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Manzil Resource Centre
- Cyfeiriad
- Manzil Way
- Tref
- Oxford
- Cod post
- OX4 1XE
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £31,049 - £37,796 Per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 5)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Administration
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
To provide management and leadership to the reception/administration team and ensure that the administration team runs in a polite, efficient and safe way with the patient as the focus.
The post holder will also ensure that the team has appropriate administration support.
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To provide an efficient and effective comprehensive administrative support to the team/service.To manage the admin team across the Urgent Care Pathway. Ensuring support and development for the
team, including completion of timely appraisals and managerial supervision.
Provide a polite and efficient reception service to visitors, patients and families, if required.
To provide administrative support to the team ensuring that there are effective administrative systems
and procedures in operation.
To ensure that high standards of data quality are maintained and pull data reports as required, for the team.
Suggest and make recommendations for improvement to existing administration procedures.
To provide secretarial support to senior members of the team, utilising a high level of IT skills to produce
quality documentation to support the work of the team using the appropriate Microsoft software and adopting the Trust’s corporate standards and style.
To respond to email, telephone enquiries and written enquiries using a high level of initiative and
responding in a confidential and sensitive way and action in the appropriate way.
To work with managers within Operational Services and IT to maintain data quality and make improvements to data collection where necessary.
To ensure that the Trust’s databases are up to date and all clinical data is entered appropriately.
Assist in the induction of new staff, including organising local staff induction days and booking onto
corporate inductions.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
To provide an efficient and effective comprehensive administrative support to the team/service.
2. To manage the admin team across the Urgent Care Pathway. Ensuring support and development for the
team, including completion of timely appraisals and managerial supervision.
3. To effectively line manage the team of administrators, including management of annual leave and
sickness cover, any HR processes and recruitment within the admin team.
4. Provide a polite and efficient reception service to visitors, patients and families, if required.
5. To provide administrative support to the team ensuring that there are effective administrative systems
and procedures in operation.
6. To ensure that high standards of data quality are maintained and pull data reports as required, for the
team.
7. Suggest and make recommendations for improvement to existing administration procedures.
8. To provide and coordinate administrative support for meetings as requested and to ensure follow up
action is completed, including producing and distributing notes of meetings, setting up meetings,
preparing agendas, ensuring that a system is maintained to ensure correspondence/information is
available for meetings.
9. To maintain diaries and records for managers as needed, including arranging meetings, preparing papers
and minute meetings where necessary. This includes organising meetings, coordinating the diaries of
team members and providing administrative support as required.
10. To provide secretarial support to senior members of the team, utilising a high level of IT skills to produce
quality documentation to support the work of the team using the appropriate Microsoft software and
adopting the Trust’s corporate standards and style.
11. To respond to email, telephone enquiries and written enquiries using a high level of initiative and
responding in a confidential and sensitive way and action in the appropriate way.
12. To communicate confidential and sensitive information on patients and policy issues, and complex
information on directorate issues to external agencies.
13. To accurately update computerised patient records, as required.
14. To work with managers within Operational Services and IT to maintain data quality and make
improvements to data collection where necessary.
15. To ensure that the Trust’s databases are up to date and all clinical data is entered appropriately.
16. To collate staff records regarding training, annual leave and sickness leave etc.
17. To oversee the ordering of team stationery through e-Procurement and manage team’s petty cash. To be
responsible for raising and coding invoices under delegated responsibilities on both SharePoint and e-
Procurement systems.
18. To supervise admin/reception team, supporting the recruitment process as required.
19. To provide mentorship, administrative process and procedural guidance to administrative staff across the
pathway.
20. Assist in the induction of new staff, including organising local staff induction days and booking onto
corporate inductions.
21. Support the clinical team with roster building, managing roster requests, putting bank and agency shifts
out and maintaining safe numbers of staffing on the ward via the roster.
22. Manage any administration related complaints or concerns, speaking with patients and/or families and
creating appropriate action plans with any learning from these.
23. To be a central point of communication for the Leadership team and carry out ad hoc tasks as requested.
24. To support the Team Manager with building management, liaising with the Estates department in relation
to risk, security, essential repairs and maintenance and planned works.
Please note:
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Further Training or Job- Related Aptitude and Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to liaise with all professionals and levels in a confident and effective manner.
- Ability to manage and prioritise own workload
- Ability to produce good quality correspondence and reports.
- Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise a heavy workload, always ensuring attention to detail
Meini prawf dymunol
- Ability to work effectively under pressure/with distractions.
- Ability to draft and compile reports.
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of working in a supervisory and/or leadership role.
- Experience of working with patients with mental health issues and/or challenging behaviour.
- Experience of using Microsoft Office computer programs, including Excel, Word, MS Teams and Outlook.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working in a management role.
- Experience of working in a healthcare environment.
Personal Qualities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Able to communicate with staff across all levels of the organisation.
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Motivation, commitment and patient centred care values.
- Understanding of the need for confidentiality.
Knowledge Requirements
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Knowledge of project management or information analysis and interpretation.
- Working knowledge of email systems and electronic health records.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Working knowledge of email systems and electronic health records.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Apache Balman
- Teitl y swydd
- Business & Pathway Improvement Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01865 223030
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