NHS

Receptionist


PayCompetitive
LocationBeckenham/England
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: C9277-24-0989?language=en&page=7&sort=publicationDateDesc

      Job summary

      To provide an efficient and comprehensive service supporting the multi-disciplinary

      Bromley Mental Health Hub team. The role will include the welcoming and directing of all visitors to the appropriate personnel, manning a busy switchboard and ensuring outpatient clinics run smoothly.

      Liaising with external agencies as required.

      Main duties of the job

      Receive all visitors to the Bromley Mental Health Hub at Rachel Knotley in a courteous manner, ensuring that they are directed to the relevant personnel in an efficient and timely manner.

      About us

      Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

      Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

      • We're Kind
      • We're Fair
      • We Listen
      • We Care

      Date posted

      24 June 2024

      Pay scheme

      Agenda for change

      Band

      Band 2

      Salary

      £26,696 a year pa inc

      Contract

      Permanent

      Working pattern

      Full-time

      Reference number

      277-6400988-CMH

      Job locations

      Beckenham Beacon

      379 Croydon Road

      Beckenham

      BR3 3QL


      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      • Respond to incoming calls and deal with enquiries in accordance with management procedures. Record all messages accurately ensuring appropriate action is taken and messages passed to the relevant discipline/clinician. Use initiative in finding appropriate clinician for advice if required staff member is absent.
      • Responsibility for retrieval of messages left on the Teams answer phone out of hours ensuring that such messages are directed to the relevant personnel.
      • Summoning of relevant emergency services to the Locality Mental Health Team as and when need arises.
      • Receiving all incoming post to the Locality Mental Health Team and distribute/disseminate as necessary.
      • Receiving emails sent to the Locality Mental Health Team ensuring that these are directed to relevant personnel in a timely and efficient manner.
      • Issuing via reception any documentation for service users, as instructed by clinicians.
      • Daily liaising with Couriers ensuring that all post/medication is collected from the Locality Mental Health Team.
      • Implementing and maintaining effective communication systems with team, locality, acute in-patient staff, GPs and clients.
      • Keeping movement chart on all staff updated throughout the day, as and when the need arises, including receiving update information from clinicians.
      • Using current Trust electronic system to record and retrieve information on both service users and caseload holders.
      • Manual recording (for future electronic input) of all arrival/seen/departure times of service users who are being seen by a medic ensuring that this information is accurate and complete.
      • Manage and coordinate all room bookings.
      • Booking of future appointments / reviews ensuring that necessary personnel are included in the appointment, all data work linked to appointment completed and any documentation issued as necessary.
      • Printing of clinics list and collation of all the necessary information in readiness for the forthcoming weeks outpatient clinics to be held by the medics.
      • Scanning of incoming documentation, ensuring that the scanned image is an exact duplicate of the original. Captured image to be uploaded onto the Trusts current electronic system and onto the correct service users electronic record, and original documentation shredded.
      • Undertaking administrative duties photocopying.
      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      • Respond to incoming calls and deal with enquiries in accordance with management procedures. Record all messages accurately ensuring appropriate action is taken and messages passed to the relevant discipline/clinician. Use initiative in finding appropriate clinician for advice if required staff member is absent.
      • Responsibility for retrieval of messages left on the Teams answer phone out of hours ensuring that such messages are directed to the relevant personnel.
      • Summoning of relevant emergency services to the Locality Mental Health Team as and when need arises.
      • Receiving all incoming post to the Locality Mental Health Team and distribute/disseminate as necessary.
      • Receiving emails sent to the Locality Mental Health Team ensuring that these are directed to relevant personnel in a timely and efficient manner.
      • Issuing via reception any documentation for service users, as instructed by clinicians.
      • Daily liaising with Couriers ensuring that all post/medication is collected from the Locality Mental Health Team.
      • Implementing and maintaining effective communication systems with team, locality, acute in-patient staff, GPs and clients.
      • Keeping movement chart on all staff updated throughout the day, as and when the need arises, including receiving update information from clinicians.
      • Using current Trust electronic system to record and retrieve information on both service users and caseload holders.
      • Manual recording (for future electronic input) of all arrival/seen/departure times of service users who are being seen by a medic ensuring that this information is accurate and complete.
      • Manage and coordinate all room bookings.
      • Booking of future appointments / reviews ensuring that necessary personnel are included in the appointment, all data work linked to appointment completed and any documentation issued as necessary.
      • Printing of clinics list and collation of all the necessary information in readiness for the forthcoming weeks outpatient clinics to be held by the medics.
      • Scanning of incoming documentation, ensuring that the scanned image is an exact duplicate of the original. Captured image to be uploaded onto the Trusts current electronic system and onto the correct service users electronic record, and original documentation shredded.
      • Undertaking administrative duties photocopying.

      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • GCSE Maths & English A-C

      Desirable

      • NVQ or Equivalent

      Experience

      Essential

      • 3+ Years working in a NHS Setting.

      Experience

      Essential

      • Secreterial Admin Experience

      Desirable

      • Receptionist Experience
      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • GCSE Maths & English A-C

      Desirable

      • NVQ or Equivalent

      Experience

      Essential

      • 3+ Years working in a NHS Setting.

      Experience

      Essential

      • Secreterial Admin Experience

      Desirable

      • Receptionist Experience

      Disclosure and Barring Service Check

      This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

      Certificate of Sponsorship

      Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

      From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

      Additional information

      Certificate of Sponsorship

      Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

      From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

      Address

      Beckenham Beacon

      379 Croydon Road

      Beckenham

      BR3 3QL


      Employer's website

      http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

      Address

      Beckenham Beacon

      379 Croydon Road

      Beckenham

      BR3 3QL


      Employer's website

      http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  • About the company

      National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.