Location: Exeter, EX2 5SN
Salary: £24938.00 to £26958.00
Date posted: 22nd May 2025
Closing date: 8th June 2025
Ward Administrator
Job Description:
An exciting administration opportunity has arisen to work within Coombehaven Ward at The Cedars. Coombehaven is a 16 bedded Adult Acute Inpatient ward providing recovery focused and compassionate care.
This is a hugely rewarding and unique administration role which will give you an excellent insight into adult mental health conditions and the range of therapies and interventions that we offer. It will also provide you with lifelong skills in dealing with challenging situations and people from diverse backgrounds as well as the ability to work in an ever changing environment where you can contribute to positive changes in the NHS and society as a whole.
Supporting our patients on their path to recovery, whatever this might look like for them, provides our staff with a huge sense of pride and joy. You will also feel great satisfaction from providing our clinicians with an excellent administration service which makes their job easier and enables them to spend more time with our patients. You will be supported to reach your full potential, with opportunities for continuing development, training and career progression into a wide range of administrative, management and/or clinical roles depending on your area of interest.
Please not that this vacacny does not meet the requirement for certificate of sponsorship.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder's role will be to work in partnership with the Ward Manager and MDT as Ward Administrator in the team ensuring high quality administrative support that will enable the provision of the best possible care to service-users.
This role is interesting and varied, some of the main duties include:
- Provide support to Ward Manager and MDT
- Minute taking of MDTs, business meetings and adhoc professional meetings
- Amending and updating staff rotas (Health Roster)
- Ordering of supplies
- Uploading of patient records
- Uploading to staff files
- Petty cash
- Producing packs for patients
If this appeals to you and you have the relevant transferrable skills, administration experience, and you are also highly motivated to perform to a high standard and provide an excellent service then please do not hesitate to APPLY. Please contact me if you would like to know more about the role before you apply as this enables us to explore whether the role aligns with your skills, goals, values and experience.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health & learning disability services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
Our values
We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviours which underpin the core values of our organisation. These values include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health & learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Employer.
Contact information:
Business Administration Coordinator
Georgia Atkins
