Become a Lead Administrator with purpose, where your contribution is part of helping to change people's lives. It's an administration role that's rewarding like no other. Join the team at The Spinney as a Lead Administrator and be valued and supported.

You will be working 37.5 hours per week 

The aim of this role is to direct and control the operational service of the administration function, to ensure that it provides a cost-effective Reception, Secretarial, Medical Records and all other appropriate administration service to the units. 

You will support and supervise the service's administration needs, including supervising the reception service, providing a secretarial service to designated managers and departments, supervising the Mental Health Act department and coordinating the functioning and staffing of all administration areas including secretarial, MHA, CPA, Resourcing, Human Resources, Finance, Ward Administration, Complaints and Visitor Liaison.

Working alongside senior staff members, you will manage staff absences and leave requests, maintain personnel files, and produce audits. 

At Elysium, we want the best for you. That's why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That's what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As a Lead Administrator you will be:
• Supervising the reception service, ensuring the provision of a high quality customer focussed Service to patients and their relatives, staff and external organisations.Ensuring Doors, Traka, Blicks, Key and CCTV Systems are working throughout the unit and comply at all times with Elysium Healthcare Policies.
• Supervising the secretarial service, ensuring the provision of a confidential, high quality Support service to both the clinical and support service departments.
• Monitoring and reviewing the quality of service delivery, taking corrective action where necessary.
• Controlling the department's expenditure to ensure that it does not exceed annual budgetary provisions.
• Managing internal and external postal systems

To be successful in this role, you will have:
• Secretarial and/or HR Administration experience
• NVQ III Business Administration
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Word Processing skills (50 wpm) preferably Microsoft Word
• Experience of Powerpoint and Excel packages
• Supervisory skills
• Knowledge of a range of office equipment, photocopier and telephone systems

Where you will be working:

Location: Everest Road, Atherton, Manchester, M46 9NT 

You will be working at The Spinney, a service which offer a range of care settings for male patients with personality disorder and/or mental illness. The purpose-built medium, low secure and rehabilitation wards, as well as a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) are all set within an 11 acre site with extensive woodland and landscaped areas. 

You will be working alongside a multidisciplinary team at The Spinney who have previously been recognised by the Association of Psychological Therapies (APT) for their ability to reinforce positive behaviour, prevention of challenging behaviour and successful interventions in a secure care setting. 

What you will get:
• Annual salary of £ £32,924
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) - plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.