Veterans Service Administrator job at London Full Time NEW

If you are looking for a new and exciting opportunity, have good administrative and ICT skills and experience and are not afraid of working in a fast-paced environment, you are exactly who we are looking for.

An opportunity has come up for an Administrator within the NHS Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service.

An element of this service is to provide an outreach and screening service for Afghan refugees who are veterans, have served in the military police, worked as interpreters within these services or in other roles alongside the British Army or Government, many of whom will have experienced trauma.

NB: It is a role requirement that the successful applicant can speak Dari and/or Pashto.

The post-holder will support the management of the administrative function within the Op COURAGE Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service in order to provide an efficient and effective service.

This includes a high level of prioritising and organisational skills to ensure administration targets are met. This to include swift and accurate administrative processing of referrals into the Service, co-ordination with triaging clinicians, and liaison with patients, referrers, services including GP, as well as the significant others of patients.

You must be experienced, dedicated, reliable, proactive, and a flexible individual who is assertive and take the initiative in anticipating the needs of their teams.

You should be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team. You should be able to demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills.

It is essential that you have experience in minute-taking and using Excel to intermediate level, along with good attention to detail.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Please refer to main duties of the job/ attached documents or please contact us on the email below where we would be happy to discuss in further detail.

Please ensure you read the attached Job Description and Person Specification to ensure you meet the criteria.

This role involves working with refugees from Afghanistan. It is a role requirement that the successful applicant can speak Dari and/or Pashto.