Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent: Full Time - Office Based Role
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (None)
- Job ref
- 325-5982801-CORP-A
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 18, Mole Business Park
- Town
- Surrey
- Salary
- £26,405 - £28,976 None
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Act Administrator
NHS AfC: Band 4
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
You will be supporting the MHA administration. This means ensuring the administration of the MHA is delivered effectively and efficiently working as a team to support our frontline clinical services. To assist with the Trust procedures implementing the Mental Health Act in accordance with agreed procedures, with minimal supervision.
Main duties of the job
To assist with our Trust procedures implementing the Mental Health Act in accordance with agreed procedures, with minimal supervision.
To ensure that detained patients, and where appropriate their nearest relative, are advised of their statutory rights under the Mental Health Act.
To liaise with external organisations and agencies (e.g. Care Quality Commission, Tribunal Service, Solicitors, Social Services, Police, Courts etc) in connection with the remit of the MHA Department.
To liaise with external organisations and agencies (e.g. Care Quality Commission, Tribunal Service, Solicitors, Social Services, Police, Courts etc) in connection with the remit of the MHA Department.
To make arrangements for patient appeals and Review of Detention for both Community Treatment Order patients and inpatients, eg, CTO and Section 3/37 by external statutory bodies, ensuring all the legal documentation is available within the statutory time frames.
Drafting correspondence, file notes and other material, such as office protocol instructions, as required by the MHA Co-ordinator.
To assist with general administrative duties, this will include handling sensitive material.
The access and use of a car is vital. This role involves visiting and working at various locations across the Trust. The post holder is required to hold a clean driving license.
To adhere to the requirements of strict confidentiality in relation to the work of the Trust and people who use our services.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Administrative qualification that demonstrates competence in systems and processes
- Legal or MHA administrative qualification or equivalent experience or knowledge of MHA.
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and associated legislation
- • Experience in working at all levels across an organisation
- • Experience of writing specialist policies and procedures
- • Experience of working with people with mental health and learning disabilities
- • Experience of working with partner agencies including Care Quality Commission, Home Office, Courts and Police
- • Experience of working with the Data Protection Act and Caldicott guidelines
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience in MHA administration across a variety of services.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sharon Green
- Job title
- Mental Health Act Co-Ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01372216180
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