Join our dedicated team at HMP Chelmsford, committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for incarcerated individuals. We are currently seeking a skilled and organized Administrator to support the administrative functions within the prison facility.
As a Safeguarding Link at HMP Chelmsford, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the efficient operation of administrative processes within the prison. This position requires a detail-oriented and proactive individual who can manage various administrative tasks effectively.
Please note that there is no parking available on site but there are car parks located within walking distance.
Package DescriptionAs a Safeguarding Link, you’ll be part of our valued team:
Competitive salary of £23,887.50 per year depending on experience with group pension
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Main Responsibilities
Management of the internal clinics, booking appointments, liaising with clinicians to schedule clinic dates.
Booking of external hospital appointments for patients that have been referred to secondary care.
Requesting medical information from patient’s community GP’s and ensuring we obtain this information within a specific time frame so that we are able to continue care.
Providing medical records following GDPR.
General Admin duties (scanning, copy, filling, creating letters etc.
Receive and appropriately code safeguarding information/requests etc – training provided.
Please see the job description attached for more responsibilities.
The Ideal CandidatePerson Specification
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Ability to build and develop relationships
Essential Experience / Qualifications
Experience in the use of Excel, Word and PowerPoint
All candidates are subject to prison vetting checks
Previous Admin experience or working within a healthcare environment is beneficial
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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