The closing date is 29 July 2026
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year per annum
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Admin Team. We are looking for an enthusiastic motivated person with excellent communication and organisational skills to work on both the female and male wards, which are all 18-bedded.
In addition to regular admin duties, this role will be crucial in delivering very high standards of record-keeping including auditing of clinical records, weekly environmental checks, and taking patient photos for medication charts and the ordering of linen. This post will also offer admin support in terms of holiday/sickness cover for main reception and cover for the Wards Clerks.
The successful candidate must have a good standard of secondary education, a good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook, a good understanding of confidentiality.
We are building a new hospital in Bexhill to replace our inpatient services. This means that, if you are successful in your application, you will be asked to transfer to the new facilities when it opens. The temporary base until the new Hospital opens will be at the Dept of Psychiatry, Eastbourne DGH, Kings Drive, Eastbourne.
Working hours are Monday to Friday 08.00 – 16.00 – 37 1/2 hours per week
Job description
You must be able to provide a comprehensive range of admin support to the nursing managers and team, liaise with patients and other departments and services and to respond effectively whilst maintaining excellent communication and relationship skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 or equivalent qualifications
- Good standard of secondary education; GCSE at Grade C or above or equivalent
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of a range of administrative procedures
- Experience of producing documents to a high standard of presentation with good accuracy
- Experience of developing, managing and maintaining office information systems
- Experience of working as part of a team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
