Liaison Psychiatry Administrator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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Role summary
The Liaison Psychiatry Administrator provides comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Psychiatry Liaison team at Dorset County Hospital. This involves managing correspondence, referrals, reports, and organizing meetings. The role requires excellent communication, interpersonal, and IT skills, as well as the ability to work accurately under pressure and as part of a team. The administrator will be the first point of contact for the service, handling phone calls and processing mail efficiently.
Essential criteria
- Good standard of general education eg: GCSEs
- RSA level or equivalent qualification
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of working with spreadsheets e.g.: Excel
- Skills/ Experience/ Knowledge Base
- Sound use of Word, Microsoft and Windows
- Goodd communication skills (verbal and written)
- Organisational skills
- Keyboard skills
- Time Management skills
- Able to prioritise
- Additional training in office packages
- Competent with MS excel
- Experience of working in an office environment/ administrative role.
- Personal Qualities/ Attributes
- Development and maintain good working relationships
- Be able to work in a flexible and approachable manner
- Demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality
- Able to work under pressure and time frames effectively
- Able to use own initiative and problem solving skills
- Addtional Requirements
- The role requires the postholder to sit at a keyboard for frequent periods of time and use a VDU/ computer on a frequent basis
- The role requires frequent concentration for typing documents
- To be able to work with frequent interruptions
- Demonstrate skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively
- Educational Requirements / Qualifications
- Good standard of general education eg: GCSEs
- RSA level or equivalent qualification
- Knowledge of working with spreadsheets e.g.: Excel
- Skills/ Experience/ Knowledge Base
- Sound use of Word, Microsoft and Windows
- Goodd communication skills (verbal and written)
- Organisational skills
- Keyboard skills
- Time Management skills
- Able to prioritise
- Additional training in office packages
- Competent with MS excel
- Experience of working in an office environment/ administrative role.
- Personal Qualities/ Attributes
- Development and maintain good working relationships
- Be able to work in a flexible and approachable manner
- Demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality
- Able to work under pressure and time frames effectively
- Able to use own initiative and problem solving skills
- Addtional Requirements
- The role requires the postholder to sit at a keyboard for frequent periods of time and use a VDU/ computer on a frequent basis
- The role requires frequent concentration for typing documents
- To be able to work with frequent interruptions
- Demonstrate skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Liaison Psychiatry Administrator
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
The Liaison Psychiatry Team provide assessments and support to service users referred to our service by the general hospital wards.
We are looking to recruit an administrator to our team. You will be required to have excellent communicate and interpersonal skills, as day to day you will be required to interact with a number of different people, and are often the first point of call when contacting our service. In additional to customer care skills you be need to demonstrate excellent IT skills.
You must be able to work accurately under pressure, whilst remaining calm, and be able to work well as part of a team. You will be working within a team of administrators who provide a comprehensive administrative service across the Poole and Bournemouth sites. The role is office based.
Employment in this post requires a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.
Main duties of the job
To provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to Psychiatry Liaison team at Dorset County hospital , to include: providing requested correspondence, referrals to service, reports, the organisation of meetings/conferences and faxing, photocopying and e-mailing services in an efficient
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