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Band 3
Part-time

Team Administrator

Oxleas NHS Foundation TrustOrpington, BR6 0JB, United Kingdom£30,630 - £32,346Closes 20/09/2026

At a glance

Band
Band 3
Contract
Fixed-term
Pattern
Part-time
Posted
10/09/2026
Closes
20/09/2026

Sponsorship verdict

This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.

NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.

Role summary

This role provides integrated secretarial and administrative support to the Community Mental Health Team. Key duties include client liaison, managing correspondence, maintaining office systems, and using electronic record systems. The administrator will handle sensitive information, manage diaries, and ensure client confidentiality while supporting the team's daily operations.

Essential criteria

  • Computer Knowledge

Desirable criteria

  • Office Experience
  • Excel Expereince
  • Basic Excel Experience
  • Knowledge of spread sheets
  • Eye for detail
  • Proof reading
  • Competence of reading and typing letters
  • Computer Knowledge
  • Computer Knowledge
  • Office Experience
  • Excel Expereince
  • Basic Excel Experience
  • Knowledge of spread sheets
  • Eye for detail
  • Proof reading
  • Competence of reading and typing letters

Useful to know

Band 3 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.

This advert: £30,630 – £32,346 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Team Administrator

The closing date is 20 September 2026

Job summary

To provide integrated and comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Community Mental Health Team dealing with client enquiries and maintaining good office systems.

Main duties of the job

  • Liaison and telephone contact with clients, relatives, GPs, Consultants, Solicitors and Social Services staff within hospital and community health settings. To act as first point of contact for incoming calls, taking accurate, details messages as necessary ensuring these are passed on to the appropriate personnel, using initiative in finding appropriate clinician for advice if required staff member is absent.
  • Providing and receiving complex and sensitive information.
  • Proactively communicating with colleagues on workload issues, annual leave arrangements and administration issues.
  • Maintain sound working relationships and communication with all colleagues within Oxleas.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages a

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