Business Support Senior Administrator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a proactive and highly organised Business Support Senior Administrator to join the friendly team at Torbay CAMHS. The post holder will provide essential administrative and customer-facing support to the MERs pathway, ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the service. They will work closely with business support colleagues, frontline clinicians, and Psychiatry Consultants, delivering collaborative and accurate secretarial and administrative support.
Essential criteria
- Good general education eg GCSEs or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- NVQ level 3 Business Administration or equivalent experience.
- Computer Literate
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Word, Excel.
- Willing to undertake training relevant to the post.
- Clerical, administrative or reception experience (minimum 1 year).
- Good knowledge of a wide range of office procedures.
- Clerical, administrative or reception experience (minimum 2 years).
- Experience within a customer care, healthcare, education or social care setting.
- Specific Skills
- Effective interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly with a wide variety of colleagues and service users, both verbally and in writing.
- Good planning and organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines. Ability to prioritise and manage workload within a busy environment.
- Ability to support and advise lower banded staff.
- Ability to delegate tasks.
- Minute taking.
- Interested/enthusiastic about working within our services.
- Good general education eg GCSEs or equivalent
- NVQ level 3 Business Administration or equivalent experience.
- Computer Literate
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Word, Excel.
- Willing to undertake training relevant to the post.
- Clerical, administrative or reception experience (minimum 1 year).
- Good knowledge of a wide range of office procedures.
- Clerical, administrative or reception experience (minimum 2 years).
- Experience within a customer care, healthcare, education or social care setting.
- Specific Skills
- Effective interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly with a wide variety of colleagues and service users, both verbally and in writing.
- Good planning and organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines. Ability to prioritise and manage workload within a busy environment.
- Ability to support and advise lower banded staff.
- Ability to delegate tasks.
- Minute taking.
- Interested/enthusiastic about working within our services.
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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Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Business Support Senior Administrator
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
Join Our Team!
If you are someone who thrives on keeping things
running smoothly, loves being the friendly face people rely on, and takes pride
in organised, accurate work, this role will suit you perfectly!
We are seeking a proactive and highly
organised Business Support Senior Administrator to join our friendly team based
at our Torbay site at the Annexe, Torbay Hospital. This pivotal role provides
essential administrative and customer facing
support to our MERs pathway, helping to ensure the smooth, efficient, and
professional running of the service each day.
You will work closely with your business
support colleagues, frontline clinicians, and Psychiatry Consultants,
delivering collaborative, accurate, and reliable secretarial and administrative
support across the team.
This is a permanent full time position
working 37.5 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
Diary Management
Use of electronic systems
Preparation of electronic and paper files
Producing letters and reports
Assisting with reporting and compilation of data
Processing of incoming correspondence
Providing excellent customer service by responding to face to face and
telephone queries in a timely and accurate way
Support to clinical team members
General administrative tasks
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