Job Description

About the team:
We are a Community Mental Health Team for older adults in Croydon. We help people aged 65+ who are living in the community and have a mental health difficulty. We aim to help and support people to carry on living in the community with a good standard of mental well-being.

We care for people with a range of different mental health needs, including:

• Depression (moderate to severe)
• Anxiety and stress
• Dementia or memory loss
• Other mental health problems to do with mood or mental well-being which may affect daily living.

We also work with people under the age of 65 with progressive memory problems

We are people with a variety of skills. The team includes:

• Community psychiatric nurses
• Occupational therapists
• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists/psychotherapists
• Administrators

About the role:
The successful candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills, have a flexible approach to work, and be able to work with a degree of autonomy. The post holder will provide a comprehensive, efficient and effective administrative service to the multidisciplinary team as well as providing fast and accurate typing skills, with excellent audio and copy typing skills and possess the ability to communicate effectively with patients with mental health problems as well as staff from all disciplines.

The post holder will also need to have a good working knowledge of office procedures including Health & Safety; proven skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook; an excellent standard of written and oral English; a good telephone manner; and an understanding of the importance of confidentiality.

About the location:
We are based at Heavers Resource Centre, 122 Selhurst Road, London, SE25 6LL

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.

Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation,our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities