Total 3 Administrative / Clerical job vacancies in Dorchester, Dorset DT2

The Role: To support a young professional gentleman living with Muscular Dystrophy, to live an exciting and fulfilling life. He requires 2 new members of staff to join his team for day and night shifts. This role is for day shifts.
Main Duties:
• To provide all aspects of personal care
• To use a hoist
• To support to maintain a hygienic home (including laundry, cleaning, and tidying up etc)
• Food and drink preparation
• To support getting out of bed / going to bed each day
• To attend Dr / hospital appointments as and when required
• You will also be required to cover for colleagues on leave and sickness, and on occasions work extra hours, agreed in advance.
• To assist to attend social events, such as meeting friends, day trips, and evening trips.

Personal Qualities and Attributes required:
• Respectful of confidentiality and privacy
• Responsible, reliable, and trustworthy
• Respectful of dignity and independence
• Good communication skills and social skills
• Punctual, and flexible
• Suitable for a casual working environment but always remaining professional.
Car owner with driving license is essential
The employer enjoys television/film, travelling, music and sport.
Please note that this role may be subject to a DBS check, your employer may also ask for you to supply references.
You must be able to prove the right to work in the UK. No sponsorships are available.
Hours: Live-in care (week on week off) 8:30 - 20:30. Days can be flexible.
Hourly Rate: £13.50 per hour
Holidays: 5.6 weeks per year (pro rata) including Bank holidays

Please note, Compass Disability Services (Compass Independent Living Team) is a support, advisory and payroll service. We support people with a disability or long-term health condition to live independently and retain control of their lives within the community. We are not the person that you will work for. You will work for the individual or family that we are supporting.

This role provides essential administrative support to the school’s Senior Leadership Team and will include an element of HR support. An excellent standard of written English and literacy and good communication skills are pivotal to this role. You should hold, or be willing to work towards, a first aid qualification as part of this role will also involve supporting our Main First Aider. The ability to work flexibly, plan, prioritise and manage time efficiently whilst dealing with frequent interruptions is essential. The working hours are 8.30am – 4.30pm, Monday to Thursdays and 8.30am - 4.00pm on Fridays during term-time. This is a permanent contract to start as soon as possible.
The ideal candidate will have 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Maths at grade C or above. Relevant office experience including proven ICT skills are essential. Previous school experience would be an advantage.
Lytchett Minster is a successful 11-18 mixed comprehensive school with approximately 1604 students, 316 of whom are in the successful sixth form. The learning environment is stunning with extensive and beautiful grounds; the school site is comprised of South Lytchett Manor House together with a number of modern extensions including the Arts block and theatre. We pride ourselves on our high standards and positive ethos, the school is popular and highly regarded in the community.

The post holder is required to: communicate tactfully and politely with patients/carers and staff in the exchange of verbal and written information; deal with telephone and face-to-face enquiries efficiently and with understanding, taking action as appropriate; plan and organise own time/work; adjust clinic times as necessary; ensure notes are ready for clinics; type back from dictation, audio or otherwise, all letters and information and take action as necessary within agreed procedures; provide information and advice to patients/carers about admissions and appointments; follow all relevant Trust policies and adhere to department guidelines/standard operating procedures at all times; comment on local policies and procedures where they relate to secretarial or clerical issues; maintain stationery stocks; demonstrate secretarial duties to new starters; maintain and develop patient information, clerical, secretarial and record keeping systems, both paper based and electronic, in line with established Trust systems, liaising with other departments, including Medical Records and Trust Headquarters, where necessary; participate in surveys, gather information and assist with audits as required through the collection of data; provide cover across the division as required; take minutes at meetings and distribute accordingly as requested; in line with standard operating procedures, deal withincoming mail, make appointments, update the Patient Tracking List (PTL), accept telephone calls for the consultant and other members of the multi-disciplinary team and maintain diaries, taking action as necessary; work with the multi-disciplinary team to maintain and support departmental/divisional practice and procedures and ensure that activity targets are achieved; ensure that all tasks are organised and produced to expected standards and within reasonable timescales in response to service demands; use VDU equipment to word process and input data for a substantial proportion of the shift; concentrate for transcribing tapes and typing complicated medical documents; type letters of a distressing nature. Assist with cover over the Division if required