Are you an experienced administrator – ideally with knowledge of the Mental Health Act or a qualification in it - looking for a new challenge? If so, join Chadwick Lodge as a Mental Health Act and Compliance Administrator.
As a Mental Health Act and Compliance Administrator you will work as part of the administration team at Chadwick Lodge, a service that cares for service users with complex and enduring mental illness, where you will work 37.5 hours a week ensuring the department upholds a confidential, professional, and efficient service.
You will be responsible on a day-to-day basis for the administration and implementation of the Mental Health Act, ensuring the requirements of the Act are met, and playing a key role in ensuring service users are legally detained.
In addition, you will provide administrative support including minuting meetings, maintaining records and trackers, supporting with compliance monitoring, coordinating audit programmes, as well as providing some support to the senior nurses.
You will liaise with clinicians, allied professionals, service users, their families, legal representatives and official agencies, receiving and responding to enquiries and requests for information in accordance with company policy, service level agreements and statutory regulations.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to improve processes and the general flow of information so that the service can operate efficiently.
At Elysium, we want the best for you. That’s why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.
As a Mental Health Act and Compliance Administrator you will be:
- Managing Mental Health Act documentation and correspondence, providing a comprehensive administration service including: receipt, scrutiny and rectification of documents; transfer of authority; consent to treatment; and other such MHA tasks required in accordance with policies and procedures.
- Dealing with administrative tasks associated with Mental Health Tribunals and Associate Hospital Manager hearings, both face-to-face and virtual, including meeting with detained patients to explain their rights of appeal against detention under the MHA.
- Organising and servicing meetings ensuring the effective and timely production, collation and distribution of reports, minutes or other relevant documentation and monitoring the completion of action points through action trackers.
- Assisting with compliance and quality administration including maintaining records, databases and trackers, collating and analysing data, and co-ordinating the effective implementation of audit processes.
Where you will be working:
Location: Chadwick Drive (off Saxon Street), Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 5LS
You will be working at Chadwick Lodge and Eaglestone View hospital, which encompasses medium, low, locked and acute services. We provide specialist treatment programmes for service users who may have been detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) and may have a history of offending behaviour. The service offers a broad spectrum of evidence-based therapeutic interventions, involving service users at every stage. The hospital’s consultant-led multidisciplinary team has a wealth of clinical and research experience in forensic psychiatry. All programmes are designed to reduce the risk of re-offending and to maximise the potential and enhance the quality of life of each service user.
We also offer a rehabilitation intensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) service for women with diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, as well as a male Acute Service providing full medical, clinical and therapeutic packages.
Chadwick Lodge secure services care for service users with complex and enduring mental illness who need to achieve stability in order to benefit from multidisciplinary interventions, helping them move on to community settings whenever possible.
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
- Business Administration/Secretarial qualification or relevant experience essential.
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983, including Mental Health Law, Mental Capacity Act and any relevant legislation is desirable.
- Knowledge of compliance and auditing systems is desirable.
- IT skills including being competent in the use of Microsoft office applications, especially Word, Excel and Outlook, as well as setting up video conferencing meetings, and working with electronic data and record systems.
- Exceptional organisational skills and ability to manage competing tasks and priorities whilst working to deadlines.
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent with qualifications in English and Maths.
What you will get:
- Annual salary of £26,130
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – (inc Bank Holidays) plus your birthday off!
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
- Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
- Pension contribution to secure your future.
- Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
- Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
