Team Administrator | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

The Community Therapy Team Brighton and Hove is looking for an administrator to work within the team based at Brighton General Hospital. The role will involve supporting the day-to-day delivery of the community therapy service by providing first line contact to service users and other professionals.

The post holder must have good organisational and communication skills and be able to work under their own initiative and follow directions.

They must also be actively engaged in service development for both administrative and clinical processes to maximise efficiency and ensure a good patient experience.

Main responsibilities include processing incoming information including patient referrals. The successful candidate will provide other administration support to include stock control, monitoring of email inboxes, scanning, stock management & processing subject access requests.

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Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk websitebefore applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

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Receive calls into the service. Respond to queries and requests and gather the relevant narrative to ensure clear information is obtained and forwarded on to the community therapy team clinical coordinators, clinical leads and individual member of staffs.

Devising and maintaining efficient filing, clerical & office systems, & providing administrative support to the teams, including photocopying, dealing with internal/external post.

Monitor & maintain stocks of therapy supplies, stationery, equipment & resources for the team.

Processing referrals received into the service and registering patient referrals on System 1- referrals are received online, via telephone, other health professionals and other electronically received correspondence.

Monitoring generic therapy mail box , managing tasks and batch reports.

Processing of subject access requests.

Reporting sickness of staff members to team leads.

Receiving incoming post, emails and telephone calls in a courteous, professional manner is a key part of the role.

Attending and contributing to staff meetings and supporting developments within the service.

To be able to use own initiative, deal with anything that arises on a day to day basis and liaise effectively with Clinical Leads and Team

Carrying out any duties or responsibilities reasonably delegated or requested by the Clinical Leads including PA support as required.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing

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Varied environments

community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex

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Flexible working options

part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement

• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

To provide day to day administrative support.

Liaising and dealing in a professional and helpful manner with clients, staff and other departments or agencies by telephone, taking messages, referring other issues as appropriate and answering routine enquiries.

Helping with any system issues reporting and dealing with and IT problems.

Participating in the Trust supervision and appraisal strategy.

To contribute to the service planning and development group in relation to administration systems and procedures.

To order and maintain adequate levels of stationery and equipment as required by the team, authorised by the Lead.

To maintain expected standards of office safety and security.

Make up Patient Yellow Files add to System One and discharge when the service has completed the treatment.

To support the team in the day to day running, tasks include ordering PPE saving caseloads onto the USB stick answering the phone.

Word processing of reports and letters, including amending and tidying documents prepared by others, drafting routine correspondence for approval by the team members and taking formal minutes of meetings as required, using software packages as appropriate, e.g. Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Maintain and update IT and Maintenance data bases with any Team issues.

Keeping office systems up-to-date (e.g. bring forward), devising and maintaining efficient filing, clerical and office systems, and providing general support within the team.

Helping with meetings organised within the Team and writing up the notes.

Receive and sort internal and external mail and deal with each appropriately.

This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026