Address An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced administrator to join Sussex Partnership's Research Support Team , and to play an integral part of our extensive research programme as a Research Support Team Administrator .
Our Research and Development (R&D) service designs and delivers a diverse range of mental health and dementia research studies in partnership with the Trust’s clinical services, higher education institutes, other NHS Trusts locally and beyond, charities and the regional clinical research network. We aim to improve the care and treatment of our service users, support for their carers and families, and to translate our research into tomorrow's standard of care.
As the Research Support Team Administrator , you will play a pivotal support role, helping to enable the undertaking of research studies, as well as providing assistant to our research staff. You will quickly become a valued member of the R&D dept., for good administrators are the back-bone of any successful service.
You will deliver multi-faceted support for the wider R&D department, including the following duties:
Monitoring the safety of staff on research visits
Procurement of research materials
Invoicing research payments
Raising purchase orders
Maintaining the R&D Staff roster
Supporting the recruitment and induction of new research staff
Administrative support for meetings and forums (including minute taking, diary management, room bookings)
Inbox monitoring
Managing petty cash
Sussex Partnership is one of the most research active Mental Health Trusts in England.
The Research Support Team is a small, friendly team, consisting of a Manager, a Communications Lead and one other Administrator. Both administrators will share and cover similar duties, but there is room to tailor the role to the successful candidate's skillset and strengths. As a department, we encourage growth and career progression.
We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. As such, we offer a flexible, blended approach to working, and fully support home-based working. However, it will be necessary for the post-holder to work at least one day per-week from our offices at the Sussex Education Centre, Hove.
In order to be a successful Research Support Team Administrato r in our team, we're ideally looking for someone who is:
Enthusiastic and personable
Professional and organised in their approach to work and prioritising workloads
An experienced administrator (ideally within the NHS or other healthcare setting)
Enjoy working with a variety of professionals of different roles and grades
Able to work under their own initiative
Comfortable with the occasionally ad-hoc nature of a busy department
Be open to learning new administrative skills and software systems
Bring fresh ideas to the role,
You will work closely with a wide range of staff, especially research assistants, researchers and managers within R&D; and, external to our dept., with the Trust's HR, Finance and Roster functions. You will also be a link between R&D and external professionals. The Research Support Team is at the centre of enabling successful research within SPFT.
See the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
