Posted 22 April, 2026 Community Lifeline logo

Office Administrator

Community Lifeline Kent

Job details

  • Salary Salary details
  • Role Care Coordinator / Administrator
  • Hours Full Time
  • Location Longfield, Kent
  • Job Reference OFFICE_ADMINISTRATOR

Job summary

Purpose of the Role:

To ensure all office audits and paperwork are filed and up to date.

Key Tasks:

To assist the management with all administration within the office, which may include:

  • Checking weekly timesheets and auditing mileage
  • Assigning training to staff
  • Arranging in-house training
  • Ensuring all learning platforms are up to date
  • Chasing staff to complete their training within the time scale
  • Updating training audits and filing all certificates
  • Ensuring all the service users’ and staff files are kept up to date
  • Archiving documents as per the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR
  • Working co-operatively as part of a team to provide administrative support
  • Ordering office materials
  • Taking client invoice payments
  • Preparing monthly wages and invoices
  • Inputting data on Microsoft Excel (staff holidays, annual leave calculations)
  • Answering office telephone calls and taking messages as and when needed
  • Communicating clearly when emailing, texting, and speaking over the phone
  • Liaising with the senior carers regarding spot checks/ reviews that are due
  • Informing the manager of appraisals that are due
  • Attending office staff meetings
  • Maintaining a clean and safe office environment
  • Helping with Mobility2U sales and ordering stock, including wheelchair hire and taking card payments

Responsibilities:

  • Accurately passing on relevant information about service users to management
  • Assisting senior staff so that the individual plan of care may be regularly reviewed and updated.
  • Reporting any accidents or incidents immediately to management
  • Working as a team player and demonstrating loyalty, flexibility and commitment and a desire to make a difference in people’s lives
  • Always maintaining confidentiality
  • Protecting service users’ human rights
  • Not providing or accepting a standard of care or behaviour below than expected by the company
  • Reporting to management if you feel a colleague’s work practices has fallen below this, including use of the whistle-blowing procedures, if necessary
  • Always promote a positive and professional working environment when communicating with coworkers, service users/ families and friends, multi-disciplinary teams, and GPs.
  • Clear and concise input of data, to ensure the company is working within the CQC key lines of enquiry.

Benefits:

·  Free parking on the premises

·  Automatic enrolment in the company’s pension scheme

·  Support and mentoring via office staff: Manager, Care Coordinator, Quality Assessor, and Recruitment Officer.

Skills / Qualifications:

  • Excellent numeracy and literacy skills
  • Great communication skills
  • Timekeeping
  • Organisational
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Remain calm under pressure
  • IT skills (MS Word/Excel)
  • Experience in Sales