Administration Manager

The Administration Manager role will be responsible for ensuring the organisation and delivery of a coordinated and responsive Cardiothoracic Service in a manner consistent with Trust and local policies, procedures and protocols. To work unsupervised and act independently to manage own workload referring to the Operational Service Manager when/where necessary.

You will oversee the administrative team within the Cardiothoracic Clinical Board ensuring that a comprehensive, high quality and efficient service is provided to various multi-disciplinary teams ensuring that the organisational needs of the patient services and operational issues are met.

The role includes direct supervision of the clerical teams, being the point of contact, including arranging cover for annual leave and sickness, monitoring of sickness absence and undertaking yearly appraisal for the administration team. The post holder will develop, introduce and maintain systems and processes to guarantee an efficient and effective service that supports the delivery of activity and performance targets.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

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Qualifications & Education

Knowledge & Experience

Essential: - Experience with secretarial procedures; - Experience with administrative procedures

Desirable: - Previous management experience including: - o Business o Personnel; - Knowledge of HR policy and procedure

Skills & Abilities

Essential: - Have knowledge of the Patient Administrative System (PAS); - People and OD management; - Strong communication skills