Team Leader
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford, OX39DU
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
3 September 2026
3 days left
Job description
We are #OneTeamOneOUH Are you passionate about making a positive impact in the healthcare industry? Do you thrive in a dynamic and compassionate envir...
The Team Leader is responsible for the delivery and oversight of a professional, comprehensive, and efficient administrative service, ensuring it is consistently delivered to all patients and members of the Department. This includes leading and supporting the administrative team, ensuring standardisation of processes, and maintaining a high-quality, responsive service.
The role involves coordinating and supervising the full administrative function for a specialty team, including providing operational support to consultant teams and ensuring effective management of patient pathways. The Team Leader has responsibility for ensuring pathways are actively managed in line with the Trust's Elective Access Policy, supporting the achievement of RTT and other performance standards, and proactively addressing risks to patient flow, data quality, and service delivery.
The post holder will also be responsible for supporting staff development, managing workload distribution, and driving continuous improvement to enhance both service efficiency and patient experience.
Leadership and Team Management
- Lead, support, and supervise the administrative team, acting as the first point of contact for staff and operational queries.
- Allocate workloads effectively and ensure appropriate service cover during absences.
- Provide training, mentorship, and development opportunities, ensuring staff are competent and supported in their roles.
- Manage recruitment, appraisals, and performance issues in line with Trust policies.
Patient Pathway Management - Take responsibility for tracking patients through the 18-week referral-to-treatment pathway and ensuring compliance with Trust access targets.
- Monitor waiting lists, identify long waiters, and escalate risks or potential breaches to senior managers.
- Ensure patients are scheduled and treated within required timeframes, including urgent and suspected cancer pathways.
Service Delivery and Performance - Oversee the delivery of a high-quality, efficient administrative service supporting the full patient pathway.
- Monitor team performance, capacity, and activity, taking timely action to address service pressures.
- Support delivery of key performance targets and contribute to weekly performance reviews and escalation processes.
Communication and Stakeholder Working - Build strong working relationships with consultants, clinical teams, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Act as a key point of contact for patients, providing non-clinical advice and escalating concerns where required.
- Represent the service at meetings and ensure clear communication of actions and outcomes to the team.
Quality, Governance, and Improvement - Ensure data accuracy and quality across all patient administration systems.
- Contribute to the investigation of complaints, identifying trends and supporting service improvements.
- Work with management and clinical leads to identify and implement service development initiatives.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
Managment experience
Essential
- NHS experience
- Leadership experience
- RTT /Validation experience
- customer services
- computer skills
- Education minimum of GSCE or equivalent
- communication skills
Desirable
- Previous management experience
- Higher education in management or equivalent
- Knowledge of NHS Trust Elective access Policy & RTT
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First seen
20 August 2026
Last checked
24 August 2026
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