Administration Team Leader - Cardiology Investigations

Job summary

There is currently an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and ambitious individual to join the Cardiac Investigations Department as an experienced full time Team Leader for the Cardiac Investigation Administrators. This post provides an excellent opportunity to further your career as a healthcare administrator, working within a thriving and busy service.

We are looking for someone with relevant team leader experience, who is enthusiastic and willing to learn. You will need to have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate that you can work well within a multidisciplinary team. You will work closely with patients, administrators, clinicians, managers and staff across the Trust. Time management skills are also essential as you will need to balance the demands of a very busy workload. The post holder will need to have some prior experience of providing administrative services in a healthcare setting and will require the ability to learn healthcare systems quickly.

Main duties of the job

The Cardiac Investigations Team Leader for Administration will report directly to the Assistant Service Manager for Cardiac Investigations. They will be expected to work autonomously but under direction. The Team leader will work closely with the Head of Physiology, Assistant Service Manager and physiologists for the service. The role is key to delivering an effective service to our patients.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.