Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Admin Team Lead

The closing date is 11 June 2025

Job summary

Admin Team Lead: Band 4, 37.5 hours per week (5 days per week).

Fixed Term Contract to 31st March 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a supervisory admin role within the Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) service, initially for a fixed term period. The role is full time (37.5 hours per week), based at Covercroft Centre in Droitwich but travel to the Child Development Centres and Kidderminster Health Centre may be required from time to time.

If you are a highly organised and experienced administrator with leadership or transformation experience this could be an excellent opportunity to continue to develop your skills. We are looking for a professional, motivated and enthusiastic individual to provide leadership for an experienced group of Band2 & Band3 Administrators and Reception staff working in the Community Paediatrics team.

We will provide you with resources to support you in this fixed term role together with a wide range of wellbeing and benefits as part of an attractive employment package. You will receive line manager support and training to be able to deliver on Trust policies, acting as an advocate for the service.

Please note the Trust will not provide sponsorship to work for this role, to apply you must have current right to work in the UK status.

Main duties of the job

The team are experiencing high demand and the focus of this role will be to retain quality whilst improving efficiency and delivering excellent customer service. You will be expected to be a supportive and compassionate line manager. A keen interest in innovation, change and improvement would be beneficial to lead the staff group to review and transform processes.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and attention to detail together with a broad knowledge base of IT systems used within the NHS and will be experienced in the use of all Microsoft Office products, with a high level of IT literacy to support the team in the use of digital options to their full potential.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

  • 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
  • Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
  • Flexible and agile working opportunities
  • Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
  • Wide range of supportive staff networks
  • Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our website.

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Details

Date posted

27 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

10 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9798-1445

Job locations

Covercroft Centre

Colman Road

Droitwich

WR9 8QU


Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to academic Level 3 (e.g. A-Level, NVQ 3, OCR/RSA 3, City & Guilds 3) in a Business Administration related subject
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to challenge poor behaviour
  • Role modelling good behaviour
  • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
  • Ability to praise and be supportive to others
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
  • Advanced IT skills. These will be tested at interview)
  • Minute taking skills
  • Numerate
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Good organisational skills
  • Able to demonstrate the ability to use initiative effectively

Desirable

  • Line Management
  • Supervisory Skills

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of the full range of administrative procedures
  • Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office Word/Excel/Outlook

Desirable

  • Powerpoint

Experience

Essential

  • Significant recent Administrative/Secretarial experience (usually demonstrated by a minimum of 3 years experience)
  • Supervision/management of staff
  • Minute taking experience

Desirable

  • Previous NHS experience
  • Supervision/management of staff

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Willingness to commit to continuing professional development
  • Professional manner as a representative of the Trust
  • Tact and discretion for dealing with confidential information
  • Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role
  • You understand that we will not provide sponsorship to work for this role.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to academic Level 3 (e.g. A-Level, NVQ 3, OCR/RSA 3, City & Guilds 3) in a Business Administration related subject
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to challenge poor behaviour
  • Role modelling good behaviour
  • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
  • Ability to praise and be supportive to others
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
  • Advanced IT skills. These will be tested at interview)
  • Minute taking skills
  • Numerate
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Good organisational skills
  • Able to demonstrate the ability to use initiative effectively

Desirable

  • Line Management
  • Supervisory Skills

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of the full range of administrative procedures
  • Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office Word/Excel/Outlook

Desirable

  • Powerpoint

Experience

Essential

  • Significant recent Administrative/Secretarial experience (usually demonstrated by a minimum of 3 years experience)
  • Supervision/management of staff
  • Minute taking experience

Desirable

  • Previous NHS experience
  • Supervision/management of staff

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Willingness to commit to continuing professional development
  • Professional manner as a representative of the Trust
  • Tact and discretion for dealing with confidential information
  • Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role
  • You understand that we will not provide sponsorship to work for this role.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Covercroft Centre

Colman Road

Droitwich

WR9 8QU


Employer's website

https://www.hacw.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Covercroft Centre

Colman Road

Droitwich

WR9 8QU


Employer's website

https://www.hacw.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Operation Lead

Anita Duffey

a.duffey@nhs.net

07768052621

Details

Date posted

27 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

10 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9798-1445

Job locations

Covercroft Centre

Colman Road

Droitwich

WR9 8QU


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