UPC Operations Administration Manager

CBC Health

The closing date is 09 May 2024

Job summary

This role is a 12-month fixed term or secondment opportunity, therefore please discuss with your line manager to ensure the team could accommodate the secondment.

We are looking to recruit a Band 5 Operations Administration Manager to support Urgent Primary Care (UPC) Services in Gateshead. This is a temporary full time position, to cover maternity leave, working as part of a small but very supportive admin team.

CBC Health Federation are a not-for-profit organisation with a wide and diverse portfolio of services that we deliver as an NHS provider.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, friendly, outgoing, and approachable person, who is skilled and qualified in administrative duties. It is essential that you have excellent inter-personal and communication skills and can demonstrate experience of leading a team and have strong leadership skills.

The successful candidate will need to be flexible as key requirements of this role may involve weekend working / unsociable hours and there is an expectation that the post holder with undertake on-call responsibility.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will support the management of the Urgent Primary Care (UPC) Service which operates 7 days a week, 24/7, ensuring that all rota shifts including standby are filled.

The post holder will manage day to day UPC activity and deputise for the UPC Service Lead as required.

Additional administrative duties will also be required, e.g., prescription management, management of Adastra, overseeing reports for NEAS and YAS, and liaison, coordination and organisation of meetings and training. The postholder will be responsible for a defined group of staff and all areas of line management.

The service operates from several locations, the post holder will be required to work autonomously and flexibly at other locations.

Please see attached Job Description for more information.

If you have the drive and passion to support delivering quality services, we would love to hear from you!

About us

Community Based Care Health Federation Ltd are based on Team Valley serving Primary Care in Gateshead and the wider Northeast footprint. As a not-for-profit provider we reinvest any surplus to improve services for our patients in Gateshead and support our GP's and Primary Care Networks to deliver the highest quality services.

As a provider of high quality clinical and non-clinical services we are a respected and proud company that puts patients at the heart of what we do, whilst valuing and supporting our staff to grow and develop. We have company values developed by our staff that underpin our work and the way we work together, and we have a staff culture club to ensure the voice of our staff is heard at Board level and throughout the senior management team.

Many of our roles are available with the NHS pension scheme and transferable service is recognised from previous NHS employment as appropriate. We offer competitive rates of pay and out of hours enhancements and have a fully integrated reward and recognition system. We have just been awarded our Bronze "Better Health at Work Award" where we have demonstrated our commitment to supporting our workforce to keep well at work and we are now working to achieve the silver award.

Date posted

09 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0154-24-0006

Job locations

Building 7 Queens Park

Queensway, Team Valley

Gateshead

NE11 0QD


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for more information on main duties, qualifications and skills required for this role, within CBC Health Federation.

Please note: CBC Health Federation do not support the use of AI in the completion of applications. All answers used must be backed up with real examples.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for more information on main duties, qualifications and skills required for this role, within CBC Health Federation.

Please note: CBC Health Federation do not support the use of AI in the completion of applications. All answers used must be backed up with real examples.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) graded 4 or above, including Maths and English GCSE
  • Business Administration NVQ Level 3
  • ECDL qualification or be able to demonstrate IT skills to this level
  • ILM Level 3

Desirable

  • A-levels
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Management / leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Strong levels of IT proficiency
  • Experience of working in a busy office environment.
  • Working and communicating with staff at all levels within the organisation
  • Experience in the use of databases and spreadsheets with accurate data entry skills
  • Understand data and reporting on business performance
  • Experience of line management of staff
  • Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Flexibility with hours / days of work to cover the 24/7 service needs
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including on the telephone and face to face.
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Ability to work with limited supervision and use initiative regarding tasks to see through to completion
  • Proven ability to handle a busy and varied workload
  • Excellent attention to detail with an ability to follow process
  • Understanding of Data Protection and Confidentiality
  • Strong organisational ability and ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
  • Experience of dealing with stakeholders both face to face and via the telephone
  • Problem solving skills
  • Flexibility and the willingness to learn and take on new tasks

Desirable

  • Ability to take notes of meetings and produce accurate minutes
  • Previous experience of managing GP workload
  • General practice experience
  • Knowledge of Adastra and EMIS
  • Knowledge of Rotamaster

Other

Essential

  • Can-do attitude
  • Able to travel independently
  • Ability to keep calm under pressure
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) graded 4 or above, including Maths and English GCSE
  • Business Administration NVQ Level 3
  • ECDL qualification or be able to demonstrate IT skills to this level
  • ILM Level 3

Desirable

  • A-levels
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Management / leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Strong levels of IT proficiency
  • Experience of working in a busy office environment.
  • Working and communicating with staff at all levels within the organisation
  • Experience in the use of databases and spreadsheets with accurate data entry skills
  • Understand data and reporting on business performance
  • Experience of line management of staff
  • Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Flexibility with hours / days of work to cover the 24/7 service needs
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including on the telephone and face to face.
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Ability to work with limited supervision and use initiative regarding tasks to see through to completion
  • Proven ability to handle a busy and varied workload
  • Excellent attention to detail with an ability to follow process
  • Understanding of Data Protection and Confidentiality
  • Strong organisational ability and ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
  • Experience of dealing with stakeholders both face to face and via the telephone
  • Problem solving skills
  • Flexibility and the willingness to learn and take on new tasks

Desirable

  • Ability to take notes of meetings and produce accurate minutes
  • Previous experience of managing GP workload
  • General practice experience
  • Knowledge of Adastra and EMIS
  • Knowledge of Rotamaster

Other

Essential

  • Can-do attitude
  • Able to travel independently
  • Ability to keep calm under pressure

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

CBC Health

Address

Building 7 Queens Park

Queensway, Team Valley

Gateshead

NE11 0QD


Employer's website

http://www.cbchealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

CBC Health

Address

Building 7 Queens Park

Queensway, Team Valley

Gateshead

NE11 0QD


Employer's website

http://www.cbchealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

UPC Service Lead

Melanie Fogg

melanie.fogg@nhs.net

01914977710

Date posted

09 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0154-24-0006

Job locations

Building 7 Queens Park

Queensway, Team Valley

Gateshead

NE11 0QD


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