Business Support Team Leader

Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?

The Business Support Team Leader will manage the provision of an efficient, effective and high quality administrative and clerical service to support health and social care professionals and service users/patients within a community based team. To provide a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to senior medical staff and senior management staff.

The role will report to a Business Support Manager, who has overall responsibility for an administrative hub of services. The teams that the Team Leader would be responsible for may include those supporting:

A defined community based service (locality or district wide in nature)

Lead and motivate a team within an admin hub environment to deliver administrative support to a range of locality based clinical services/ single point of access service / reception / switchboard services as defined in role objectives.

Manage the team’s performance and deliver activity within agreed standard operating procedure and to defined quality standards.

Develop and implement standardised approaches to administrative work within the area of responsibility

Provide line management supervision and guidance to the Senior Assistants and the Assistants.

In undertaking the role the post holder will be required to initiate own tasks and prioritise own workload.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligiblevacancies.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £20.00 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £26.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £41.00 + administration cost of £6.50 = £47.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

• 27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
• NHS Discounts*
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
• Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related…