Administration Manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

An exciting new post has arisen within the Maternity administration team, as the Maternity admin manager.

You will be responsible for the direct line manage Maternity administrative team, providing effective and efficient administrative management support. You will be working closely with the midwives and obstetrics team and expected to be well organised. The post holder will be accountable to the maternity business manager for the St Mary's site.

If you have previous line management experience and managing clinic capacity with a flexible "can-do" attitude to work and can see yourself as part of a busy multidisciplinary team, then we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Manages the people, processes and performance of an administration or service support team within a specified service.
• Manages the planning and prioritization of the work associated with their team and organises all activities in order to achieve a cost effective, productive, high quality service.
• Provides cross site support to enable co-operation within and amongst teams.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree level qualification or equivalent training and/or experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of administration procedures and computerised software
• Operational experience in a managerial role.
• Track record of influencing and engaging staff

Desirable criteria

• Organisation of staff rotas Supervisory experience

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to prioritise and delegate tasks appropriately
• Ability to work autonomously or as part of a team.
• Lead by example
• Professional attitude

Desirable criteria

• Experienced in the use of Health Roster

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 647.0KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)