A&C Team Lead

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as an A&C Team Lead for the Northern Contraception, Sexual Health & HIV Service. Responsible for overseeing administrative functions and service delivery in various community healthcare settings, contributing to the health and wellbeing of local communities. Ideal for candidates with strong leadership and team collaboration skills, committed to professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience in administrative management of health services.
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility and leadership.
• Commitment to continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of administrative staff in healthcare services.
• Ensure smooth daily operations and monitor service performance.
• Develop and implement policies for clinical and non-traditional settings.

Skills

IT knowledge

Teamwork

Decision making

Flexibility

Outcome focused

Education

Significant experience in similar background

Evidence of CPD (last 2 years)

Job description

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We seek to recruit a A&C Team Lead to work within the Northern Contraception, Sexual Health & HIV Service for Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT).

The successful candidate will join a dynamic, forward looking and well established service working with teams across Manchester, Salford and Trafford. The department provides services in partnership the local authority, voluntary sector organisations and other agencies that provide health and social care to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of our local communities.

Main duties of the job

The A&C Team Lead is responsible for the day to day administrative management of sexual health, contraception and HIV services at Withington Community Hospital (Clinic A & B) and the Forum Health Centre.

To lead on the management of a team of administrative staff supporting the delivery of a large clinical service delivered from a range of clinical and non-traditional settings and to develop and implement policy for this area.

To ensure the smooth day to day running of clinical services and monitor service performance.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of England’s largest NHS Trusts with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail] .

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Knowledge & experience

• Significant experience in similar background.
• Working knowledge of IT
• Evidence of decision making
• Evidence of CPD (last 2 years)

Skills and Attributes

• Ability to work as part of a team/ability to use own initiative
• Completer/finisher and outcome focused with the ability to set / achieve targets
• Exemplary standards of conduct and behaviour
• Ability to demonstrate a level of flexibility
• Evidence of continuing professional development (last 2 years)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.