Team Leader - Patient Access

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced administrator to lead a team, coordinating duties and delivering high quality patient pathways. The post holder will demonstrate excellent communication and supervisory skills and work as part of a multidisciplinary team to meet KPIs.

You will ensure efficient administrative processes, drive standards of customer service and support staff development, including recruitment, induction and performance management.

Job description

The post holder will be required to manage a team and will be responsible for the coordination of duties across that team.

The post holder will be required to demonstrate excellent communication, organisational and supervisory skills, and be able to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.

They will support the Patient Access management team to deliver our KPIs and provide a high quality administrative service to support our patient pathways.

They will be responsible for ensuring their team deliver an effective and efficient service to service users including, clinicians, nurses and other key staff groups.

The post holder will manage the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service to patients. They will have responsibility for ensuring that all administrative processes are efficient and effective and enable the team and the Trust to meet high standards of performance. The post holder will have specific responsibility for driving forward excellent standards of customer service taking action where levels of service delivery fall short of what is required or do not uphold Trust values. The post holder will line manage a team of administrators and will be responsible for organising workload and cover, recruiting and inducting new staff members, identifying training and support required by individuals and managing performance.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital- along with award-winning clinics across North West London.

Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children's services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.

We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.

We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements, accommodating requests where possible to support our staff and patient needs.

The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates. Early application is advised as vacancies may close once sufficient applications are received. If you haven't heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.

Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alando Clarke Job title: Assistant Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0203 315 2790