Maternity and Neonatal Admin Team Lead

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone with strong leadership skills to join our friendly and compassionate Maternity and Neonatal administration team.

The successful candidate will provide line management support and supervision of the maternity administration teams in the appointed areas, ensuring strict compliance with Trust policies and procedures, while demonstrating the leadership behaviours expected by the organisation.

You will be responsible for providing an effective and well-organised administrative service, working closely with the Maternity and Neonatal Admin Manager, and supporting ongoing local Quality Improvements in line with national workstreams.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Maternity & Neonatal admin teams; to provide compassionate leadership, to line manage the reception, ward clerk and admin teams and be responsible for their training and development.

To work directly with and to support the Senior Leadership team across Maternity & Neonatal services and other multidisciplinary professionals.

Provide administration functions to support ongoing local Quality Improvements in line with national workstreams.

To work closely with and support the Maternity and Neonatal Admin Manager, providing day-to-day management and support of other teams when required.

Provide admin support to meetings across the service to include agenda setting, minute taking and circulating documents.

Provide admin support for clinical teams in the specialised roles of Safeguarding, Perinatal Mental Health, Education, and Digital.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk