Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Rare Diabetes Administrator

The closing date is 05 February 2026

Job summary

This is a coordinator and administrative role helping to facilitate the successful running of the Alstrom, Setmelanotide, Wolfram and BBS MDT clinics. The post holder is involved in all aspects of the service from referral to eventual transition and everything in between. The majority of the role will be organising clinics and liaising with the appropriate charities and clinicians.

Main duties of the job

  • Oversee all outpatient activity, booking appointments when required and sending out appointment letters and setting up referrals.
  • Cashing up clinics and maintaining waiting lists as and when required.
  • To liaise with corresponding charities and wider MDT to ensure clinics are well attended and have the appropriate clinicians and patients. And to ensure that any relevant patient information is sent and/or received in time for clinic as and when requested by the former.
  • To ensure the Consultants, nurses and the wider MDT are organised effectively and efficiently so that they are able to operate all their clinical and non-clinical commitments.
  • The Trust is able to accurately review and report compliance with relevant NHS guidelines and targets with regard to waiting times and patient activity.
  • Deal efficiently with all patient enquires by phone, letter, email or face to face whilst exercising initiative and tact with regard to action necessary. Ensure that all messages are relayed as quickly as possible and any urgent correspondence escalated to the most appropriate multi-disciplinary team (MDT) member.
  • To put together, alongside the Consultants, the list of clinic dates for the year and plan pre and post clinic meetings for each of these and ensure that these are distributed to the MDT in a timely manner ensuring that they can plan their year around these dates.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Details

Date posted

22 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

284-25-7600277-DMUT-B

Job locations

Birmingham Children's Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

Essential

  • oPrevious NHS experience
  • oExperience of office systems
  • oExperience of dealing with confidential issues
  • oPrevious experience of secretarial/administrative work
  • oProven ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines
  • oProven organisational skills
  • oExperience of organising and supporting meetings within an organisation

Desirable

  • oMedical terminology

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

  • oAttention to detail
  • oMethodical and well organised
  • oProven ability to prioritise demanding workload

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

Essential

  • oGood communication skills - oral, written and telephone
  • oGood customer care skills
  • oEnjoys handling routine tasks

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

Essential

  • oFriendly outgoing personality
  • oCustomer orientated approach
  • oReliable and ability to use own initiative
  • oAbility to work without direct supervision
  • oFlexible and adaptable to changing situations
  • oGood team worker
  • oHighly motivated
  • oWillingness to develop skills and knowledge

Qualifications

Essential

  • oGood standard of secondary education including GCE/GCSE English or equivalent
  • oGood computerskills of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point)
  • oExperience of note taking
  • oAbility to tabulate information and input data

Desirable

  • oNVQ level 3 in business and administration, or clerical or equivalent experience
Person Specification

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

Essential

  • oPrevious NHS experience
  • oExperience of office systems
  • oExperience of dealing with confidential issues
  • oPrevious experience of secretarial/administrative work
  • oProven ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines
  • oProven organisational skills
  • oExperience of organising and supporting meetings within an organisation

Desirable

  • oMedical terminology

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

  • oAttention to detail
  • oMethodical and well organised
  • oProven ability to prioritise demanding workload

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

Essential

  • oGood communication skills - oral, written and telephone
  • oGood customer care skills
  • oEnjoys handling routine tasks

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

Essential

  • oFriendly outgoing personality
  • oCustomer orientated approach
  • oReliable and ability to use own initiative
  • oAbility to work without direct supervision
  • oFlexible and adaptable to changing situations
  • oGood team worker
  • oHighly motivated
  • oWillingness to develop skills and knowledge

Qualifications

Essential

  • oGood standard of secondary education including GCE/GCSE English or equivalent
  • oGood computerskills of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point)
  • oExperience of note taking
  • oAbility to tabulate information and input data

Desirable

  • oNVQ level 3 in business and administration, or clerical or equivalent experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham Children's Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH


Employer's website

https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham Children's Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH


Employer's website

https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Operational Support Manager

Amy Winsper

amy.winsper@nhs.net

01213338198

Details

Date posted

22 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

284-25-7600277-DMUT-B

Job locations

Birmingham Children's Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH


Supporting documents

Privacy notice

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)