Senior Business Administrator – Scientific

Job summary

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we bring together scientific expertise, research innovation and compassionate care to support our life saving mission. As Senior Business Administrator within the Chief Scientific Office, you will play a central role in helping our national functions operate smoothly and effectively, ensuring every team has the support they need to deliver outstanding work for patients, donors and communities.

In this role, you will provide high quality administrative support to senior leaders across Research Governance, Knowledge & Library Services, and the Inclusive Culture & Health Inequalities Division. You will coordinate key meetings and committees, manage complex schedules, prepare clear documentation, and act as a trusted point of contact across NHSBT and with external partners. Your work will help bring together the information, insights and activity that underpin our scientific and operational excellence. By applying your organisational expertise, attention to detail and ability to navigate competing priorities, you will help ensure our teams remain connected, efficient and focused on delivering the best possible outcomes.

Guided by our values of being Caring, Expert and providing Quality, you will be part of a team that supports the scientific foundations of NHSBTs life saving services. Your contribution will help us operate effectively, drive progress, and ensure we can continue to save and improve lives every day.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing a comprehensive personal assistant service and acting as a central source of communication between the Manager and Senior Managers in the function and individuals across NHSBT and relevant external organisations.
• Working flexibly with other PAs and administrative staff to ensure continuity of cover and support to the manager(s) during periods of staff absence or heavy workloads.
• Maintaining specialist expertise and knowledge to support activity across the Function e.g. regulatory compliance, the advancement of operational improvements, coordination of major procurement exercises and/or support for business development initiatives.
• Providing management and administrative capacity across the designated team, including the management of the PAs within the team.
• Supporting and co-ordinating business initiatives using project management tools.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.