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Job summary

Main area
Administration Breast Unit
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours working, working hours to cover 8-8, 7 days per week)
Job ref
345-RAD6197227
Employer
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
University Hospital of North Tees
Town
Stockon
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 Pro rata Per annum - Salary is dependant on experience
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
31/05/2024

Employer heading

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust logo

Breast Services Office Manager

NHS AfC: Band 5

We are on a continuous journey of improvement and transformation , however our main priority is, and always will be, providing safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. If you share our passion then apply for this opportunity and help us make our patients’ experience the best it can possibly be.

With a budget of around £365m, three hospitals and 5,500 staff, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital-based services to the population of Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees and parts of East Durham and Sedgefield as well as community, therapeutic and screening to a wider population across Durham and Teesside.

Job overview

** This vacancy may  close early once sufficient applications have been received. **

We are looking for a friendly individual with a positive approach, to work as part of the team in the Breast Unit.  Suitably qualified applicants are invited to apply for the post of Breast Services Office Manager, joining a dedicated team of staff providing administrative support to the Department.   The Breast Screening Service  invites approximately 50,000 clients per year for well woman breast screening and also provides a Breast Symptomatic Service.  

Working hours are between 8am-8pm, 7 days per week.

A flexible approach to work within the core hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am to 6.00pm. 

Main duties of the job

Under the direction of the Breast Service Manager, the post holder will be responsible for the management of the screening and symptomatic office and the administrative function of the service.

Directly manage and be responsible for breast services administration, secretarial and clerical staff.

 

 

Working for our organisation

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones.

We want our organisation to be the best place to work  with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development.  Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Starts and Service Awards.

We actively encourage staff involvement with staff networking events and staff survey.

Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post holder will be invaluable to the Breast Screening & Symptomatic Service directly responsible for facilitating the administration service. 

To undertake the management responsibility of Breast Services Admin and Clerical staff.

Liaise with Breast Services lead and  Lead  band 7s about clinical service needs.

Provide a central administrative base to facilitate the organisation and collection of all data, implementing new information technologies where appropriate.

Attending Quality Assurance Regional Meetings representing the Administrative discipline for the Trust, with the National Breast Screening Service.

Provide a breast screening statistics support function to the Clinical Director and other service managers and health care professionals and produce annual KC62 report information.

Administrator for the client based National Breast Screening System computer system used in the breast unit in conjunction with IT and Hitachi, ensuring daily and weekly back ups of the systems are carried out.  Responsible for the other client based systems used in the breast unit, CRIS for radiology, Trak care for hospital system and various Access local databases.

To ensure the day-to-day maintenance of the Breast Screening computer network.  Ensuring transfers and receipts are timely and complete.

A Job description and personal specification is attached to this advert.

Person specification

Qualifications and Attainmnets

Essential criteria
  • GCSE at grade C or above in Mathematics Key Skills at level 2 in Numeracy (or equivalent)
  • GCSE at grade C or above in English Language, or Key Skills at level 2 in Literacy (or equivalent
  • NVQ at level 3 in Business Administration (or equivalent)
  • Typing or word processing qualification
  • Management qualification or significant experinence
Desirable criteria
  • IT qualification
  • Typing or word processing qualification at RSA III (or equivalent)
  • AMSPAR Advanced Diploma for medical Secretaries Level 3 qualification or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable experience of a wide range of IT systems
  • Demonstrable experience of supervising and directing, motivating a mixed skilled team of admin and clerical staff
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working within a healthcare environment
  • Knowledge of National Breast Screening Programme
  • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Knowledge of medical terminology

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate ability to pay good attention to detail, reliably check and record data and identify anomalies and be able to self-check completed work.
  • Demonstrate well developed keyboard skills
  • Demonstrate well developed written/verbal/listening communication skills
  • Demonstrate good organisational / time management skills and be able work under pressure to meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrate willingness to contribute to the delivery of an effective and efficient administrative/secretarial service.
  • Demonstrate willingness to be flexible and to work in other clinical areas throughout the trust as and when required in accordance with operational service needs.
Desirable criteria
  • Be willing to participate in the promotion of effective team working.
  • Demonstrate willingness to develop team by proactively seeking appropriate training and development opportunities for them
  • Be proactive in contributing to service improvement

Disposition

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work under pressure/meet tight deadlines whilst delivering high quality work
  • Flexibility – able to cope with different work environments
  • Demonstrate a responsible, dependable and honest character and a caring and sensitive nature.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Maria Maddison
Job title
Breast Symptomatic and Screening services Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01642 624249
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