Job overview

Are you a skilled and experienced leader with a passion for driving excellence in health administration? Join the Integrated Learning Disabilities Service (ILDS) as our Health Administration Manager, where your expertise will directly support the delivery of high-quality care to individuals with learning disabilities.

In this pivotal role, you will lead and manage a dedicated team of administrative and secretarial staff across ILDS, ensuring seamless, efficient, and effective support for our health professionals. Your leadership will be key to maintaining robust administrative systems that enable clinical teams to focus on delivering outstanding care.

Hosted by the London Borough of Enfield, ILDS is a collaborative, multidisciplinary service committed to improving lives. As Health Administration Manager, you will be seconded to work within this dynamic environment, fostering strong relationships across teams and services.

Main duties of the job

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Overseeing the performance and development of health administration staff across ILDS.
• Ensuring the delivery of a responsive and high-quality administrative support network.
• Managing communications with GPs, consultants, clinical departments, and external partners.
• Upholding confidentiality and GDPR standards in all interactions.
• Supporting patients, families, and visitors with professionalism and empathy.
• Collaborating with colleagues to ensure continuity of service and accurate monthly reporting.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in staff management, administration, and project coordination.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational abilities and confidence working with digital systems.
• Proficiency in MS Office and other relevant software packages.
• A proactive, solution-focused mindset with a commitment to service excellence.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a supportive and forward-thinking team. If you're ready to bring your leadership and administrative expertise to a role that truly matters—we’d love to hear from you.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
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In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.