Band 4 Clinical Services Lead Administrator - Bristol
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,485.00 to £30,162.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £27485.00 - £30162.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 August 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS16 2EW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9342-25-0693 |
Summary
Liaise with a wide range of stakeholders, both internal to the organisation and external, including: Medical Staff. Multidisciplinary Teams (outreach or Inpatient). Services Users and Carers. Health and Social Care teams. Third sector/voluntary agencies. Community groups and local authority provision. Other statutory agencies e.g. Police, Ministry of Justice etc. Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with a wide range of people, including outside agencies, sometimes requiring tact and persuasive skills where there may be barriers to understanding or agreement. Exchange verbal and written information with patients, staff and carers relating to appointments, admissions and meetings etc. Provide and receive routine and complicated information, including dealing with enquiries from external stakeholders and the public. This may include sensitive information. Work within a multi-disciplinary environment ensuring that communication with appropriate team members is effective. To receive and open mail (paper and electronic as necessary) and distribute/despatch accordingly ensuring appropriate action is taken with high priority items. To manage both telephone and face to face contacts with distressed service users in a supportive and empathetic manner. Exercise judgement when dealing with patient inquires, analyse and resolve non-clinical patient problems including resolving conflicting diary appointments or schedules, clinics, meetings, tribunals etc. Manage the organisation of key meetings including business meetings and conferences, grievance hearings etc. and compile and prepare agendas and supporting papers for meetings. Type patient reports/correspondence/e-mails as required, deal with telephone/face to face enquiries from patients. Input accurate and up to date patient data onto the RiO system. Interpret and advise on data and office management functions and implement relevant procedures. Consider line management issues and decide on a course of action to be taken. Day to Day line management of Clinical Services Administrators as required: Carry out supervision sessions on a monthly basis. Undertake appraisals. Provide immediate guidance and assistance in problem solving. Agree/monitor absences in regard to annual leave, flexi time, sickness. Workload management. Prepare and present reports and a range of complex information in a range of formats including the production of scorecards, KPIs, performance reports and ad-hoc reports. Ensure that appropriate systems are developed and maintained to prompt bring forward information or follow-up that is required for appointments, meetings and projects etc. and for outstanding work that has been requested by a certain deadline. Take and distribute formal minutes as necessary. Authorised signatory for small payments, timesheets. Set up and manage effective office. Management/filing systems to support the service delivery. May need to arrange rotas/staff cover. Plans own workload to ensure that weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual tasks are met. Prioritise workload with particular consideration to issues arising and responding to shifting priorities appropriately. Assist patients during incidental contact, to provide non-clinical advice or information to patients/relatives or carers.