Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Theatres and Critical Care Directorate for an enthusiastic, positive, dynamic and proactive individual to join the team as an Administration Manager to help provide robust and consistent line management, operational management and HR support to our administrative workforce, whilst working closely with the directorate management team to help deliver transformational change and improve day to day performance.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking for a challenge and enjoys working as part of a team.

Main duties of the job

This role provides an exciting opportunity for someone who has excellent organisational and interpersonal skills to support the Theatres and Anaesthetics Directorate in the line management of administrative staff in the following departments:

• Theatres
• Anaesthetics
• Day Case
• Endoscopy
• Community Dentistry
• Pre-op
• ITU
• Chronic Pain Service

The successful candidate will also work with the administrative teams and the Deputy General Manager to support operational functions within the directorate such as; medical staffing; theatre scheduling and capacity and demand planning.

In addition to these responsibilities the successful candidate will also work closely with the administrative teams and Deputy General Manager to deliver specific key performance indicators (KPIs) and ensure departments within the directorate are working in line with national and local guidance to facilitate high quality care. These KPIs include:

• Theatre and endoscopy utilisation
• JAG administration to support JAG accreditation
• 14 day, 28 day and 62 day cancer pathway targets
• RTT and 52 weeks targets
• 6 week endoscopy targets
• The management of the endoscopy surveillance waiting list
• Data Quality
• Anaesthetic workforce planning
• HR KPI's such as; sickness; staff turnover; appraisals; bank spend

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.