Job summary
Employer heading
Quality Governance Team Administrator
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
Following the promotion of a member of our team, the Quality Governance Team is looking for an organised, enthusiastic, and hardworking person to join our well-established team as a Governance Team Administrator.
Main duties of the job
This is a great opportunity for somebody to work in a busy administrative role with a keen interest in risk and quality governance within a healthcare setting. In this role there will be a diverse range of work, including minute taking and supporting committee meetings, email management, producing reports, project work and supporting financial and HR processes. You will quickly become a crucial part of many governance processes and get to experience all areas of the Quality Governance team from Risk Management, Audit and Effectiveness, Incident Reporting and Investigation, Health and Safety, Information Governance and Legal services.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Maths/English equivalent C or 4 grade and above
Desirable criteria
- OCR/RSA II typing, or relevant experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Computer literate
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes
Desirable criteria
- Secretarial or Administrative skills
- Data entry experience
- Working in a healthcare setting
Analytical and Judgement
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate a willingness to become a competent meeting minute taker
Desirable criteria
- Ability to recognise and escalate key incoming data (queries, mail, email, etc) to relevant manager
- Experience maintaining stationery stocks, and other office resources
Personal Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Flexibility to changing priorities
- Good organisational skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Team worker
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Appreciation of the importance of confidentiality
- Can demonstrate having worked to deadlines
- Ability to work on own initiative
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Galligan
- Job title
- Deputy Risk Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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