Reception Team Lead | Administration/Reception/Customer Service | Sutton | Full time | Permanent | 37.5 hours Spire St Anthony's Hospital is currently looking to recruit for an Reception Team Lead to join the team on a full time and permanent basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic team and have a great impact. Contract type: Permanent, Full time Duties & Responsibilities (not limited to): - Working varied reception shifts in a hands- on capacity, supporting and overseeing the team - Promotion of Spire's Purpose, vision, mission, values and behaviours - Managing time cards, sickness, annual leave, and other absence whilst ensuring optimum cover at all times. - Preparation of rotas, flexing staff in line with business requirements and within budgetary targets. - Setting annual EE objectives for each team member, holding and documenting regular 1:1 meetings as well as team briefs - Actively involved in recruitment, training and induction - Achieving KPI targets as set by central Spire - To carry out departmental audits and ensure compliance, including DSE, Health and safety and staff mandatory training. - To undertake Datix incident investigations - To represent the department at various meetings, including Patient Experience, driving improvements and implementing change - Actively participating in the promotion of good communication and liaison with other hospital departments. - Undertake all work in accordance with company hospital policies and procedures. Ensuring familiarity with the Health and Safety at Work Act, including manual handling and fire procedures. - To maintain confidentiality of all information in line with GDPR regulations with regard to patients, consultants and staff - To ensure the reception environment projects a professional, smart image at all times including staff adherence to hospital uniform policy - To try to resolve any patient complaints relating to the reception service in the first instance or to escalate via the appropriate channel. What do you need to have? - Educated to Higher Education level - Excellent numeracy, literacy and IT Skills - Minimum 2 years leadership experience in a highly customer service focussed role - Proven people management experience within a medium sized team - Excellent organisation and communication skills - Outstanding customer care skills with the ability to handle difficult situations - Emotional resilience, able to hold difficult conversations - The ability to manage change - Someone who can drive customer service Benefits We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to: - 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays - Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options - 'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers - Private medical insurance - Subsidised Meals - Life assurance - Free DBS - Free Car park Our Values We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation: - Driving clinical excellence - Doing the right thing - Caring is our passion - Keeping it simple - Delivering on our promises - Succeeding and celebrating together Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart. We commit to our employee's well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward. Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people. Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications