We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, reliable and highly motivated Admin Team Manager to join our growing team.
This is a hands‑on, dual role combining administrative duties with the day‑to‑day supervision of a small admin team of 5. You will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of administrative processes, supporting colleagues with workload management and workflow organisation. You will act as a senior point of contact within the team and take responsibility for overseeing day‑to‑day team activity and workload allocation, helping to prioritise and organise daily work while working closely with the senior management team.
Alongside team coordination, you will remain actively involved in core administrative duties, including clinical correspondence, coding, scanning, task management, and patient registrations/deductions, ensuring all work is completed in line with practice procedures.
This work is of a highly confidential nature and no information, either medical or personal, should be disclosed outside of Practice personnel.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who shares our commitment to delivering high quality patient care, and who has the interest and energy to join with us and help develop services to be truly outstanding.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
* Be flexible in approach
* Be professional at all times with a kind and caring disposition that satisfies the needs of our patient cohort.
* Be able to respond to the various demands and challenging circumstances of general practice.
* Have strong organisational skills and can prioritise workload effectively.
* Have a good education with qualifications and/or practical experience in the relevant areas.
* Have experience of working in a busy administrative environment and working under pressure.
* Have good knowledge of medical terminology and clinical systems (e.g. EMIS).
* Have experience with clinical coding and/or summarising.
* Be confident supporting colleagues and coordinating day‑to‑day activity.
* Have excellent communication, IT, and problem‑solving skills.
About us
We are a large forward‑thinking paperless Practice of 18,500 patients, based in excellent modern purpose‑built premises. Our strength lies in the diversity of skills and professional interests within our team. We have a multidisciplinary clinical team made up of Doctors, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, First Contact Physios, Health Care Assistants, Nurse Associates, Health and Wellbeing Coach and Social Prescribers. We are committed to facilitating ongoing continuing professional development.
The role offers NHS Pension as well as generous annual leave of up to 6 weeks plus bank holidays per year.
We reserve the right to close vacancies early; therefore, we recommend you apply as soon as possible in order to ensure you do not miss the closing date.
Job responsibilities
Responsible for: The postholder is responsible for the smooth and efficient running of the admin function. They will also provide support to the wider staff body. The postholder will help to maintain a happy and committed team.
Job Purpose:
The postholder will supervise and be part of a team of admin staff. As well as undertaking duties to cover workflow of all clinical correspondence, coding, scanning, managing tasks and all aspects of the registration process, the team leader will be responsible for overseeing the daily duties of the team, allocating work, undertaking regular one‑to‑one meetings, coordinating annual leave in line with practice policy and supporting return‑to‑work processes.
The postholder will work strictly in accordance with the practice admin and workflow protocols and timescales.
Strong communication and customer service skills will be required with the ability to adapt to a busy NHS setting.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.
Person Specification
Experience
* Practical experience of team leading an administrative and customer focused team.
* At least 3 years recent experience of working with electronic filing systems within a GP Practice.
* At least 12 months experience of working with a supervisory role, preferably within a GP Practice environment.
Qualifications
* Good secondary experience, with high level of English.
* A demonstrable commitment to professional development.
* Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and, as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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