We have an exciting opportunity for an efficient and motivated individual to play a pivotal role within the management team. We are looking for an experienced leader who can provide visible accessible leadership, support, guidance supervision to a team of secretarial, administration and clerical staff within the Surgical Directorate. The successful candidate will be responsible for the day to day smooth operations of services, ensuring appropriate planning, coaching and mentoring and performance management of over 100 Secretarial and Admin staff.
You should have previous admin/ secretarial and supervisory experience, and possess excellent communication, organisation and problem solving skills. You should be familiar with NHS Waiting Times, and have knowledge of HR policies and Procedures, including absence management.
In addition, you should possess leadership skills necessary to develop teams, being assertive, whilst exercising diplomacy. You should be able to work under pressure and to deadlines, and be flexible in your approach. You should be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team. The ability to travel between sites is essential. A level of English language competency and communication skills necessary to perform this role safely and effectively is also required
Informal Enquiries: Linda Hutchison, Assistant Service Manager. Tel 015952 643355 x 21932
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
As from 1/4/2026, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. Please note that the pay scale in this advert will not be changing as a result.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licensed Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or 'going rate'. Further information on these criteria can be foundhere. It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.
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