About the role
The Clinical Administration Team Lead will manage and support the clinical administrative service across our Adult Hospices; St Barnabas and Martlets. They will ensure that high-quality, efficient and responsive administrative systems are in place to support clinical teams in delivering outstanding, patient‑centred end‑of‑life care. They’ll lead a dedicated team, oversee service performance, maintain robust clinical records, and play a key role in ensuring compliance with governance, safeguarding and regulatory requirements.
Key duties and responsibilities
* Lead and develop a multi‑site clinical administration team, managing rotas, workload, recruitment, induction, appraisals and ongoing development
* Oversee day‑to‑day clinical administration services, ensuring robust systems, business continuity and consistent, high standards across all adult services
* Champion effective use of clinical systems, including electronic patient records, access management, NHS Smartcards and external clinical platforms
* Drive service improvement, reviewing and streamlining administrative processes, developing SOPs and contributing to projects and change initiatives
* Work collaboratively and compassionately, building strong relationships with clinical teams, families and external contacts while upholding governance, safeguarding and data protection standards
About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in‑patient care and community living well services.
Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life‑limiting conditions.
Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.
Benefits
* Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
* Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
* On‑site education support and study leave opportunities
* Option to access Medicash and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
* Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
* Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Death in Service
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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