Business Support Team Leader - RedhillAs a Business Support Team Leader, you will be part of our valued team within our Surrey Child and Family Health Services, with access to:Salary starting from £26,250 with access to our group pensionFree tea, coffee and milk at your base locationMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counsellingAccess to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning EnterpriseAn open and just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.Job IntroductionWe are looking for a proactive, organised and people-focused Business Support Team Leader to play a key role in the smooth running and continued development of our Surrey Child & Family Health Services.As we implement an enhanced service model and a strengthened Single Point of Access (SPA) approach across Surrey, this is an exciting time to join us. You will work closely with senior leaders to help embed and promote the SPA model, ensuring families, partners and clinicians experience a clear, coordinated and responsive route into our services.In this leadership role, you will provide day-to-day line management to a team of administrative staff, ensuring workloads are effectively organised and that performance, attendance and appraisals are delivered to a high standard.You will oversee administrative operations within the locality, supporting the Business Support and SPA teams to work efficiently, consistently and collaboratively to meet the needs of children, young people, families and our frontline clinical teams. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will maintain your own administrative workload and may provide cover within the wider Business Support team when required.Our Business Support function is central to the success of the service, delivering high-quality organisational and administrative support across a wide range of office and service activities. You will be part of a committed, forward-thinking team helping to shape a positive and effective experience for the families and professionals we support.BaseThe Single Point of Access function supports our Surrey-wide service, and you will be based at our Orchard House Office in Redhill, Surrey with the opportunity for hybrid working.Main ResponsibilitiesProvide effective day-to-day line management to administrative staff, including regular supervision, one-to-ones, absence management, appraisals, training and workload allocation.Communicate clearly, professionally and confidentially with internal and external stakeholders.Work closely with managers and senior practitioners to ensure statutory and service timescales are consistently met.Manage and action verbal and written communications, ensuring information is shared accurately and promptly.Represent the Business Support function at a range of meetings and contribute actively to discussions and service development.Use sound judgement to make decisions, identifying when issues require escalation to senior colleagues.Support recruitment activities, including shortlisting, interviewing and onboarding of new team members as directed by the Business Support Manager.Prioritise your own workload while ensuring the team’s tasks are managed effectively within a busy and fast-paced environment.Ideal CandidateEssential:Good general education to at least GCSE level or equivalent, including Maths and English.Qualification in supervisory or line management / relevant experience to NVQ 4 or equivalent level.Administrative experience in a busy, customer facing environment.Line management experience.Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines.High levels of computer literacy – to include a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages incusing Outlook, Word, Excel.Ability to work as part of a team.Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.Ability to work with discretion, sensitivity and maintain confidentiality.Ability to prioritise and manage own workload and that of the team, in a busy environment.Experience of HR processes. Desirable Previous health or social care experience. Knowledge of clinical systems or databasesOther requirements: the successful applicant will need to be a car driverPlease see attached Job Description for full Personal SpecificationAbout the CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.