Admin Lead Medical Advisor Fostering/Adoption

2 weeks ago


Hereford Herefordshire, United Kingdom Wales Medicines Strategy Group Full time
Admin Lead Medical Advisor Fostering/Adoption (INTERNAL) Band 4 Job overview

An exciting and rare opportunity has become available to join a dynamic and innovative Administration Team supporting the health of Children in Care and those Children with a plan for adoption.

Main duties of the job

To provide full administrative support and leadership to the Children in Care Health Team to ensure that the health pathway for children and young people in care and those being adopted is maintained within statutory timescales by working with Designated Paediatricians, Medical Advisor for Fostering and Adoption and by working with multiagency professionals using a variety of electronic patient systems

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification Education & Qualifications
  • GCSE in English and Mathematics or equivalent
  • Level 3 Business Administration, equivalent of theoretical knowledge through experience and/or relevant qualifications.
  • RSA Stage 3 Typing/Word Processing or equivalent
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Experience of arranging meetings and taking formal minutes
  • Ability to deal with difficult situations empathetically
  • Experience of working within budgets and co-ordinating financial costings.
  • Excellent organisational skills
Experience
  • Previous secretarial experience or equivalent
  • Previous experience dealing with the public and variety of professionals outside of the NHS
  • Diary Management
Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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