Monday, October 27, 2025
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Admin Team Leader/Senior Secretary

Posted: 5 days ago

Job Description

Due to career development, we have a vacancy for an Admin Team Lead/Senior Secretary.Working within a busy, dynamic Community Paediatric Service, based at Universal Square, you’ll work in a great team . You’ll receive an induction programme, full training and have the opportunity for ongoing learning and development.This is an important role within the service and you will utilise your strong leadership, communication and organisational skills to ensure the smooth running of the safeguarding clinics. With experience of working within an office environment you'll have excellent secretarial and Microsoft Office IT skills and be familiar with audio/digital dictation. Knowledge and experience of safeguarding will be advantageous.Come and join our supportive team and we’ll support you to develop and excel in your role.To co-ordinate, supervise and provide line management to the administration team, ensuring the efficient, effective and high quality administration functions within the service. To ensure the smooth running of the locality and special school clinics.Provide secretarial support to the consultant community paediatricians.To develop, coordinate and maintain reporting systems within the service. MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Susan Meredith Job title: Operational Service Manager/Admin Cluster Lead Email address: susan.meredith@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07890 299203

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