Team Leader | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

To provide comprehensive and efficient supervision of the administration function within Acute Children's Services.

To ensure the service is sufficiently staffed, 365 days per year, throughout the services operating hours including evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

The postholder will be required to work shifts within the services operating hours on a rostered basis and may be required to backfill and cover shifts at short notice from time to time due to instances such as unplanned leave and unexpected absence.

The postholder will be required to demonstrate a significant level of initiative in organising their own workload and taking decisions and actions.

To provide effective contribution and ownership to support the delivery of the organisations objectives.

To complete regular one to ones, appraisals and team meetings to help set clear goals and create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture.

To process, review, approve and record staff annual leave requests.

Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role and participate in appropriate training activities and support development and training needs.

To manage staff absence and sickness in accordance with the Trust's sickness policy by monitoring and exploring reasons for absence in a supportive manner.

To work closely with the Directorate Management Team to ensure consistency of services, processes and best practice across Children's Services.

To ensure strong and robust communication of processes between all colleagues within the service as needed, via various communication channels.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

To provide administrative support to the Acute Children's Services team, to include all administrative procedures and documentation associated with a patients attendance/admission to hospital.

This advert closes on Friday 12 Jun 2026