# Assistant Service Manager - A&E Department

**Company**: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £38,488 to £46,852 a year p.a inc HCA
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Secondment or Fixed Term Band 5 Assistant Service Manager within the Emergency Department for 10 months.

The successful candidate must be proactive in their approach, with good problem-solving abilities and a flexible, can-do approach to resolve issues within the Emergency Floor.

The role will support the Service Manager to deliver operational targets, monitor performance, and directly line manage a team of administrators. The successful candidate will have excellent data and staff management along with analytical skills.

The post holder will be responsible for the management of a team or teams of staff including service delivery personnel, medical secretaries and other groups of staff. The post holder will need to deliver a high level of administrative support to the clinical team(s).

Key responsibilities include:

- Supporting the Service Manager in delivering against targets in a range of service areas

- Directly line managing a team of administrators

- Providing a high level of administrative support to the clinical team(s)

- Monitoring performance and contributing to the delivery of operational targets

Requirements:

- Educated to HNC/Equivalent Diploma/equivalent experience

- GCSE Maths & English

- Track record of significant continuous professional and management development

- Leadership and influencing skills

- Strong verbal and written skills

- Highly motivated and ability to work independently

- Ability to respond to changing demands

- Significant experience of staff supervision/staff management including recruitment/retention/appraisal/first-line disciplinary and knowledge of budget management issues

- Experience of delivering Administrative and Clerical Services

Desirable skills:

- Financial management and analysis skills

The post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Skills

### Required
- Leadership
- Influencing skills
- Strong verbal and written skills
- Problem-solving abilities
- Data management
- Analytical skills
- Staff management
- Budget management

### Nice to have
- Financial management and analysis skills

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