Administration Team Leader | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Company: | University College London Hospital |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £38,488 - £46,852 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | London, NW1 2BU |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Posting date: | 2 Jul 2026 |
| Closing date: | 2 Aug 2026 |
Summary
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), a complex UK NHS trust, is seeking a dynamic, enthusiastic, and self-motivated Administration Team Leader to join the Haematology team. This role involves providing supervision and leadership to an outpatient administration team to ensure a high-quality, effective, and efficient service focused on positive patient experience.
The post holder will offer expert administrative support to multidisciplinary clinical teams, guiding them through complex pathways and monitoring waiting lists and service capacity to meet targets. Contributions to service improvement initiatives and the strategic direction of the administration service are key. Essential duties also include managing complex booking issues, ensuring accurate data capture, and overseeing team development and rota management.
The ideal candidate will be proactive, driven, and highly motivated, demonstrating strong engagement and support for colleagues.
The post holder leads and supervises a specialty administration team, ensuring a high‑quality, efficient patient administrative service that supports clinical pathways and excellent patient experience. The role involves overseeing waiting lists and RTT performance, coordinating appointments and referrals, resolving complex queries and complaints, and acting as the point of contact between patients, clinicians and managers. The Team Leader is responsible for staff management, training and performance, data quality and reporting, and contributes to service improvement, capacity management and change initiatives across the specialty.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
*UCLH top trust to work at in England- In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit:Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit:Why Choose UCLH?
This advert closes on Thursday 16 Jul 2026
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