Team Leader | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 Per Annum / Pro Rata
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Oxford, OX3 9DU
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	20 Aug 2026
Closing date:	19 Sept 2026

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Summary

We are #OneTeamOneOUH

Are you passionate about making a positive impact in the healthcare industry? Do you thrive in a dynamic and compassionate environment? If so, we have exciting opportunities for you!

Our clinical support patient facing administration workforce is vital to our organisation, without them our front-line Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professional cannot deliver the excellent care to our patients we strive for. As a support to our clinical workforce within the Divisions you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our hospital wards.

Your efforts will directly contribute to the well-being and comfort of our patients, making you an integral part of their healthcare journey.

The Team Leader is responsible for the delivery and oversight of a professional, comprehensive, and efficient administrative service, ensuring it is consistently delivered to all patients and members of the Department. This includes leading and supporting the administrative team, ensuring standardisation of processes, and maintaining a high-quality, responsive service.

The role involves coordinating and supervising the full administrative function for a specialty team, including providing operational support to consultant teams and ensuring effective management of patient pathways. The Team Leader has responsibility for ensuring pathways are actively managed in line with the Trust’s Elective Access Policy, supporting the achievement of RTT and other performance standards, and proactively addressing risks to patient flow, data quality, and service delivery.

The post holder will also be responsible for supporting staff development, managing workload distribution, and driving continuous improvement to enhance both service efficiency and patient experience.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to theten core principles

Oxford University Hospitalspromotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Leadership and Team Management

• Lead, support, and supervise the administrative team, acting as thefirst point of contactfor staff and operational queries.

• Allocate workloads effectively and ensure appropriateservice cover during absences.

• Provide training, mentorship, and development opportunities, ensuring staff are competent and supported in their roles.

• Manage recruitment, appraisals, and performance issues in line with Trust policies.

Patient Pathway Management

• Take responsibility fortracking patients through the 18-week referral-to-treatment pathwayand ensuring compliance with Trust access targets.

• Monitor waiting lists, identify long waiters, and escalate risks or potential breaches to senior managers.

• Ensure patients are scheduled and treated within required timeframes, including urgent and suspected cancer pathways.

Service Delivery and Performance

• Oversee the delivery of ahigh-quality, efficient administrative servicesupporting the full patient pathway.

• Monitor team performance, capacity, and activity, taking timely action to address service pressures.

• Support delivery of key performance targets and contribute toweekly performance reviews and escalation processes.

Communication and Stakeholder Working

• Build strong working relationships withconsultants, clinical teams, and multidisciplinary colleagues.

• Act as a key point of contact for patients, providing non-clinical advice and escalating concerns where required.

• Represent the service at meetings and ensure clear communication of actions and outcomes to the team.

Quality, Governance, and Improvement

• Ensuredata accuracy and qualityacross all patient administration systems.

• Contribute to the investigation of complaints, identifying trends and supporting service improvements.

• Work with management and clinical leads to identify and implementservice development initiatives.

This advert closes on Thursday 3 Sep 2026

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