Team Leader - Rugby, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

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An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen to join the Midlands and NW Bowel Screening Hub as a Team Leader.


The national Bowel Cancer Screening programme has 5 Hubs and the Midlands and North West Hub is located at Rugby St Cross Hospital.

The Hub is a very busy Department with three distinct work areas - helpline; packing room and laboratory. The Team Leaders are part of the Management Team and support the operational running of the service.

In addition they oversee all three areas of the Department to facilitate the smooth running of the work being carried out there.


  • To directly supervise and manage a team of Senior Screening Administrators, Screening Administrators and Hub Development Administrators including leave requests, individual risk assessments, management of sickness to Stage One targets, referral to Occupational Health and management of reasonable adjustments to work.
  • Complete annual appraisals for Senior Screening Administrators and regular 1:1 reviews.
  • Plan workflow by completing a weekly staff rota. Liaise closely with Assistant Laboratory Managers, Operations and Quality Manager and Hub Manager to ensure service delivery goals are achieved by working flexibly and responsively across all areas of the Department
to balance their needs and allocate resources appropriately.


The working hours will be on a shift rotation of alternate weeks Mon - Friday 8am - 4pm and Mon - Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm.


  • Please be advised that interviews for this role are due to take place 28th march 2023


We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.


Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.


We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellencedesignated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award.

Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire )


By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities.

There has never been a better time to join our team.


The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society.

We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care.

We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.


  • To supervise the day to day operations of the Midlands and North West Bowel Screening Hub in delivering the national Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. The work extends across three areas - Helpline; Packing room and Laboratory and the Team Leader is key to balancing the needs of each area against the Service Delivery requirements of the whole Department.
  • The Team Leader works collaboratively with the Senior Management Team to implement work flow strategies as directed but also works with a degree of autonomy to feedback on the position against targets and standards and seek guidance on how to best respond to these.
  • The role involves responding to and where possible resolving queries escalated by Senior Screening Administrators as well as acting as a source of advice and guidance regarding the programme to partners and members of the public.
  • The Team Leader ensures positive partnership working is maintained with the 15 Screening Centres associated with the Hub.
  • Complete initial non-conformity reviews as directed by Operations and Quality Manager ensuring a supportive approach is adopted by identifying any process changes or individual staff needs and assess options to meet these.
  • Support the work of the Quality Team in an advisory capacity through weekly meetings.
  • Responsible for the completion of Hub audits as directed including checking of all cease requests before passing to Hub Manager / Hub Director for sign off and 3rd party kit request audit.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

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