Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.
We’re looking for an Admin Team Leader to oversee a dynamic team and drive excellence across our service.
The Child Health Information Service (CHIS) plays a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of children and young people across Kent and Medway. We manage and provide high-quality child health data, working in partnership with NHS teams, schools, GP practices, and local authorities to ensure effective care from birth through to age 19.
Our service is delivered across three dedicated areas:
Newborn Screening – recording key health checks within the first year of life
Pre-School – tracking immunisations and developmental checks up to school age
School-Age – supporting health records through to early adulthood
From receiving birth notifications and informing health visitors, to managing screening programmes such as blood spot testing, hearing checks and NIPE assessments, our team ensures every child’s health journey is accurately recorded. We also coordinate immunisations and developmental reviews, ensuring seamless communication between healthcare providers and families.
Join us and be part of a service that makes a real difference from day one.
Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship. Therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.
In this role, you’ll supervise day-to-day operations, coordinate workloads, and ensure performance and motivation remain high. You’ll play a key role in shaping efficient administrative processes while fostering a collaborative, supportive team environment.
Key responsibilities include:
Line management of an administrative team, including appraisals, absence, and performance management
Coordinating and allocating workloads to meet service priorities
Implementing and improving administrative processes in line with service requirements
Reviewing, collating and managing data to ensure accuracy and timeliness
Producing and analysing regular and ad-hoc reports for stakeholders
About you:
You’re a confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills, an innovative mindset, and the ability to multitask effectively. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy influencing positive change.
Join and help shape a professional, high-performing administrative service.
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent .
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.
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As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via
[email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Find out more about the community difference here .
Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
