CHIS Team Leader

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.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Gregory Job title: Service Lead Email address: ***email_hidden***