# Assistant Service Manager - A&E Department > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-service-manager-aande-department/21226c7b-f0d1-4e2c-b839-fdc9cc7e430f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-service-manager-aande-department/21226c7b-f0d1-4e2c-b839-fdc9cc7e430f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Thomas' Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Service manager - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 p.a inc HCA - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 10 months (or Secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-10T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-28T13:33:00.246Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/AE/AE-v8347893 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8347893?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Secondment or Fixed Term Band 5 Assistant Service Manager within the Emergency Department for 10 months. The successful candidate must be proactive in their approach, with good problem solving abilities and flexible, can do approach to resolve issues within the Emergency Floor. We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic and innovative individual with excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships across a multi-professional team and be able to adapt to an evolving service in order to ensure the continuous delivery of high quality patient care. ### Main duties of the job This role will support the Service Manager to deliver operational targets, monitor performance, and directly line manage a team of administrators. The successful candidate will have excellent data and staff management along with analytical skills . The Successful applicant must be able to lead and motivate teams with a high degree of self-motivation, have an experience of people management and a keen attention to detail. The post holder must be IT literate and have the ability to navigate trust IT systems. The individual should be adaptable, have excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, excellent communication and problem-solving abilities. The ability to multi task and use initiative in a busy environment is essential. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities This role is to support the Service Manager in delivering against targets in a range of service areas. This role will be operationally based and will be working towards supporting our teams and our National targets The post holder will be responsible for the management of a team or teams of staff including service delivery personnel, medical secretaries and other groups of staff. The post holder will need deliver to offer a high level of administrative support to the clinical team(s). ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Leadership and influencing skills - Strong verbal and written skills - Highly motivated and ability to work independently - Ability to respond to changing demands **Desirable** - Financial management and analysis skills ### Knowledge **Essential** - Educated to HNC/Equivalent Diploma/equivalent experience - GCSE Maths & English - Track record of significant continuous professional and management development ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of staff supervision/ staff management including recruitment/ retention /appraisal /first line disciplinary and knowledge of budget management issues - Have significantly contributed to meeting operational objectives - Experience of delivering Administrative and Clerical Services **Desirable** - Have significantly contributed to meeting strategic objectives ## Documents - [frf (pdf, 168.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10731583) - [jd asm (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672917) - [asm person specification (pdf, 58.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672918) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.