Location
Carlisle, England
Salary
£28,392 - £31,157 Per annum
Profession
Business support manager
Grade
Band 4
Deadline
28 Oct 2026
Contract Type
12 months (Fixed term)
Posted Date
14 Oct 2026
Medical Protection — the side of locally employed doctors from £83

Job requirements

Essential

21 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Skills

    Excellent communication skills – verbal and written

  • Skills

    Very accurate audio typing/word processing skills

  • Skills

    Ability to work as part of a team and also alone

  • Skills

    Excellent organisational skills

  • Skills

    Ability to deal compassionately and professionally with clientele and relatives under stressful circumstances

  • Skills

    Experience of dealing with difficult and/or distressed patients and containing anxiety

  • Skills

    Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure

  • Skills

    Ability to respond appropriately to telephone and other issues with tact, diplomacy and discretion

  • Skills

    Needs to be able to respond to unpredictable work patterns

  • Skills

    Able to prioritise workload

  • Skills

    Highly organised and efficient, capacity to work effectively under pressure and produce quality work to deadlines

  • Skills

    Must be adaptable and open to change

  • Experience

    Extensive secretarial skills and competencies

  • Experience

    Ability to work within a range of settings with a wide range of Trust personnel

  • Experience

    Good knowledge of Microsoft applications and the internet

  • Experience

    Thorough knowledge and understanding of all secretarial and office management duties

  • Experience

    Ability to take minutes of meetings

  • Experience

    Understanding of confidentiality issues

  • Experience

    Knowledge of medical terminology

  • Qualifications

    Minimum GCSE qualification in English Language or equivalent

  • Qualifications

    NVQ Level 4 administration or relevant experience

Desirable

4 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Experience

    Audiotyping

  • Experience

    Experience of working within a health setting

  • Experience

    Experience working with Rio

  • Qualifications

    Advanced ECDL or MOST

Job overview

The Business Support Team Leader will manage the provision of an efficient, effective and high quality administrative and clerical service to support health and social care professionals and service users/patients within a community based team. To provide a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to senior medical staff and senior management staff.

The role will report to a Business Support Manager, who has overall responsibility for an administrative hub of services. The teams that the Team Leader would be responsible for may include those supporting:

  • A defined community based service (locality or district wide in nature)
  • Children Service Specialist Services
  • Children Services Universal Services.
  • Children Services Senior Manager Team

Main duties of the job

  • Lead and motivate a team within an admin hub environment to deliver administrative support to a range of locality based clinical services/ single point of access service / reception / switchboard services as defined in role objectives.
  • Manage the team’s performance and deliver activity within agreed standard operating procedure and to defined quality standards.
  • Develop and implement standardised approaches to administrative work within the area of responsibility
  • Provide line management supervision and guidance to the Senior Assistants and the Assistants.
  • In undertaking the role the post holder will be required to initiate own tasks and prioritise own workload.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £20.00 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £26.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £41.00 + administration cost of £6.50 = £47.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Excellent opportunities for development*

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Important Information

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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This advert is for Business Support Team Leader with North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust in Carlisle, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Business support manager role. The advertised salary is £28,392 - £31,157 Per annum. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 28 Oct 2026.

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