Child Death Review Administrator - 22.5 hpw

Job overview

Closing Date:  26th April 2026.

Shortlisting to commence 27th April 2026.

Interview expected to take place: W/C 4th May 2026.

Due to current Home Office Guidelines, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

Previous applicants need not apply.

The Bradford Child Death Review process (CDR/CDOP) requires a competent administrator to join a small, friendly and efficient team who work closely to manage the child death review process. The post holder will need to collate data on each child, meet deadlines, and maintain standards relating to administrative processes. They will be expected to work without direct supervision at times, whilst dealing with material, the content of which will require a very high degree of emotional resilience and confidentiality at all times. This post will require an individual with well-developed interpersonal skills who enjoys working as a team member as well as independently.

There is a degree of unpredictability of service need and the post holder must be adaptable and flexible.

Since 1st April 2008 there has been a legal requirement that Child Death Review Process conducts a review for all child deaths aged 0-17 years who reside in their area.

With the purpose to look at the circumstances around the child and determine what can be learned to prevent further deaths and better support families and communities affected by the death of a child.

Main duties of the job

• Utilise excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with a wide range of people at all levels and external agencies.
• Open all descriptions of mail and distribute/dispatch accordingly, ensuring appropriate action is taken with high priority material.
• Daily use of eCDOP: a web-based tool used in the management of the child death process. This will involve the processing of child death notifications, requesting information from a variety of agencies requiring influence and tenacity; liaising with QES who host eCDOP regarding updates: fixing user problems and making suggestions for improvement. Ad-hoc training of users may also be required.
• General administrative duties with administrative support for the arrangement of meetings, taking minutes, general email and telephone enquiries, rota preparation and distribution.
• Assist in the preparation and production of reports for the CDOP as required.
• Compilation of the CDOP newsletter and update of the CDOP website.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further, in-depth information relating to this role.