Medical and Research Team Administrator

Medical and Research Team Administrator

St Margaret's Hospice Care offers a part time, permanent role for a Medical and Research Team Administrator based in Taunton. The position requires 15 hours per week and offers a competitive salary of £11,547.72 per annum.

What you will do

Provide professional, efficient and confidential administration and coordinated support to the medical and research team at the Taunton site. Responsibilities include secretarial tasks, diary management, operational support, general administration, onboarding of new staff and medical trainees, and contributing to process improvement.

Your day to day duties will involve:

• Organising bookings, training sessions, courses, meetings and associated logistics for the medical team, including rota management.
• Supporting onboarding, induction and exit processes for clinical staff and medical student placements.
• Assisting with quality improvement and research activities of the Senior medical team/Head of Research by providing administrative support.
• Preparing agendas, taking minutes and coordinating follow up actions for meetings chaired by the medical team.

Key skills required

• Ability to create and manage spreadsheets for audits, data tracking and reporting.
• Proficiency in Excel functions to analyse and interpret data for decision making.
• Skill in formatting and preparing documents using Microsoft Office tools.
• Experience and thorough understanding of Microsoft Teams.
• Develop templates and improve administrative processes to enhance efficiency and consistency.
• Accurate and meticulous record keeping.

Benefits

• Holiday entitlement
  • 33 days holiday including bank holidays, rising to 35 days after 1 year, increasing with length of service (pro rata if part time).
  • Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice.
  • Ability to buy and sell annual leave.
• Pension scheme
  • NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme.
  • Non NHS employees receive 6% employer and 5% employee contribution.
• Award winning Employee Assistance Programme
  • Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non emergency care.
  • Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP consultations for employees, their partners and dependent children, plus expert case management.
  • Confidential and free 24 hour Employee Assistance.
  • Counselling and support services.
  • Legal, financial and medical information and advice.
• Additional benefits
  • Life assurance cover - 2 salary.
  • Health cash plans - cashback on a range of health benefits.
  • Blue Light discount card.
  • Enhanced maternity leave.
  • Excellent learning and development opportunities.
  • Free on site parking in Yeovil and Taunton.
  • Volunteering and fundraising opportunities.
• Eligibility criteria applies.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Closing date

8 July 2026