Administrative Officer for the Fracture Liaison Service

This post is a Fixed Term/ Secondment until 30/11/2026. If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, hardworking and organised individual to be a part of the Fracture Liaison service . You will become a core member of staff within a friendly and supportive Team, enabling the promotion of the Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) throughout the Health Board. The Post Holder will play a key role in helping the organisation drive forward improvements in quality and the care that our patients receive.

The Fracture Liaison service is a small team with offices located at each of the County's. The Team offers a friendly and supportive environment and we meet regularly to discuss and share ideas. This is an exiting opportunity to shape this new service in the Health Board., The post holder will work independently being responsible for assisting the department in general administration and secretarial duties ensuring a professional and confidential service at all times. The post holder will also support appropriate additional roles to the Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) in the Unscheduled Care Directorate at Withybush Hospital and have a key role in providing a link between FLS practitioners, wards, departments, GPs and community staff. You will also be a point of contact for patients and their carer's.The role requires someone who is able to deal with first line enquiries, communicating and welcoming into the department all levels of personnel within defined parameters, both internal and external, via phone, e-mail and face to face. They will also need to be able to judge when they need to pass on queries and information to colleagues for more complex enquiries.The post holder is required to work on their own initiative, sometimes unsupervised and will be
flexible and adaptable in their role to the needs of the serviceThe role may involve travelling to and working across other sites in support of service delivery.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services to almost 400,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest.

Five community hospitals: Amman Valley Hospital and Llandovery Hospital in Carmarthenshire, Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire.

Two integrated care centres (Aberaeron and Cardigan, Ceredigion.

Community facilities, including:

48 General Practices (GP surgeries), 49 Dental Practices, 98 Community Pharmacies (chemists), 44 General Ophthalmic Practices (including eye health and low vision services), 38 sites providing mental health and learning disability services, care within your own homes.

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.