Job Description
Are you an innovative and experienced Executive Assistant, who is looking for the next step in their career? If so, East and North Herts NHS trust may have the role you have been looking for.
The Trust is recruiting a full time Executive Assistant to provide comprehensive support our Executive Team. The role includes diary management, handling correspondence and day-to-day requests into the office, administration for the Executive Team meetings, executive project support and stakeholder management.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
The successful candidate will be a skilled communicator who prioritises their time efficiently, with the intuition to anticipate the needs of their Executive Director and the discipline to work independently and at pace.
They will demonstrate a customer service approach and have personal credibility to inspire confidence in colleagues and external stakeholders.
Candidates must have experience of working in business administration and significant experience working as an executive/personal assistant to a Director of a large organisation.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder.
Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.