Executive Assistant | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6205385/361-COR-6205385 |
Summary
We are recruiting for an Executive Assistant who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months maternity cover. You will be expected to support the Chief Executive and Chief Nurse.
This will include secretarial, administrative, and clerical support such as diary management, preparing presentations, meeting management including agenda preparation, note/minute taking and production of action plans.
Our Values areInclude,Respect andImprove. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Recognise the importance, confidential and sensitivity of issues and at all times act using the utmost discretion.
Communicate with tact, understanding and discretion with members of the public/patients/carers when dealing with enquiries/complaints.
Act as first point of contact for all communications and deal with all such communications appropriately, including exchange of sensitive information.
Respond to all queries, correspondence, and telephone calls in a timely and professional manner.
Initiate action where possible and report progress as appropriate.
Employ judgement to ensure that messages and actions are prioritised and brought to the attention of the senior management team with any relevant supporting information.
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.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024