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Private Secretary
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £44,852.00 i £50,472.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £44852.00 - £50472.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, E14 5EA |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | K9919-25-0262 |
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The Private Secretary is a pivotal and demanding role within the organisation, helping to advise the principal and deliver the Agencys priorities. They will lead on a portfolio of areas within the Private Office to support the principal, their senior leadership team, and colleagues across the group. This will involve commissioning and reviewing advice and briefing, ensuring that the principals priorities are being taken forward, and that these are aligned to the Agencys and Ministers priorities. This role has line management responsibility for executive support/diary manager, as well as supporting the effective running of the office and the leadership of the business area. The Vaccine and Countermeasures Delivery teams within CVCD play a critical role in delivering UKHSA's mission to protect and improve public health. These teams oversee the supply and delivery of a comprehensive portfolio of life-saving vaccines, countermeasures and immunisation products across the UK, spanning children's, adults', rapid response and seasonal programmes. Drawing on expertise from diverse disciplines, the teams ensure the seamless operational execution and optimal supply of regulated pharmaceutical products while adhering to GDP best practices and maintaining the resilience of these essential public health initiatives. By coordinating and supporting the relevant internal and external workstreams across the UK, the team ensures all nations (where appropriate) are effectively represented and operationally prepared. This includes ensuring supply reaches the right place, at the right time, and in the right volumes, while supporting the mobilisation of those supplies into impactful delivery campaigns. Through extensive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, clinical experts, and data analysts, the team drives continual improvement, fosters knowledge-sharing, and ensures better patient outcomesall while delivering value for taxpayers. Essential criteria: The ability to work at pace on a range of competing priorities, whilst remaining calm under pressure and demonstrating resilience. The ability to work flexibly and quickly develop expertise on new policy areas and exercise judgement often working with incomplete or inconclusive information and data. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and motivate people at all levels, building trust with stakeholders to achieve goals. A proven track record of making a strong personal impact, demonstrating effectiveness and credibility to operate at a senior level. Ability to grasp new challenges and concepts at pace. Desirable criteria We will only assess on desirable criteria in the event of a strong field of candidates and as a second stage after essential criteria have been considered. Experience of working in Private Office or executive assistant in the public or private sector Selection ProcessDetails: This vacancy is using SuccessProfiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. Stage 1:Application& Sift You willbe requiredto complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 5 essentialcriteria,and this will be in the form ofa: Application form(Employer/ Activity history section on the application) 1000 word supporting statement This should outline how your skills,experience,andknowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria. TheApplication formand Statement of Suitability will be markedtogether. Longlisting: In the event ofa large number ofapplications we willlonglistinto 3 piles of: Meets all essential criteria Meets some essential criteria Meets no essential criteria Candidates who meet all essential criteria and meet some essential will be shortlisted. Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and motivate people at all levels, building trust with stakeholders to achieve goals If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment Please do not exceed 1000words. We will not consider any words over and above this number. Feedback will not be provided at this stage. Stage 2: Interview (success profiles) You will be invited to a (single) remote interview. Behaviours will be tested at interview. Interviews will be held week commencing 28th July, please note this date is subject to change. The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be: Delivering at Pace Managing a Quality Service Communicating and Influencing Making Effective Decisions Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Eligibility Criteria Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (includingby definition internalapplicants). Location This role is being offered as hybrid working based at our Canary Wharf office. We offergreat flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month). Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC). Additionally some work travel may be required to support the Director. Security Clearance Level Requirement Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates will require Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) as a minimum with willingness and capability to work towards Security Check (SC). You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting at this higher level and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.