Executive Support Team Leader

Posting date:	03 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	02 April 2026
Location:	Bolton, BL1 1RU
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75790238

Summary

Grade: I scp 31 £41,771 to scp 35 £46,142
Contract: Permanent
Essential Qualification: Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role
Are you ready to take up an excellent opportunity at Bolton Council, as Executive Support Team Leader? You’ll be leading a strong team of Personal Assistants who provide support to the senior leadership of the organisation. It’s a wonderful chance to help deliver a high level of efficiency to the organisation, which in turn will contribute to the service the Council provides across the borough of Bolton.

You will take up the management of 13 or so Personal Assistants, providing guidance to and development of the team to underpin their work, while deploying standardised processes and procedures to facilitate consistent and high-quality service. You’ll work with the team to identify and secure ways of achieving proactivity in their executive support, while being a catalyst for ongoing continual improvement.

By virtue of the job, you’ll become familiar with a wide range of activity across all the Council’s directorates, liaising with individuals at all levels of the organisation. There will be opportunity to implement innovative approaches to problem solving and driving improvement in the Council.

The role reports to the Deputy Director of the Corporate Resources directorate.

This fantastic job will be advertised for a two-week period, but Bolton Council reserves the right to close the advertising before the end of this period, should any strong applications be received earlier in the process. We encourage candidates to apply at the earliest opportunity.

About You
You may come from either a public or private sector background, but either way you will have amassed strong team management experience to lead and develop a large and accomplished team. You’re likely to be driven by a deep sense of customer service and have an insatiable appetite to achieve the right outcomes while seeing your team flourish.

You will be exceptionally organised and are a natural Completer-Finisher. You’re bound to be at home with looking for new ways of work to help the team and the delivery of their executive support. Part of this will translate into you being comfortable with applying technology, taking a Digital-oriented approach, while maintaining and fostering a culture of value-added support from the Personal Assistants.

All in all, you are likely to be a superb team player, motivated by helping and seeing the colleagues around you achieving success, and more broadly by making a significant contribution to Bolton Council.

You will need proven success at team leadership and development, having a natural gift to engage, inspire and support your team as well as experience of working as a Personal Assistant and/or leading a Personal Assistant, Executive Support or similar team. You will have excellent communication and influencing skills, at all levels of the organisation and be results-driven and innately inclined to seek and realise improvements. You should also have team spirit, tenacity, and a focus on delivery!

About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk

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