Business Support Officer - London, United Kingdom - NHS England

NHS England
NHS England
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Are you passionate about improving the lives of cancer patients? Do you want to help the national delivery of high quality personalised cancer care and support? Working in the NHS Cancer Programme, that's exactly what you'll do.

The NHS Cancer Programme sets the agenda for cancer services in England.

Working with patients, clinicians, charities and across the public sector, our aim is to reduce preventable cancers, diagnose cancer earlier, increase survival and improve the quality of life and experience for cancer patients.

We develop national policy and strategy, and work with our Cancer Alliances across the country to transform services for patients.

This is an exciting time for the NHS Cancer Programme.

We face three main challenges in the coming year:

completing the job of recovery following the coronavirus pandemic; using this as a platform to drive improvements in performance against the cancer waiting times standards; and, accelerating our work to implement our Long Term Plan commitments for cancer.

You will be instrumental in delivering on our ambition to diagnose three in four cancers at an early stage so that even more people survive cancer in the future.

Are you the right person for the job?


We're looking an experienced PA or executive assistant who will provide support to the two Directors of the Cancer Programme.

The Programme Management Office (PMO) is responsible for supporting projects across the NHS Cancer Programme.

This is an exciting, cross-cutting team that is central to ensuring that all our projects are initiated and monitored according to the organisational standards.

We offer a business management service to the programme, providing secretariat and admin support to teams as necessary.

This position is fixed-term until the end of September 2023 in the first instance.

The Cancer Programme Team takes its responsibility to promote equality and diversity seriously. We respect colleagues from different backgrounds and embrace different cultural preferences in everything we do.

Primary responsibilities

  • Provide diary management and other support to the two Cancer Programme Directors.
  • Provide secretariat to meetings and Boards, prepare reports, agendas, minutes, statistics and other similar documents using a variety of software packages.
  • Support the delivery of events with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Arrange meetings, including room bookings, the preparation and circulation of agendas, ensuring attendees receive accurate and timely information about arrangements and taking minutes.
  • Other activities commensurate with the banding.
  • Experience of providing senior administrative support, including diary management.
  • An ability to work autonomously in a dynamic environment is essential, as you will be working in a rapidly changing context with multiple priorities.
  • Experience in communications and stakeholder management, including drafting and preparation of correspondence, reports and briefing papers.
  • Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
  • Excellent administrative skills, including ability to construct clear, grammatically correct letters and reports, at high standard of presentation.
  • Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
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