Assistant / Executive Assistant to CEO - Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Enherts-TR)

Description

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months maternity cover.

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.

Communicate with tact, understanding and discretion with members of the public/patients/carers when dealing with enquiries/complaints.
Respond to all queries, correspondence, and telephone calls in a timely and professional manner.

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.

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

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.

Qualifications/Training
Able to demonstrate a good level of general education to Grade C and above GCSE level in Mathematics and English or equivalent
NVQ Level 3 Administration qualification or equivalent
Advanced IT Skills in MS Office, including MS Outlook & MS Teams
Word, internet, Excel, Y PowerPoint, MS Outlook & MS Teams
Experience of analysing and presenting data
Ability to complete tasks and projects on time and to a high standard, demonstrating a can-do attitude
Ability to provide evidence of full COVID-19 vaccination status or evidence of formal medical exemption through the NHS Covid Pass process
Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community.

We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve.

In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life.

We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert.

If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments
net Telephone number Additional information For informal chats, please contact Terri Field, Executive Assistant, on or
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