Executive Assistant to Chief Executive and Chair

Are you a highly experienced Executive Assistantworking at executive level post? Or are you a Personal Assistant/Secretary looking for a challenge and potentially the chance to develop your career within the corporate field?

University Hospitals Dorset Foundation Trust is offering a fantastic opportunity to use and further develop your skills and experience to work at the heart of a well-respected NHS organisation. Our Chief Executive, is seeking an exceptional individual to be part of the Executive Services team, overseeing the day-to-day corporate business of the organisation. You'll need to be a very organised, motivated, diligent and resilient individual, who is able to provide a high quality, efficient administrative and secretarial service to the Chair and Chief Executive of the Trust. The role involves exposure to corporate business and some high-level operations, as well as working within a broader team providing support to our Executives and senior colleagues.

Given the importance of this role in interfacing with the public and senior partners across the Dorset health and social care system, we are looking for an individual that will be a great ambassador for our Trust, consistently demonstrating our core values of being caring, one team, listening to understand, open & honest, always improving and inclusive., The Trust consists of three main sites - The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Christchurch Hospital & Poole Hospital. The Executive Assistant will work across our two main sites at Bournemouth and Poole with very occasional need to visit other sites. The post holder will be supported on a day-to-day basis by the Business Manager to the CEO and Chair who also line manages the post. The seasoned senior Executive Assistants work as a team to support each other and will be on hand to onboard and support the new incumbent.

This is a full time vacancy (37.5 hours per week) that broadly needs to cover office hours (08:30 - 16:30, Monday to Friday), with some element of flexible working. We are looking for the successful candidate to start at the earliest opportunity.

Base Location: Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospital. It is anticipated that the majority of the hours will be worked on site. There is some flexibility around working hours but the role requires daily contact with the Chief Executive to manage the changing nature of the work.

Interview date: TBC

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme

In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview