Personal Assistant to Group Executive Director

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Trust Headquarters for a Personal Assistant to Group Executive Director. The post holder is responsible for ensuring the high level effective management of the Executive Directors office on a day-to-day basis.

The post holder will be expected to use a significant amount of initiative and discretion in the discharge of all duties and will be expected to work without direct supervision, thus ensuring efficiency via proactive liaison with colleagues and external bodies.

They will support the smooth running of the communications and diary management of the Directors. They will support the rest of the Directors PAs , and ensure provision of professional, timely, effective, and efficient administrative support . The post holder must be confident in attending high level meetings and possess the ability to produce an excellent standard of minutes from these meetings.

Full time hours available., The Directors have busy roles that give them less personal time to handle their own post, emails, deal with enquiries and respond to approaches from people inside and outside the organisation. These will be handled by the post holder, who has to deal with sensitive, urgent and important issues on a daily basis, making judgments many times each day on how issues should be handled.

This requires the post holder to ensure they keep up to date with key NHS policy developments and all key current issues and work with which the trust is involved. The post holder must be able to ensure he/she is fully informed of these areas and what is going on in the Trust.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring the effective management of the office on a day-to-day basis. They will support the smooth running of all meetings and committees through the provision of professional, timely, effective, and efficient committee service and administrative support to the Directors Office

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust is situated in the heart of the North East, close to the historic and cultural cities of Newcastle and Durham. The area offers excellent leisure, sport and shopping facilities with the Northumbria coast and countryside nearby. There are excellent transport links regionally.

The Trust also offers key additional benefits such as onsite childcare facilities, cycle to work schemes, discounted travel options and health and well being initiatives.