Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Divisional Personal Assistant, GSACT

The closing date is 09 April 2026

Job summary

To provide comprehensive confidential and professional administrative and secretarial service to the Divisional Director, Divisional Chief Nurse and Associate Director of Operations for the GSACT Division.

Ensuring that all work is dealt with promptly and efficiently, the role will require you to work independently on tasks but support will the given where needed.

There will be a high degree of sensitivity and confidentiality required.

Supporting the delivery of Divisional projects and providing secretarial support to the Divisional and Speciality Governance Meetings with minute taking and action logs.

Main duties of the job

Diary management and arranging of meetings.

Management of incoming and outgoing written/email correspondence.

Management of telephone calls and prompt message handling.

Minute taking and circulation of minutes and all relevant documentation.

Production of Divisional Newsletter.

About us

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

  • Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
  • On-site Nurseries
  • On-site staff cafes
  • On-site parking
  • Support in career development
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:www.asph-careers.org

Details

Date posted

26 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,860 to £31,671 a year pa, inc. HCAS, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

323-AC8046-SK

Job locations

Ashford & St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey

KT16 0PZ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Developing internal relationships with all the Management Team, Triumvirate and all Clinical Staff.

Building good working relationship across the Trust to ensure the smooth sharing of all correspondence/documentation between divisions.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Developing internal relationships with all the Management Team, Triumvirate and all Clinical Staff.

Building good working relationship across the Trust to ensure the smooth sharing of all correspondence/documentation between divisions.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • GSCE English and Maths
  • Knowledge of Word, Outlook, Excel

Desirable

  • Touch typing

Interview

Essential

  • Powerpoint
  • Diary Management

Desirable

  • Previous Personal Assistant Experience
Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • GSCE English and Maths
  • Knowledge of Word, Outlook, Excel

Desirable

  • Touch typing

Interview

Essential

  • Powerpoint
  • Diary Management

Desirable

  • Previous Personal Assistant Experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashford & St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey

KT16 0PZ


Employer's website

https://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashford & St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey

KT16 0PZ


Employer's website

https://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Quality Governance Facilitator

Caroline Drinkall

caroline.drinkall@nhs.net

01932722601

Details

Date posted

26 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,860 to £31,671 a year pa, inc. HCAS, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

323-AC8046-SK

Job locations

Ashford & St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey

KT16 0PZ


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