Executive Business Assistant to Chief Executive

Job summary

Full time (Part-time working of minimum of 4 days a week will be considered)

Gloucestershire Health and Care is seeking an enthusiastic colleague to join the team as Executive Business Assistant to provide proactive, trusted and highly confidential support to our Chief Executive across the range of their responsibilities.

You will coordinate business activities, manage high level meetings and events, handle complex correspondence, prepare briefings and analysis, and undertake projects and research to ensure the Chief Executive's priorities are delivered effectively. The role requires a personable, professional candidate who can work effectively with colleagues at all levels, whilst holding overall responsibility for the running of the CEO's office.

You will bring intelligent analysis to situations and issues, excellent writing skills and enjoy the challenge of dealing with multiple conflicting priorities in limited time. In return, you will gain a unique insight into a broad range of operational, strategic and policy issues and work within a friendly and ambitious team.

Please note that interviews for this role will be held on 22nd December.

Main duties of the job

The Executive Business Assistant will support the Chief Executive as they lead the Trust, which covers mental health, physical health and learning difficulties across Gloucestershire, with a workforce in excess of 5,000.The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate a calm, positive and flexible approach to their work and will be an enthusiastic, hard-working team player.

The role requires someone with excellent communication and organisational skills, who is self-motivated to manage their own workload on a day-to-day basis and prioritise work to meet deadlines.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Edward Jenner Court

1010 Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park

Brockworth

GL3 4AW

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Edward Jenner Court

1010 Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park

Brockworth

GL3 4AW

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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