Personal Assistant (PA) for Child Health Team

Job summary

The Child Health service at Ipswich Hospital are looking for a creative, dynamic individual who has previous experience of working as a Personal Assistant and is able to bring their knowledge, skill and experience to support the Management Team.

You will be highly organised, practical, reliable and efficient and will have a flexible approach to the role; working on your own initiative as well as working effectively as part of the wider team. Duties will include proactive forward planning, fielding emails and telephone calls, management of calendars, meeting management (agenda setting, distribution of paperwork according to an established timetable, high quality minute taking and follow-up of actions), managing nurses roster for senior nursing team.

To be successful in this challenging but rewarding role, you will thrive under pressure, have the drive and courage to solve problems and the ability to prioritise a busy workload. The post holder will be diplomatic with highly developed communication skills, the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders and will have proven IT experience.

This is fixed term/secondment post until 31st May 2026

Main duties of the job

To provide an effective, comprehensive personal assistant service to the Children's Matron, Children's ward and Neonatal Unit senior nursing teams and operations team.

Dealing on a regular basis with confidential and, sensitive information relating to staff and services.

Provide a comprehensive, high quality business support service for the Child Health management team, including typing/word processing of letters, minutes, reports and other routine correspondence, using own initiative.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ipswich Hospital

Ipswich

IP4 5PD

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ipswich Hospital

Ipswich

IP4 5PD

Employer's website

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

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