Band 5 Executive Assistant

Job summary

Provide high level, comprehensive business and administrative support for Trust Chair, Non Executive Directors and Executive Directors to manage the business and administrative function for other designated managers of the Directorate as directed, ensuring a systematic and effective service is delivered.

To be responsible for specific project work as required by the Trust Chair / Director and the Directorate.

To provide a key link between the Trust Chair / Director and his/her direct reports, ensuring that programmes of work are co-ordinated effectively, deadlines are met and that corporate and team working develops throughout the directorate.

Main duties of the job

Communicate effectively, confidently and confidentially with all internal and external personnel, including Executive Teams, MPs, ICBs, external organisations and the wider healthcare economy, on a face-to-face basis, by telephone, letter and electronically.

Prioritise all correspondence, emails and enquiries and ensure the Trust Chair / Director is made aware of matters requiring immediate attention. Where appropriate, initiate actions demonstrating a high level of judgement around confidentiality and priorities, without reference to the Director.

Arrange meetings, appointments, travel (local and foreign) and organise events for the Trust Chair / Director.

Be responsible for developing and maintaining a database for members of staff who directly report to the Trust Chair / Director for sickness and absence returns. Ensure that deadlines are achieved for completion of monthly returns for staff members to Payroll Department.

Create and maintain personal staff files for the Trust Chair / Director's Direct Reports ensuring confidentiality at all times.

Organise/administer Recruitment and Selections procedures, appointments, employee detail changes, notification to payroll and induction arrangements.

About us

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Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.