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Personal Assistant to Hospital Director

Personal Assistant

Ipswich Hospital | Administration | Permanent contract | Full time

Up to £32,791.00 per annum dependent on experience

37.5 hours per week


As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we offer a fantastic home for your career. And we’ll give you the freedom to work autonomously, making full use of your expertise. Here’s where you bring your drive, passion and high standards to help shape the health of the nation.


Our Hospital Director currently has an opportunity for a Personal Assistant. Join us and we’ll support you to be your best.


As the Personal Assistant you will:

  • Provide high-quality administrative and organisational support to the Hospital Director and wider leadership team.
  • Manage consultant practising privileges and associated governance processes.
  • Coordinate consultant onboarding from initial enquiry through to successful commencement of practice within the hospital.
  • Build effective working relationships with consultants and support consultant engagement activities.
  • Support the hospital's patient experience processes
  • Analyse and collate operational information, producing accurate reports, presentations and management information.
  • Arrange and support key meetings and committees, including agenda preparation, minute-taking and follow-up of actions.
  • Support the transition to more efficient digital ways of working, helping to streamline administrative processes, improve data management and reduce reliance on paper-based systems.
  • Review and maintain electronic records, databases and consultant information to ensure accuracy, compliance and accessibility.
  • Liaise with consultants, patients and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure activities are delivered professionally and efficiently.
  • Manage diary commitments and meeting schedules as required.
  • Support special projects and operational improvement initiatives across the hospital.


The Person


To succeed as the Personal Assistant, you will need:

  • Significant experience in an administrative, coordination, executive support or healthcare administration role.
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines.
  • Excellent Microsoft 365 skills, including Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Confidence communicating with senior stakeholders, consultants, patients and colleagues.
  • A proactive, solution-focused approach with the ability to work independently and use initiative.
  • Excellent attention to detail and the ability to maintain accurate records.
  • A commitment to continuous improvement and a genuine interest in finding more efficient ways of working.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Feel your best with emotional wellbeing support, gym membership, private healthcare, expert financial advice and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.


Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital

Set in over 19 acres of private woodland, Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital is a haven of tranquillity and repose. Only private patients are treated at Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital, making us the only purely private hospital in East Anglia and the first within the Nuffield Health Hospitals group. We are currently registered with the Care Quality Commission for 60 beds, with areas of specialty in cataract, cosmetic, gynaecology, imaging & radiology, orthopaedics and urology & men's health Ipswich has a CQC (Care Quality Commission) rating of good.


Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.


If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.


It starts with you. 

Location

Ipswich - Suffolk

Contract type

Permanent

Reference

JR0102767

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Rewards & Benefits

Helping you be and feel your best.

Annual Leave

25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.

Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan

Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.

*eligibility criteria applies.

Financial Wellbeing

A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.

Cycle to Work Scheme

Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.

Gym Membership

Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.

Online GP

Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.

Relevant Stories

Sharing memorable experiences.

Plan your commute

Ipswich - Suffolk

Hints & Tips

Help with your application.

Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.

Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview. 

CV

Think about the skills and qualities asked for in the job description and show how you’ve applied those same skills and qualities in other roles. Focus on the things that will make us want to see more of you.

Covering email

Your CV will contain details about why you’d be a good fit for the role, but it’s well worth adding a short, snappy paragraph pulling out the two or three most compelling reasons as to why you’d be perfect for the job in your covering email..

Video interview

The video interview lasts 15-20 minutes if you get to this stage. On the day, look the part, be aware of your surroundings and practice your answers to feel prepared. Most of all, relax and be yourself.

DBS Checks

Some of our roles require a DBS check and they are processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of the recruitment process. These checks are to assist employers in making safer recruitment decisions. However, a check is just one part of robust recruitment practice.

Documents

You could be asked to provide proof of vaccinations as part of our Occupational Health pre-employment screening. We know it can be time consuming to get this information if you don’t already have it to hand, so we encourage you to start preparing this information to avoid any delays to the onboarding process.

Your current studies

If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact psc@nuffieldhealth.com

Feedback on applications

Due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to provide individual feedback from an inital application.

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